Disaster losses in Guatemala, record by event, 1988-2015 (DesInventar)
Records of Guatemala's national disaster loss database in DesInventar (UNDRR): for each event (flood, fire, landslide, epidemic, earthquake and others), its date, place and effects, such as people affected, injured or evacuated, homes damaged or destroyed, hectares affected and losses in US dollars or local currency, from 1988 to 2015.
- data points
- 14,409
- series
- 14,409
- Period
- Jan 1988 to Dec 31, 2015
- Licence
- use allowed with attribution
- Attribution the licence asks for
- Fuente: DesInventar Sendai (UNDRR), base de datos de pérdidas por desastres de Guatemala (fuentes por registro: CONRED, prensa).
- Licence read on
- Nov 8, 2026
- Frequencies
- Daily: 14,018 series · Monthly: 360 series · Annual: 31 series
- Nature of the data
- Published: 14,409 series
- Retrieved
- Nov 7, 2026
- Data state
- Advance Guatemala keeps the data point as the source published it: it does not compare it with other sources or apply the tolerance bands it uses for the site's verified figures.
Dimensions
How the source classifies its series, with the most frequent values first.
Event type
- Incendio
- Inundación
- Deslizamiento
- Lluvias
- Sismo
- Avenida torrencial
- Tempestad
- Vendaval
Department
- GUATEMALA
- ALTA VERAPAZ
- HUEHUETENANGO
- SAN MARCOS
- ESCUINTLA
- PETEN
- QUETZALTENANGO
- QUICHE
Notes
This is a record inventory: each series is one event with a single value per effect, not an annual total. Only records with approval status 0, nearly all of them, were included; the export does not explain the other codes. Some dates give only the month or the year.
Series
Every series in the dataset. Open one to see its data points, each with its source link.