The aim of this study was to generate a national‐scale landslide susceptibility map for Grenada. As the available data turned out to be insufficient to generate reliable results, we decided to generate several new data layers and significantly improved some of the existing data. We generated a new database of hydro‐meteorological disaster events for Grenada, for the period 1822 to 2014, making use of many different sources. This is the most complete inventory up to our knowledge. It is quite clear from this database that the disaster reporting became more frequent in recent years, although limited information on landslides is available for Grenada, even more when going back in time, whereas the data on tropical storms and hurricanes seems to be much more constant over time. The underreporting of landslides is a big problem in trying to evaluation landslide frequency/magnitude relations, which are required to convert susceptibility maps into hazard maps. We also compiled all available landslide data from different sources. Unfortunately there was only one point‐based inventory available, which contained 142 landslides points along the road network. We generated a completely new landslide inventory using multi‐temporal visual image interpretation, and generated an extensive landslide database for Grenada. The resulting landslide database contains 818 landslides, 163 were considered to have occurred before 2005, 643 were triggered by hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Emily in 2005, and only 3 events are mapped for the period 2005‐2014. It is clear from these inventories that landslides are related to major rainfall events in Grenada.
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