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Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management.

HORA - Natural Hazard Overview and Risk Assessment Austria

Hora.gv.at (Natural Hazard Overview & Risk Assessment Austria) is an official, interactive web-GIS platform created by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management (BMLUK) and the Insurance Association (VVO) to map natural hazards nationwide. It enables citizens to conduct risk assessments for floods, earthquakes, storms, and more via a 3D-visualization tool.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Select an address or location in Austria
  • Explore hazard maps for flood, wind/storm, landslide and snow/avalanche
  • Generate a HORA-Pass summarising all hazard levels for that location
  • Use 3D visualisation to see how hazards might affect a specific building or terrain

Output

  • Interactive hazard maps and 3D visualisations
  • A location-specific HORA-Pass summarising all hazard levels
  • Reports and background documentation

Use it to

  • Assess a property's exposure to flooding, wind, landslide and snow/avalanche hazards
  • Generate a single-location hazard summary (HORA-Pass) for citizens, insurers or planners
  • Visualise hazard impacts on specific buildings or terrain in 3D
  • Support risk-assessment discussions between citizens, insurers and authorities

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

Combines official government and insurance-industry hazard data into a single national tool that citizens, not just experts, can use to check their own exposure — its 3D visualisation and one-page HORA-Pass make technical hazard information usable at property scale. It currently focuses on hazard maps and partial risk rather than climate projections, so it's best for understanding today's exposure rather than future change.

Used in

  • National hazard screening and property-level risk awareness in Austria
  • Joint public-private mapping led by BMLUK and the Austrian Insurance Association (VVO)
  • Risk communication for buildings, forestry, mountain areas and water management
  • Insurance-related risk assessment for flood, wind and snow/avalanche

Metadata

User Group
Commission services and/or AgenciesTransboundary networksNational authorities
Geographic coverage
Countries:
Austria
Spatial resolution

Local

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Adaptation sectors
BuildingsBusiness and industryDisaster Risk Reduction
Climate hazards
FloodingHeatWind / storm
Type of outputs
Maps and graphsReports and decision support
Temporality of data
Historical/past
Language
Austrian
Accessibility and usability
Moderate
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersProject-generated or processed datasetsUser-provided input data
Tool validation use
Expert validation / reputable institution

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