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.

301 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 22, 2025

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  • 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

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    • WMTS
    • API
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    • water-geographic
    • lake
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • agriculture
    • 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

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    • natural-risk
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    • air-movement
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  • 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

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    • lake
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • agriculture
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • water-geographic
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  • Distribution of ibex colonies

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

    After being resettled in 1906, Alpine (Capra) ibex live in colonies of varying sizes throughout the Alpine region and in the Jura mountains. Because the growth of stocks in...

    Last updated: March 31, 2020

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    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • wild-animal
    • game-animals
    • environment
    • habitat
    • protection-of-species
    • species-distribution
    • 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

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    • storm
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    • wind
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  • 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

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    • air-movement
    • storm
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  • 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

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    • WMS
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    • natural-risk
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    • wind
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  • 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

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    • 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

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • wind
    • storm
    • air-movement
    • natural-risk
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  • 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

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • natural-risk
    • air-movement
    • wind
    • storm
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Soot-concentration along the A2 and A13

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Environment

    The survey on air quality along transit routes through Switzerland assesses traffic-related air pollutants that are relevant to health. These pollutants typically arise from...

    Last updated: December 9, 2025

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  • NO2-concentration along the A2 and A13

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Environment

    The survey on air quality along transit routes through Switzerland assesses traffic-related air pollutants that are relevant to health. These pollutants typically arise from...

    Last updated: December 9, 2025

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  • NOx-concentration along the A2 and A13

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Environment

    The survey on air quality along transit routes through Switzerland assesses traffic-related air pollutants that are relevant to health. These pollutants typically arise from...

    Last updated: December 9, 2025

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  • Fine particulate-matter concentration along the A2 and A13

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Environment

    The survey on air quality along transit routes through Switzerland assesses traffic-related air pollutants that are relevant to health. These pollutants typically arise from...

    Last updated: December 9, 2025

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  • Traffic noise pollution

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Health, Environment

    Percentage of the population, flats and buildings exposed to road, rail and air traffic noise during the day and night. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE).

    Last updated: August 4, 2025

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    • noise-pollution-noise-environmental-monitoring-sonbase-database-road-traffic-noise-rail-traffic-nois
    • road-traffic-noise
    • rail-traffic-noise
    • air-traffic-noise
  • Red List

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Environment

    Red lists are scientific expert reports that assess the degree of threat to native species. In Switzerland, these lists are drawn up by specialists commissioned by the FOEN. They...

    Last updated: January 24, 2024

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  • Heavy Metal Soil Contamination

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

    The measurement data are the surveyed mean values of heavy metal concentrations recorded in the top 20 cm of the soil in around 100 permanent monitoring sites operated by the Swiss...

    Last updated: August 4, 2025

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  • CO2 emissions from thermal fuels (corrected for weather conditions) and motor fuels

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Environment

    Evolution of CO2 emissions from thermal and motor fuels. The CO2 emissions from thermal fuels are corrected for weather conditions (the correction for weather conditions takes into...

    Last updated: July 10, 2025

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