The federal environmental authority. It is responsible for ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably, that the public is protected against natural hazards, and that the environment is protected from unacceptable adverse impacts.

371 datasets found

  • Forest fire danger

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Environment

    The FOEN's forest fire danger warning contains the general daily forest fire danger based on meteorological data and the resulting forest fire indices.

    Last updated: December 18, 2025

    • SPARQL
    • HTML
  • Current drought hazard level

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The drought warning map shows the current drought hazard (issued at levels 1, 2 and 4) for all regions of Switzerland. The hazard level results from a weekly expert assessment of...

    Last updated: November 25, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • API
    • HTML
    • water-geographic
    • lake
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • agriculture
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Current drought situation in Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the combined drought index for each region. This index summarises in one value the various factors affecting drought: precipitation, modelled soil moisture and...

    Last updated: November 25, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • API
    • HTML
    • lake
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • agriculture
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 100 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • air-movement
    • wind
    • storm
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 300 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • air-movement
    • wind
    • storm
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 300 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • natural-risk
    • wind
    • air-movement
    • storm
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 30 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • storm
    • wind
    • air-movement
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 50 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • wind
    • storm
    • air-movement
    • natural-risk
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 100 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • air-movement
    • storm
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • wind
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 50 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • air-movement
    • storm
    • wind
    • natural-risk
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 30 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • natural-risk
    • air-movement
    • wind
    • storm
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Geodatenmodell und Dokumentation "Auengebiete_V1_2"

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Minimales Geodatenmodell und Dokumentation zum Geobasisdatensatz „Bundesinventar der Auengebiete von nationaler Bedeutung“, Identifikator 19.1. Der Katalog wird auch verlinkt....

    Last updated: July 11, 2022

    • INTERLIS
    • XML
    • PDF
    • geodata-model
    • minimum-geodata-model-mgdm
    • model-documentation
    • federal-inventory
    • biodiversity
  • Forest fire prevention measures

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Environment

    Contains the forest fire prevention measures currently in force in the cantons.

    Last updated: December 17, 2025

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    • HTML
  • Nighttime road traffic noise exposure

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the nighttime road traffic noise to which the population is exposed. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE). The Swiss road network included in...

    Last updated: December 31, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • noise-abatement
    • noise-immission
    • noise-effect
    • traffic-noise
    • noise-level
    • noise
    • noise-pollutant
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Exceedance of critical loads for nitrogen

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Excessive deposition of reactive nitrogen compounds (NO₂, NO₃⁻, HNO₃, NH₃, NH₄⁺) causes eutrophication (over-fertilisation) of sensitive ecosystems, contributes to soil...

    Last updated: August 15, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • air
    • pollutant
    • air-pollutant
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • Daytime road traffic noise exposure

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the daytime road traffic noise to which the population is exposed. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE). The Swiss road network included in...

    Last updated: December 31, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • noise-pollutant
    • noise-abatement
    • noise
    • traffic-noise
    • noise-effect
    • noise-immission
    • noise-level
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Daytime railway noise exposure

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the daytime railway noise to which the population is exposed. The noise calculation is based on emission data for 2021 as reported in the railway noise register as...

    Last updated: December 31, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • e-geoch
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • traffic-noise
    • noise
    • noise-abatement
    • noise-effect
    • noise-pollutant
    • noise-immission
    • noise-level
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Nitrogen Deposition

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The time series shows the modelled total deposition of nitrogen for the years 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 in a resolution of 500m as a sum of wet, dry and gaseous...

    Last updated: August 15, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • air
    • pollutant
    • air-pollutant
    • human-health-and-safety
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • NaiS-Weiserflächen und Beobachtungspunkte SuisseNaiS

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

    Weiserflächen sind gemäss kantonalen Konzepten angelegte Untersuchungsflächen im Schutzwald. Sie sind ein Instrument der Erfolgskontrolle gemäss der BAFU-Vollzugshilfe...

    Last updated: November 24, 2024

    • WMS
    • SERVICE
    • GPKG
    • earth-observation
    • environment
    • wood
    • wms
    • protection-forest
  • Nighttime railway noise exposure

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the nighttime railway noise to which the population is exposed. The noise calculation is based on emission data for 2021 as reported in the railway noise register as...

    Last updated: December 31, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • noise-level
    • noise
    • noise-effect
    • noise-pollutant
    • noise-abatement
    • noise-immission
    • traffic-noise
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure