Philippine hazard data is split across several government platforms, not one. HazardHunterPH is the fastest combined lookup. MGB publishes the national flood and landslide susceptibility maps most CLUPs start from. PHIVOLCS covers faults, seismic, and volcanic hazard. PAGASA issues real-time flood and storm-surge advisories, not static maps. Project DREAM/LiPAD has the highest-resolution flood models, but only for 18 major river basins. UP NOAH is active and was recently re-funded, not discontinued.
"Hazard map Philippines" searches usually want one of two things: a specific location checked against a specific hazard, or the raw data to build a map of their own. Neither is served by one platform. Here's what each official source actually covers, and which one a given job needs.
| HazardHunterPH | Earthquake, volcanic, and hydrometeorological hazard, one combined lookup — hazardhunter.georisk.gov.ph |
|---|---|
| UP NOAH | Flood, landslide, and storm-surge simulation — noah.up.edu.ph |
| MGB | Flood and landslide susceptibility maps, by province/municipality |
| PHIVOLCS | Active faults (FaultFinder), ground shaking, liquefaction, tsunami, volcanic hazard |
| PAGASA | Real-time flood forecasting and storm-surge advisories — not static maps |
| Project DREAM/LiPAD | LiDAR-derived flood models, 18 major river basins (Marikina-Pasig prototype) |
A multi-agency platform led by DOST-PHIVOLCS with PAGASA, ASTI, and PCIEERD, drawing in data from MGB, DepEd, DOH, and DPWH. It was formally adopted as the government's hazard-assessment platform by Cabinet directive on July 1, 2019. One point-and-click tool at hazardhunter.georisk.gov.ph/map covers earthquake-related hazard (ground rupture, ground shaking, liquefaction, earthquake-induced landslide, tsunami), volcanic hazard for selected active volcanoes, and hydrometeorological hazard (flood, strong wind, storm surge) for one location at a time. It's free, and also available as a mobile app.
Project NOAH launched under DOST in 2012 with roughly ₱6.4 billion over five years across 19 components. DOST discontinued that funding in February 2017, at around 60% of its hazard-mapping work complete. The University of the Philippines' Resilience Institute absorbed the program that June as the UP NOAH Center, running on a far smaller budget (roughly ₱36 million a year) since. Its "Know Your Hazards" tool at noah.up.edu.ph gives flood, landslide, and storm-surge assessments based on flood simulations plus satellite and historical data.
There's a live, unresolved dispute worth knowing about: in February 2026, DOST publicly suggested NOAH's technology and expertise should be absorbed into PAGASA, which the UP NOAH Center pushed back on, since most of the program's 20 sub-projects are controlled by different project leads, many at DOST, not by UP alone. Then in August 2026, the national government ordered the release of ₱1 billion to the UP System specifically to strengthen Project NOAH, for AI-enhanced modeling, LiDAR mapping, and real-time flood forecasting -- a major funding increase. The program is active and was just re-funded; it was not discontinued, though who operates which piece of it is still being sorted out.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (under DENR) publishes flood and landslide susceptibility maps covering the country by province and municipality. Published maps and images are freely viewable. Editable shapefiles are a different matter: MGB's own responses to Freedom of Information requests state it is not authorized to release shapefiles without clearance from its Central Office, and that it does not generally provide them to entities other than the LGU itself. Budget for that request process if your CLUP work needs the underlying GIS layer rather than a static image.
PHIVOLCS runs FaultFinder, built with Japan's AIST, which returns the distance and bearing from any entered coordinates to the nearest known active fault trace -- including the West Valley Fault, which is one segment of the larger Marikina Valley Fault System (the two terms aren't interchangeable; West Valley Fault and East Valley Fault are its two named segments). Its separate hazard-map portal covers ground shaking, liquefaction, earthquake-induced landslide, tsunami inundation, and volcanic/lahar hazard, available as KMZ, PDF, or JPG, with shapefiles available on request.
PAGASA's flood program is fundamentally different from the others: it issues real-time Basin Flood Bulletins for telemetered river basins, General Flood Advisories for non-telemetered ones, and dam-specific warnings through its Flood Forecasting and Warning System covering five major Luzon dams, plus storm surge warnings as part of severe weather bulletins. This is live forecasting, not a fixed hazard map -- useful for an active-event response, not for baseline CLUP hazard zoning.
Originally a DOST-funded UP program (expanded as Phil-LiDAR), Project DREAM produces LiDAR-derived flood hazard maps, digital elevation models, and flood inundation scenarios at 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100-year return periods, with the Marikina-Pasig basin as its original prototype. This is the highest-resolution data on this list, but it only covers 18 critical major river basins, not the whole country. Access is through the LiPAD portal, free for LGUs, national agencies, and academic researchers who create an account and submit a data request.
In practice, most LGU hazard-mapping work for a CDRA starts with MGB's susceptibility maps, because they have the most consistent national coverage, cross-checks against HazardHunterPH's combined lookup, and layers in Project DREAM/LiPAD data where the LGU's river basin happens to be one of the 18 covered. PAGASA and PHIVOLCS's live feeds matter for ongoing monitoring and emergency response rather than the baseline hazard zoning a CLUP needs. None of these replaces ground-truthing a specific site, but together they're the standard starting datasets.
Hazard-data overlays on the land-use map are part of Nova Gov's build-together roadmap -- grounded in these official sources, not an internal model.
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