Zambia GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Records

GLIDE Initiative maintains GLIDE numbers, which are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters. The dataset contains registered disaster records for Zambia, allowing information to be interoperable across multiple disaster information sources. The data is available in GEOJSON and CSV formats and was last updated on 2026-06-23.

Use Cases

• Cross-reference disaster impacts across borders based on the standardized GLIDE number system.
• Map disaster event locations and types in Zambia based on the geospatial data format.
• Integrate disaster records with other structured or textual sources based on the interoperable identifier.

Strengths

• Data is structured for interoperability across major institutions like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
• Available in both GEOJSON and CSV formats, offering flexibility for different analysis tools.
• Last updated on 2026-06-23, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description does not specify the temporal coverage of the recorded events.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registered disaster records from multiple sources using the GLIDE number standard.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:58:27.093331

Geography

Zambia