This data contains the type of disasters reported by FEMA and the matched hazard cluster based on the classification of the Hazard Definition and Classification Review Technical Report published by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2020) Annex 6 page 72. The matching was done by Dr. Mark Macgowan and Catalina Canizares following the suggestions in the report. However, this classification is subjective and should be used taking into account this disclaimer.
Usage
data(fema_hazard_cluster_df)Format
A tibble with
- Source
This vector will contain the information of the data set from which the information came from. In this case there are two sources FEMA and GTD
- incident_type
It is the original type of disaster that the FEMA data sets reported
- hazard_cluster
It is the related sub type classification assigned by the authors according to the original incident type reported by FEMA and according to the broad classification that was already assigned