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Flood: Hazard Data for Disaster Risk Assessment (selected countries) | Africa (Central African Republic official open data) 568,539 rows - 1 Africa country - 2000-2018 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa TL;DR This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Central African Republic as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo. About the… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-flood-hazard-data-for-disaster-risk-assessment-selected-co-b0355.

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Flood: Hazard Data for Disaster Risk Assessment (selected countries) | Africa (Central African Republic official open data)

568,539 rows - 1 Africa country - 2000-2018 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Central African Republic as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

—Source: Flood: Hazard Data for Disaster Risk Assessment (selected countries)
—Publisher: ETH Zürich - Weather and Climate Risks
—Resource: venezuela-admin1-flood.csv
—Format: CSV
—License: CC BY 4.0
—Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
`CAF`	568,539	2000	2018	`Central African Republic`

Indicators or Resource Contents

—This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`source_record_id`	`string`	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	`8d689a02-7349-4965-b1b2-2bbd46d3c826:0`
`country_iso3`	`category`	ISO3 country code.	`CAF`
`country_name`	`category`	Country name.	`Central African Republic`
`country_name_2`	`string`	Source column.	`#country`
`region_name`	`string`	Source column.	`#adm1+name`
`latitude`	`float64`	Source column.	``
`longitude`	`float64`	Source column.	``
`aggregation`	`string`	Source column.	``
`indicator`	`string`	Source column.	`#indicator+name`
`value`	`float64`	Numeric observation value.	``
`source_period_start_year`	`Int64`	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	`2000`
`source_period_end_year`	`Int64`	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	`2018`
`source_period_label`	`category`	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	`2000-2018`
`source_provider`	`category`	Publishing organization.	`ETH Zürich - Weather and Climate Risks`
`source_dataset`	`category`	Source package title.	`Flood: Hazard Data for Disaster Risk Assessment (selected countries)`
`source_resource`	`category`	Source resource title.	`venezuela-admin1-flood.csv`
`source_package_id`	`category`	CKAN package UUID.	`46c703fe-7ba1-484b-a38c-8c53f0cf00c4`
`source_resource_id`	`category`	CKAN resource UUID.	`8d689a02-7349-4965-b1b2-2bbd46d3c826`
`source_url`	`category`	Original source resource URL.	`https://data.humdata.org/dataset/46c703fe-7ba1-484b-a38c-8c53f0cf00c4/re`
`license_id`	`category`	Source license identifier.	`cc-by`
`retrieved_at`	`category`	UTC retrieval timestamp.	`2026-08-14T23:28:30Z`

Usage

python

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-flood-hazard-data-for-disaster-risk-assessment-selected-co-b0355")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

python

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "CAF"]

Work with indicators

python

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

bibtex

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_central_african_republic_flood_hazard_data_for_disaster_risk_assessment_s_2018,
  title        = {Flood: Hazard Data for Disaster Risk Assessment (selected countries) | Africa (Central African Republic official open data)},
  author       = {ETH Zürich - Weather and Climate Risks},
  year         = {2018},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/climada-flood-dataset},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-flood-hazard-data-for-disaster-risk-assessment-selected-co-b0355}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) ETH Zürich - Weather and Climate Risks. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

Provenance: ingested 2026-08-15 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/46c703fe-7ba1-484b-a38c-8c53f0cf00c4/resource/8d689a02-7349-4965-b1b2-2bbd46d3c826/download/venezuela-admin1-flood.csv