Hill land risk intelligence

Know the ground before you buy it.

Real estate and industrial development intelligence for Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Scan your investments for risk, plot by plot.

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30 metre ground classes around a sample plot, with the report patch outlined
From the sample report: 30 m ground classes around one plot. Green is buildable by slope rule, red is too steep, blue is torrent or river floor.

The problem

Hill plots look the same on a brochure and fail very differently on the ground.

A bad plot can be a total loss

Slides, debris flows, flash floods and glacial-lake outbursts follow terrain, rivers and rain. A site visit in a dry month shows none of it.

National maps are coarse

In our tests against recorded landslides, the national landslide-susceptibility map showed almost no skill at plot level. It was built for regions, not for one hillside.

A broker's word is not diligence

Lenders, lawyers and developers need numbers they can trace to a source, with the limits stated.

What you get

A site report for any point in the two states.

Each report covers the patch of ground around your plot, about 0.8 km², and its neighbours. Every figure comes from a stored measurement and a stated rule.

Headline

Relative landslide rank

Which fifth of the block's hill patches your plot falls in, from an independent slope-failure model tested on events it had not seen.

Map

Ground at 30 m

Buildable ground, steep ground, torrent and river floors and outburst corridors, drawn pixel by pixel around the plot.

Water

Rivers, torrents and outbursts

Height above the nearest channel, valley confinement and traced glacial-lake and glacier outburst corridors.

Climate

Climate, weather and water

Heat, frost, fire weather, drought, heavy rain, wind and more, each with a value in its own unit and a fixed 1 to 5 score.

Access

Roads and services

Road-network distance to the district capital, highway, hospital, school and market towns, plus road class, mapped power lines and substations, banks and ATMs.

Judgement

A diligence note

A short written note on legal and ownership checks to run, earthquake design requirements and what to look for on a site visit.

80+ measured values9 sections30 climate rows, scored 1 to 51 PDF per plot

Evidence

Tested on landslides the model had never seen.

We trained on one inventory and tested on 67 recorded landslides found afterwards, in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

0 of 67recorded landslides fell in the lowest-ranked fifth of hill patches
78% fell in the highest fifth · 20% each by chance

What it does not do

  • It ranks relative landslide risk. It does not certify any plot as safe, and it does not replace a site survey or an engineer.
  • Within one district the rank is only a modest signal for telling a plot from its neighbours. The point-level terrain facts in the report help with that.
  • The national susceptibility map and the "safe ground by slope" rule did not hold up in our tests, so they are shown as context only.
  • River proximity marks where events cluster. It is not a safety signal.
  • It does not assess legal title, ownership, zoning or earthquake engineering. The diligence note covers what to check.

How it works

From a location to a report.

  1. Send the location

    A map pin, coordinates or the village name and district.

  2. We scan the patch

    The plot's patch and its neighbours are read against the stored measurements and the landslide model.

  3. You receive the report

    A PDF with the rank, the maps and tables, and a short written diligence note.

Made for

Real estate developersIndustrial site selectorsLendersProperty lawyersBrokersIndividual buyers

About

Built and delivered by one person.

HillScan Report is built and run by Anupam Vashist. Every report is generated by the HimScan software from stored data and reviewed before it is sent, so the numbers can be traced and the limits are stated on the page.

Coverage is Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. The model, its tests and their results are documented, and I can walk you through them.

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