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.

125 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

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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

    • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • HADES: Bilanzierungsgebiete

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Die heutigen technischen Möglichkeiten erlauben die Verwendung einer Vielfalt von Einzugsgebietsgliederungen. Datensätze zu den Themen des Atlasses werden für die bekannten Fluss-...

    Last updated: May 13, 2025

    • SHP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • hydrogeology
    • hydrology
    • atlas
    • environment
    • hydrography
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • opendata
    • river-management
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • hydrology
  • Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Article 5 of the Federal Act of 1 July 1966 on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage (NCHA) orders the Federal Council to compile inventories of sites of national...

    Last updated: November 15, 2022

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • e-geoch
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Reaches surveyed - cross section securing point

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the reaches of watercourses which are currently surveyed periodically under the leadership of the FOEN. They are usually surveyed every 10 years or after major floods...

    Last updated: March 3, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • hazard
    • environment
    • natural-hazard
    • official-geodata
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Map of the recent earthquakes (last 90 days) in and around Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map of the earthquakes of the last 90 days shows the current seismic activity in Switzerland and the nearby regions recorded by the Swiss Seismological Service at the ETH...

    Last updated: November 1, 2016

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • API
    • earthquake
    • landsat
    • natural-risk-zones
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Air Pollution Monitoring Network NABEL: stations

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) monitors air quality at 16 different locations in Switzerland. The monitoring stations are spread over the entire country and...

    Last updated: January 1, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • pollutant
    • air
    • air-pollutant
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
  • Federal Inventory of Raised and Transition Bogs of National Importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Raised bogs are some of the most susceptible habitats in Switzerland and are in sharp decline. Today, between 10% and 20% of the original stocks still exist. The scientific...

    Last updated: December 1, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • River Typology for Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The typology of rivers groups the diversity of Swiss rivers according to abiotic, physiographic criteria, not considering anthropogenic impacts. They are a basis for assessment of...

    Last updated: January 1, 2013

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • official-geodata
    • flowing-water
  • Vegetation height model NFI

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

    Information on the vegetation height is determined using remote sensing methods with active and passive sensors. LiDAR is an active sensor. An optical sensor, for example an aerial...

    Last updated: October 31, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • WMS
    • API
    • fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Hunting Ban Reserves

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Federal hunting bans have existed since 1875 and served the purpose of raising the populations of chamois, red deer and roe deer as well as ibex (cloven-hoofed game), which had...

    Last updated: June 15, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    1987 liess das BUWAL eine detaillierte Vegetationskartierung der Objekte des Vernehmlassungsversion des Aueninventars ausarbeiten. Im Rahmen dieser Kartierungen wurden die...

    Last updated: May 26, 2015

    • WMTS
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • e-geoch
  • 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, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • official-geodata
    • environment
    • game-animals
    • wild-animal
    • species-distribution
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure