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)
- 54
- Range
- 30–84
- Composite weight
- 1 of 7
Provinces leading and trailing on Environment & Climate
Top 5
- Yala 84
- Krabi 77
- Narathiwat 77
- Satun 76
- Trang 76
Bottom 5
- Lopburi 30
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 31
- Sing Buri 34
- Pathum Thani 35
- Suphan Buri 38
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. See methodology for the goalposts and aggregation rules.
- Annual Count of Days With Maximum Temperature ≥ 35°C NASA POWER (Thailand Meteorological Department reserved as ground-validation)
- Percentage of Households With Inside Piped Water Supply on Premises National Statistical Office (NSO)
- PM2.5 Annual Mean Concentration OpenAQ (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 Performance Pollution Control Department (PCD)
- Tree Canopy Coverage Percentage Hansen Global Forest Change v1.12 (University of Maryland GLAD)
- Annual Count of Days Exceeding WHO Daily PM2.5 Guideline OpenAQ (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)