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Population & infrastructure risk exposure

Question: how many people and which facilities are exposed to a given hazard before any event?

Method (after INFORM / the MapAction–IFRC children-exposure work):

  1. Hazard mask — compare the hazard layer to the intensity threshold → 1 exposed / 0 not.

  2. Overlay population — project to a common grid and multiply by the population raster.

  3. Zonal statistics — sum exposed population and count facilities per subdivision.

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Area: Lumbini · 1 subdivisions
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1 · Hazard layer and mask

Illustrative data. Real runs would fetch the hazard raster for hazard, return_period and climate_scenario (STORM, Aqueduct, GEM, GlobFire…). Here a synthetic field stands in.

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flood · threshold 0.5 · 100-yr · current: 27.1% of grid cells exposed

2 · Overlay population

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Population (worldpop_100m, all): 250,000 · exposed: 52,154

3 · Zonal statistics per subdivision

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Results

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Map — exposed population share per subdivision

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Exposed population by subdivision

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Reproduce or adapt

Download this notebook, change the parameters in the first cell (or replace the synthetic loaders with real rasters) and re-run it with standard Jupyter tooling. The published page is a frozen artefact; the method is not.