Hazard & Exposure Risk Hotspot
Flood Damage Ratio (100-year return period GIRI) Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI-12 2024) Intensity of violence Surrounding violence Persistence of violence Conflict actors Average proportion agriculture area Economic deprivation Educational vulnerability Health vulnerability Economic inequality Hunger Gender inequality Institutional vulnerability Political system vulnerability Ethnic marginalization Total population Female population Uprooted people Dependent population Soil degradation Biodiversity loss Water stress Agricultural dependence on rainfall
Climate or Conflict:
Flood 100 year return periods
Vulnerability:
Average proportion agriculture area
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Understanding risk map (bivariate map)

Risk maps are a new way to visualize and combine hazard and exposure data. It allows you to map two patterns within a single map and help you see if two things are related.

This is done using a technique known as bivariate choropleth mapping, where two color ramps combine into a hexagons-grid legend showing all pattern combinations.

When making a bivariate choropleth map, the goal is to show a sequence of two variables and their combinations.

How to read the map

  • The darkest brown values show where high values of both population density and hazard.
  • The darkest red values show where hazard areas, but less likely to have people.
  • The darkest green values show where there is a high amount of population density, but fewer people live in hazard areas.