National Damage and Event Database

Included data sets

CESARE integrates data sets from a wide range of institutions and organizations that collect data on damage and natural hazard events for different purposes and in different systems.

This page provides an overview of the current status of the data sets from the various data providers. For clarity, the providers are divided into different sections.

In October 2025, the Austrian Court of Audit published the report “Extremwetterschäden in Österreich”. This report makes recommendations on the provision of data by various actors. This overview also aims to present the current status of the implementation of these recommendations.

  • DUA = Data Use Agreement (RH recommendation on formalizing data provision for the CESARE database)
  • SPOC = Single Point of Contact (RH recommendation on establishing a central contact point in the federal states)

Data from the federal states on the disaster relief fund (Katastrophenfonds)

  • Data provision = Data on disaster damage to 1. private property, 2. municipal property, and 3. state property

  • Datenbereitstellung = Daten zu Katastrophenschäden am 1. Privatvermögen, 2. Gemeindevermögen und 3. Landesvermögen

Federal state SPOC Data provision DUA
Burgenland 🔴 🔴 🔴
Carinthia 🟢 🟡 🔴
Lower Austria 🟡 🟡 🟡
Upper Austria 🔴 🔴 🔴
Salzburg 🟢 🟡 🔴
Styria 🟢 🟡 🔴
Tyrol 🟢 🟢 🔴
Vorarlberg 🔴 🔴 🔴
Vienna 🟡 🔴 🔴

Nationwide data from various data providers

Institution / Authority Data provision DUA
WLV 🟢 🔴
HWFDB 🟢 🔴
BFW 🟢 🔴
BOKU 🟢 🔴
Lower Austria State Fire Service 🟡 🔴
LAWIS 🟢 🔴
Statistics Austria 🟡 🔴
BDA 🔴 🔴

Data from infrastructure operators and the Federal Forestry Office

Operators SPOC Data provision DUA
ÖBB 🟢 🔴 🔴
APG 🟢 🔴 🔴
ASFINAG 🟢 🔴 🔴
ÖBf 🔴 🔴 🔴

Insurance data

Data source Data provision DUA
ÖHV 🟡 🔴
VVO 🟡/🔴 🔴

Data from GeoSphere Austria

Data set Data provision
VIOLA 🟢
GEORIOS 🟢
Erdbeben 🟢

Meaning of colors and abbreviations

Status Meaning
🟢 All recommendations fulfilled / data received
🟡 Recommendations partially fulfilled / data partially received
🔴 Recommendations not implemented / no data received
Acronym Full Name
APG Austrian Power Grid
ASFINAG Austrian Motorway and Expressway Financing Corporation
BDA Federal Monuments Authority Austria
BFW Austrian Research Centre for Forests
BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
GEORIOS GIS-based data management system for documenting mass movement events in Austria (GeoSphere Austria)
HWFDB Flood Database of the BMLUK
LAWIS Avalanche Warning Service Information System
ÖBB Austrian Federal Railways
ÖBf Austrian Federal Forests
ÖHV Austrian Hail Insurance
VIOLA VIolent Observed Local Assessment (GeoSphere Austria)
VVO Austrian Insurance Association
WLV Torrent and Avalanche Control Service