Environment & Climate
Air quality, heat stress, flood exposure, water access, waste management, and natural buffers (forest cover, tree canopy, rainfall pattern). The category that surfaces whether daily life is affected by burning-season smoke, drought, or rain-saturated discomfort.
Distribution
- Indicators
- 9
- Median (77 provinces)
- 60
- Range
- 33–84
- Composite weight
- 1 of 7
Provinces leading and trailing on Environment & Climate
Top 5
- Yala84
- Phrae82
- Lampang80
- Nan79
- Chiang Mai78
Bottom 5
Indicators in this category
Each indicator scores 0–100 against fixed methodology goalposts, then averages within the category with the listed weight. A weight of 1.0 marks a headline indicator; 0.5 marks a cross-validation companion. Seemethodology for the goalposts and aggregation rules.
- Annual Count of Days With Maximum Temperature ≥ 35°CNASA POWER (Thailand Meteorological Department reserved as ground-validation)
- Percentage of Households With Inside Piped Water Supply on PremisesNational Statistical Office (NSO)
- PM2.5 Annual Mean ConcentrationOpenAQ (Pollution Control Department feed)
- Provincial Cabinet-Resolution Flood-Aid Requests Per 100k Population (Annual)Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM)
- Provincial Solid Waste Management PerformancePollution Control Department (PCD)
- Tree Canopy Coverage PercentageHansen Global Forest Change v1.12 (University of Maryland GLAD)
- Annual Count of Days Exceeding WHO Daily PM2.5 GuidelineOpenAQ (Pollution Control Department feed)
- Provincial Forest Cover Percentage (NSO / Royal Forest Department source)Royal Forest Department (RFD), via National Statistical Office (NSO)
- Wet Days Per Year (≥ 1 mm Rainfall)NASA POWER (bias-corrected precipitation reanalysis)