The data set represents the risk of areas along the rail infrastructure to the ignition and spread of embankment fires. This product of the embankment fire risk (aggregated) is the result of the research project “Sensitivity analysis of vegetation along federal transport routes with regard to storm hazards and embankment fires” of the German Center for Rail Transport Research at the Railway Federal Office as part of the work of the BMDV expert network in the field of climate change impacts and adaptation (bmdv-Expertennetzwerk.de). The factual information and hazard classes are provided exclusively for the area of rail infrastructure. The data basis for this is the 'geo-route' data set, which is provided by Deutsche Bahn (DB) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license (http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/geo-route ). The risk assessments for the ignition and spread of embankment fires in the area of the rail infrastructure are shown, each 50 m on both sides of the track. The initial risk assessment was carried out using a MaxEnt model based on past events as well as data sets on topography, vegetation, meteorology and orbit-specific parameters. The risk potential is given between 0-1, with a higher value simply reflecting a higher susceptibility of an area to ignition and fire spread based on the model parameters. In this data set, the hazard potential is presented aggregated into route sections each approximately 500 m long. For aggregation, the average value of all pixels within the section was formed. A higher value of the "MaxEnt" attribute therefore indicates that there are grid cells with a high risk assessment within this section of the route. Due to the limited database of past events, the risk assessments should be interpreted as an initial assessment. The aim is to comprehensively validate and control the data.
