Description
Provincial Law no. 9 of 1 July 2011 "Disciplina delle attività di protezione civile in provincia di Trento" (Regulations on civil protection activities in the province of Trento) places the task of forecasting hazards and risks (art. 6, paragraph 3) under the responsibility of the Province by drawing up and updating 'hazard maps' (art. 10, paragraph 1), which cover hazards related to hydrogeological, avalanche, flooding, seismic phenomena, forest fires, certain hazardous substances, suspended cables or other obstacles to air navigation and unexploded ordnance.
These instruments constitute the reference basis for defining the Hazard Synthesis Map (CSP), provided for by art. 22 of Provincial Law no. 15 of 4 August 2015 (Provincial Law for the Government of the Territory), which identifies the areas with different penalties for the purposes of applying the land use provisions of Provincial Law no. 5 of 27 May 2008 'Approval of the new Provincial Urban Plan'.
In particular, the Summary Hazard Map is one of the constituent elements of the Provincial Urban Plan PUP (paragraph 4, letter d, of Article 21 of Provincial Law no. 15 of 4 August 2015 and paragraph 1 of Article 3 of Provincial Law no. 5) and has the task of identifying the areas characterised by different degrees of penalty for land use purposes, due to the presence of hydrogeological, avalanche, seismic and forest fire hazards, described in the Hazard Maps (Article 10 of Provincial Law no. 9 of 1 July 2011 and Article 14 of Provincial Law no. 5 of 27 May 2008).
With regard to hazard, the Hazard Synthesis Map represents the new reference tool for urban planning and with its entry into force, the provisions of the Geological Synthesis Map and the land use provisions of the General Plan for the Use of Public Waters cease to apply (paragraph 2, art.22 of Provincial Law no. 15 of 4 August 2015).
With Resolution no. 1340 of 12 September 2025, the Provincial Council approved the new text of the 'Technical Provisions for the drafting of the Hazardousness Summary Map'.
These, in coherence with the provisions of Article 14 of Provincial Law no. 5 of 27 May 2008, establish the technical dispositions and methodology for the drafting of the Synthesis Hazard Map and the procedures for the identification of the areas characterised by different degrees of penality, as well as the river areas of hydraulic interest of the General Plan for the Use of Public Waters.
The discipline relative to the Summary Hazard Map provides that it is subject to periodic updates in function of, and at the same time as, the updates of the reference Hazard Maps.
With Resolutions no. 1341 and no. 1361 of 12 September 2025, the Provincial Council approved the second update of the Hazardousness Maps and of the Hazardousness Summary Map for the entire provincial territory, in force as from 19 September 2025, the day following its publication in the B.U.R. (Official Gazette of the Province of Bolzano).
The Provincial Government, with Resolution no. 1361 of 12 September 2025, also approved the new updated text of the "Indications and specifications for the application of the provisions concerning areas with high medium or low penalties and areas with other types of penalties", as reported in Annex C of the same resolution.
The cartographic contents of the approved CSP are available online for anyone via web-gis with the possibility of viewing the cartographies theme by theme and downloading shapefiles, TIFFs and multi-layer PDFs at the scale 1:10,000.
NB: Please note that the correct interactive display of maps in multi-layer PDFs also depends on the browser used. If this does not work, you will have to download the file to your machine and open it with ADOBE READER.
The maps are also available online via the following links:
Download cartography and documents
- Download Summary Hazard Map of the entire provincial territory in SHP format
- Download Hydraulic Fluvial Scopes of the CSP of the whole provincial territory in SHP format
- Download seismometric stations of the SPC of the whole provincial territory in SHP format
- Download of the CSP of the whole provincial territory by theme in SHP format