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Natural Hazard Indicators

Pressures

  • Number of resource or building consents applied for/granted within flood protection area
  • Number of buildings within flood protection area
  • Number of buildings within identified fire buffer
  • Number of dwellings built on potentially unstable land (i.e. land classed as having a degree of erosion of 2 or greater and/or slopes of >20 degrees)
  • Number of resource or building consent applications applied for/granted for development on potentially unstable land


State

  • Number and severity of flood events annually
  • Area of land subject to flooding
  • Number and area affected by rural fires annually
  • Area of vegetated and un-vegetated land classified as having a degree of erosion of 2 or greater
  • Area of headwater catchment in vegetation
  • Number and size of earthquakes recorded annually
  • Annual damage ($) to public and private property


Response

  • Area of land identified on planning maps being subject to flooding
  • Amount of Council spending on resourcing rural fire fighting emergency services
  • Area of land being identified on planning maps as being subject to land instability
  • Number of resource and building consents declined in areas identified as being subject to flooding, fire or instability
  • Council expenditure on educating community about hazards
  • Number of fire-fighting emergencies