NL Risicokaart Afstandscheck per Adres

Check any Dutch address, postcode or coordinate against the official Register Externe Veiligheidsrisico's (REV) — the national register that replaced the classic Risicokaart/RRGS in 2023 — and get the nearest hazardous facilities (BRZO/Seveso, dangerous substances) with exact distances in meters, plus a clear verdict on whether the location falls inside a location-specific-risk contour (PR10⁻⁵ to 10⁻⁸) or an attention area (fire, explosion, toxic cloud).

Built for due-diligence teams, real-estate developers, permit consultants and insurers who need a fast, cheap red-flag check before commissioning a full external-safety assessment.

When should an AI agent use this?

• "Is this address near a BRZO or Seveso company?"
• "What is the distance from this building site to the nearest hazardous-substance facility?"
• "Does this location fall inside a PR-contour or an attention area?"
• "Screen these 20 candidate sites for external-safety risk."
• "Check whether a new school or care home can be built near this industrial estate."
• "Give me a risk summary for this property acquisition."

What this Actor does

• Geocodes any Dutch address, postcode, place name or lat,lon coordinate via the official PDOK Locatieserver (with a match-confidence score).
• Queries the REV WFS (rev-portaal.nl/geoserver) — the official External Safety Risk Register — for hazardous facilities within your search radius.
• Calculates exact distances in meters from your location to the parcel boundary of each nearest facility (point-to-polygon, not point-to-point centroids).
• Classifies each facility by risk group: seveso-brzo (Seveso/BRZO — flagged in the register itself), vergunningplicht (permit-required activities with fixed or calculated safety distances), licht (external-safety risk but no permit requirement) or overig (other registered risk).
• Checks contour layers for PR10⁻⁵, PR10⁻⁶, PR10⁻⁷ and PR10⁻⁸ location-specific-risk contours, the new Environmental Act attention areas (fire / explosion / toxic cloud), and the safety zones (vulnerable / limited-vulnerable / highly-vulnerable), reporting a simple inside/outside verdict per contour type.
• One record per location with machine-readable error codes (GEEN_GEOCODING_MATCH, UPSTREAM_ERROR, ONBEKENDE_FOUT) so agent loops can react programmatically.

Input

Field	Type	Description
locaties	string[]	Addresses, postcodes, place names or lat,lon coordinates to check (1-50).
zoekstraalMeter	number	Search radius in meters (default 2000, min 500, max 50000).
maxInrichtingen	number	Maximum number of nearest facilities returned per location (default 5, max 20).
includeContouren	boolean	Also check PR-contours, attention areas and safety zones (default true).
concurrency	number	How many locations to process in parallel (default 3, max 10).

Output

One JSON record per location:

{
  "invoer": "Bathseweg 27, Rilland",
  "gevonden": true,
  "fout": null,
  "foutcode": null,
  "weergavenaam": "Bathseweg 27, 4351 SC Rilland-Bath",
  "postcode": "4351SC",
  "gemeente": "Reimerswaal",
  "provincie": "Zeeland",
  "lat": 51.3867,
  "lon": 4.1531,
  "geocodingScore": 19.2,
  "geocodingBetrouwbaarheid": "hoog",
  "inrichtingen": [
    {
      "bedrijfsnaam": "Tankstation Rilland B.V.",
      "adres": "Bathseweg 25, 4351 SC Rilland-Bath",
      "activiteit": "Tanken LPG",
      "revCategorie": "VII-A1a",
      "risicogroep": "licht",
      "afstandMeter": 120,
      "ligtBinnen": false
    }
  ],
  "dichtstbijzijndeInrichting": { "bedrijfsnaam": "Tankstation Rilland B.V.", "afstandMeter": 120 },
  "ligtBinnenContour": false,
  "contouren": [
    { "type": "PR10-5", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "PR10-6", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "PR10-7", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "PR10-8", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "BRANDAANDACHTSGEBIED", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "EXPLOSIEAANDACHTSGEBIED", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "GIFWOLKAANDACHTSGEBIED", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "VEILIGHEIDSZONE_KWETSBAAR", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "VEILIGHEIDSZONE_BEPERKTKWETSBAAR", "ligtBinnen": false },
    { "type": "VEILIGHEIDSZONE_ZEERKWETSBAAR", "ligtBinnen": false }
  ],
  "zoekstraalToegepast": 2000,
  "bron": "REV WFS (rev-portaal.nl/geoserver, Register Externe Veiligheidsrisico's) + PDOK Locatieserver (geocoding)"
}

Use cases

• Real-estate due diligence — quick red flag before buying or developing a property near hazardous industry.
• Permit preparation — external safety is a mandatory part of the omgevingsvergunning assessment next to noise, nitrogen and soil; this check tells you early whether it applies.
• Insurance underwriting — distance-to-hazard is a standard input for industrial and commercial property pricing.
• Portfolio screening — batch-check a shortlist of candidate sites and rank by distance to the nearest Seveso/BRZO facility.
• Change monitoring — schedule periodic runs to detect newly registered facilities near your assets.

Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model.

• Actor Start: $0.00005 (Apify default)
• Location result: $0.008 per address/postcode/coordinate successfully checked
• Inside-contour signal: $0.015 per location found inside a PR-contour or attention area

You are only charged for locations that geocode successfully and complete the REV check — failed lookups are free.

Legal

• Data source: Register Externe Veiligheidsrisico's (REV), maintained on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management by municipalities, provinces and environmental services. Public government data, explicitly published for reuse via a public geoserver without authentication. Geocoding via the PDOK Locatieserver (also public government data).
• This actor is a screening tool, not an advisory tool. It reports factual distances and contour membership from a public register. It does not replace a formal external-safety assessment (external veiligheidstoets) required for a permit application, and it does not judge whether a location is "safe enough" to live or build in.
• Distances are calculated from the facility's parcel boundary using an equirectangular projection — accurate to well within a metre at these search radii, but indicative rather than survey-grade.
• The REV reflects registrations as provided by the mandated data bronhouders and is updated continuously; absence of a facility from the results does not guarantee absence of risk.

FAQ

Q: What is the difference between this and the old Risicokaart? A: The classic risicokaart.nl map was migrated into the national Register Externe Veiligheidsrisico's (REV) on 2023-01-01. This actor queries the current, authoritative REV source — which covers both the old hazard categories and the new Environmental Act attention areas.

Q: What does the "risicogroep" field mean? A: A classification derived from the REV's category code (rev_categorie, referencing Annex VII of the Environmental Activities Decree / Environmental Quality Decree): seveso-brzo = the register explicitly marks the facility as a Seveso (formerly BRZO) establishment; vergunnanplicht = external safety risk with permit requirement and fixed or calculated safety distances; licht = external safety risk without permit requirement (e.g. LPG filling stations); overig = other registered risk activities (e.g. pipelines).

Q: Why is the distance measured to the parcel boundary and not to the facility centroid? A: Because the REV stores each facility as a polygon (its parcel), the actor can compute the true minimum distance from your location to the site boundary — a much more meaningful number for screening than a centroid distance.

Q: What happens if the REV service is temporarily unavailable? A: The actor retries transient errors (HTTP 429/5xx) up to three times. If the service remains unreachable, the record still returns — with foutcode: "UPSTREAM_ERROR" and a human-readable message — so your run completes and you can retry later.

Q: How often is the data updated? A: The REV is updated continuously by the mandated data bronhouders (municipalities, provinces, environmental services). Because this actor queries the live WFS at run time, you always get the current state.

Related Actors

• NL Natura2000 Afstandscheck — the nitrogen/Natura2000 sibling check for the same addresses; run both for a complete omgevingsvergunning pre-screen (external safety + nitrogen).

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Zoekwoorden: risicokaart, BRZO, Seveso, gevaarlijke stoffen, externe veiligheid, REV, register externe veiligheidsrisico's, plaatsgebonden risico, PR-contour, veiligheidszone, omgevingsvergunning, due diligence, location risk, Bedrijveninventarisatie Risicogevallen.

Keywords

netherlands, risicokaart, brzo, seveso, hazardous substances, external safety, rev, location risk, due diligence, real estate, permit screening, open data, pdok

Changelog

0.1.0

• Initial release: REV-based facility proximity check with risk grouping, PR-contour and attention-area status, PDOK geocoding with confidence scoring.