A method for evaluating a hazardous situation acquired by at least one sensor of a vehicle includes reading in an item of hazard information representing the hazardous situation, an item of sensor information representing at least one property of the sensor, and a signal quality of a sensor signal provided by the sensor during acquisition of the hazardous situation; determining a sensor quality of the sensor using the item of sensor information and the signal quality; and determining a plausibility of the hazardous situation using the item of hazard information and the sensor quality in order to obtain a plausibility signal representing the plausibility of the hazardous situation.