List of flood events
This list of flood events records disasters caused by floods , especially of river systems .
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Year / start | event | Affected region or river system | Fatalities |
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January 16, 1219 | First Marcellus Flood (Grote Mandränke) | Storm surges on the North Sea coast | 36,000-50,000 |
July 1342 | Magdalen flood | Different parts of Central Europe | 6000 and more |
January 16, 1362 | Second Marcellus Flood (Grote Mandränke) | Storm surges on the North Sea coast and the Engl. coast | Rungholt went under, loss of an Engl. city |
1480 | Floods on the Aare and Rhine in 1480 | Alpine region, northern and northwestern Switzerland, Baden, Upper Rhine | |
1501 | Flood in Central Europe 1501 | Southern and Eastern Germany, the Austrian Northern Alps / Danube region, Bohemia | |
1572 | Danube flood 1572 | Partly the heaviest flood of the millennium | |
1598 | Flood August 1598 | u. a. Salzach , Inn , Danube | |
1613 | Thuringian Flood | Ilm | 2261 |
1670 | Danube flood in the Duchy under the Enns ( Lower Austria ) | Entry in the parish register of St. Andrea's parish in Grafenwörth under the year 1670: "This year, on the day of St. Ulricuss, the 4th of Julius was such a great pouring of water ... Johaneß and Sebern also stood completely in water and even vil Heisser (houses) not washed (washed down / torn) ---- over 68 Clafftern ( fathoms ) ... " | |
1686 | St. Martins flood (lower Sint-Maartensvloed; Republic of the Seven United Provinces ) | The storm surge took place from February 12th to 13th and hit the province of Groningen in particular . | 1558 |
1736 | Danube and Oder floods in 1736 | One of the heaviest floods of the millennium in the Alpine region | |
July 1778 | Küsnachter flood 1778 | Küsnacht | 63 |
1768 | Danube flood in the Duchy under the Enns ( Lower Austria ) | According to Grafenwörther ( market town of Grafenwörth ) council protocol of 1768, there was a great flood on the night of February 24th to 25th, 1768 which lasted for four days | |
1787 | Floods in Central Europe in 1787 | One of the heaviest floods of the millennium in the Alpine region | |
1784 | Winter 1783/84 | Different parts of Germany | 9 |
June 8, 1827 | Mur flood in Graz | High water mark at Hotel Mariahilf | |
1845 | Elbe floods in 1845 | Elbe | |
1854 | Or flood | Or; "undisputedly the greatest and most ominous in living memory" | |
1868 | Floods in Switzerland in 1868 | Numerous floods due to heavy rain on both sides of the Alpine ridge | 51 |
1887 | Flood disaster on the Yellow River in 1887 | Yellow River | 900,000 to 2 million |
November, December 1882, January 1883 | Rhine flood 1882/1883 | Rhine | |
1897 | Flood in Saxony in 1897 | ||
1899 | Danube flood in 1899 | Danube | several bridges collapsed, see also Munich floods of 1899 |
1909 | Victory flood 1909 | victory | |
1909 | Werra flood 1909 | Werra | |
1910 | Seine floods in 1910 | His | |
1910 | Lech floods in 1910 | Lech | |
1910 | Flood from 15-20. June 1910 | Affected river systems: Linth, Thur, Aare, Rhine, Landquart, lattice, Reuss, Emme. Areas: Vorarlberg; around Feldkirch, Bludenz, Montafon. Eastern Switzerland, | Zurich. Central Switzerland; around Lake Lucerne. Northwestern Switzerland; Emmental, Meiringen. | |
1927 | Floods in the Eastern Ore Mountains in 1927 | Tributaries of the Elbe in the area of the Ore Mountains | |
1927 | Mississippi flood 1927 | Mississippi River | |
1931 | Flood disaster in China in 1931 | Yangtze River | 3.7 to 4 million |
1932 | Flood in Saxony in 1932 | ||
1947 | Oder flood disaster in 1947 | Or | |
1953 | Flood disaster of 1953 | Large parts of the Dutch and English coasts and, to a lesser extent, Belgium | 1,835 in the Netherlands, 307 in Great Britain, 28 in Belgium and 224 at sea |
1954 | Floods in Central Europe in 1954 | at least the Danube in Austria | |
1955 | Floods in India in 1955 | 45 million people are homeless, numerous dead | |
1962 | Storm surge 1962 | German North Sea coast | 340 |
1966 | Flood in Florence in 1966 | Arno (Tyrrhenian Sea) | 34 |
1981 | Weser breakthrough in 1981 | Weser | |
1981 | Oder winter floods 1981/82 | Or | |
1993 | Rhine flood in 1993 | Rhine | |
1995 | Rhine flood in 1995 | ||
July 1997 | Oder flood 1997 | Or | 74 fatalities (20 in the Czech Republic and 54 in Poland) |
1998 | Yangtze River floods in 1998 | Yangtze River | 3704 |
October 1998 | Central Texas Flood of October 1998 | Several rivers that flow into the Gulf of Mexico . | |
1999 | Whitsun flood in 1999 | Tributaries of the Danube in Bavaria and Austria. | |
2000 | Floods in Mozambique in 2000 | Zambezi and Limpopo | about 800 |
2002 | Elbe floods in 2002 | Elbe | |
2002 | Danube flood in 2002 | Danube | |
2005 | Alpine floods in 2005 | ||
March 2005 | Thaya-March floods in 2006 | Moravian Thaya and March | 0 |
August 2005 | Floods from Hurricane Katrina | Greater New Orleans | a total of 1836 |
March 2006 | Elbe floods in 2006 | Elbe | Several |
August 2007 | Floods in Switzerland in 2007 | Tributaries of the Rhine in the Swiss Jura. | 0 |
October 2008 | Flood disaster in Yemen in 2008 | Yemen | 180 |
June 2009 | Floods in Central Europe in 2009 | Danube , Vltava , Oder | 21 or more |
November 2009 | Floods in Jeddah in 2009 | Jeddah | 106 or more |
July 2010 | Flood disaster in Pakistan in 2010 | Swat and Indus , Pakistan | 1738 or more |
May 2010 | Floods in Central Europe in spring 2010 | Vistula , Oder , Danube | 32 |
December 2010 | Floods in Queensland 2010/2011 | Queensland , Australia | 30 or more |
December 2010 | Victoria floods 2011 | Victoria , Australia | At least 1 |
October 2011 | Floods in Thailand 2011 | Thailand | Almost 400 |
2012 | Floods in the rainy season in Nigeria | More than 350 dead | |
May and June 2013 | Floods in Central Europe in 2013 | Germany , Poland , Austria , Switzerland , Slovakia , Czech Republic , Hungary | At least 25 |
June 2013 | Floods in the Pyrenees in 2013 |
France : Haute-Garonne department , Garonne , Hautes-Pyrénées department , Lourdes , Gave de Pau Spain : Aragon , Esera |
At least 1 |
August 2013 | Floods in Northeast China and Far East Russia in 2013 |
China : Heilongjiang , Jilin , Liaoning Russia : Amur Oblast , Jewish Autonomous Oblast , Khabarovsk Region |
85, 105 missing |
August 2013 | Floods in southern China in 2013 | China : Guangdong | At least 33 |
May 2014 | Floods in the Balkans in 2014 |
Serbia : Obrenovac , Umcari , Lajkovac , Topola , Belgrade Bosnia and Herzegovina : Tuzla , Maglaj , Zenica , Doboj , Sarajevo |
At least 47 |
May and June 2016 | Flood after storms across Europe in spring 2016 | France, southern Germany | At least 2 |
June 1, 2016 | Floods in Simbach am Inn and in the Rottal-Inn district | Simbach am Inn / Rottal-Inn district | 7th |
Mid-July 2016 | Flood in China | Hebei Province | About 100 |
May 8, 2017 | Floods in the districts of Schärding, Grieskirchen and Eferding | Upper Austria | |
End of July 2017 | Floods in the Harz and Harz foreland | South Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt | At least 1 |
End of August 2017 | Floods in Niger |
in the southeast of the country, after 2 weeks of heavy rain and the opening of dams in neighboring Cameroon | over 100,000 refugees |
August 2018 | Floods in the state of Kerala , India | Monsoon rains from August 8th leads to flood of the century, 800,000–1 million in emergency shelters, $ 4 billion in damage. | > 370 dead |
20th August 2018 | Flash flood in the Raganello gorge , Italy | Heavy rain causes a torrent of water in the streambed that surprises hikers | 10 dead |
September 2018 | Floods in the rainy season in Nigeria | Dead in 10 states | 100 dead |
Mid-March 2019 | Floods in 23 provinces of Iran | 2 million people in need | at least 78 dead |
End of June 2019 | Flood near Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia | 10,000 people affected | at least 3 dead |
Beginning of February 2020 | Floods inundated parts of the South Island, New Zealand | 1000s affected | |
April / May 2020 | Floods in Kenya | Unusually heavy rain caused floods and landslides. 100,000 people had to leave their homes | 194 |
Mid-July to at least mid-August 2020 | Floods in China | After almost uninterrupted rain since the end of June, there were floods and landslides, more than 28,000 houses were destroyed, the worst flood in 70 years | more than 140 |
Beginning of August 2020 | Floods in Yemen | Floods after heavy rainfall, at least 120 injured | more than 130 |
End of August 2020 | Flash floods in Afghanistan | Houses were destroyed in Charikar ( Parwan province ), around 250 injured | at least 100 |
See also
Lists with regional reference
- Flood in Bremen
- Floods and natural disasters in Saxony
- Flood in Würzburg
- List of floods in Australia
More articles
- Centuries flood
- List of weather events in Europe
- Overview of flood disasters worldwide and historically
- List of dam disasters
- List of storm surges in the North Sea
- List of disasters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Militzer, S., Börngen, M. & Tetzlaff, G. (1999): The Oderhochwasser of 1736. An analogue to the flood of the century in 1997. - Geoökodynamik 20: 309-322, Bensheim. ISSN 0720-454X
- ↑ Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century. Third volume. Brandenburg. 1856. p. 120
- ↑ An extreme flood that shaped Switzerland. In: oeschger.unibe.ch . September 12, 2018, accessed April 27, 2020 .
- ↑ The flood of the Rhine in November, December 1882 and January 1883 ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ [1] Schweizer Illustrierte, June 1910, | accessed February 16, 2020.
- ↑ [2] Schweizer Illustrierte, June 1910, | accessed February 16, 2020.
- ↑ Wochenschau 1954 - Hochwasser orf.at (wmv video) ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ SWR ( online )
- ↑ International Commission for the Protection of the Oder against Pollution (1999): Oder catchment area: Das Hochwasser 1997, Wrocław, p. 55 ( [3] )
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- ↑ spiegel.de August 24, 2013
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- ↑ 100,000 flee floods in Nigeria orf.at, September 1, 2017, accessed September 1, 2017.
- ↑ Airlift in India for 100,000 people: the number of victims is increasing rapidly orf.at, August 19, 2018, accessed August 19, 2018.
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- ↑ Two million people in need after floods in Iran orf.at, April 30, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019.
- ↑ Dead and hundreds injured in floods in Siberia orf.at, June 30, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019.
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- ^ Kenya floods have killed nearly 200, displaced thousands. In: cbc.ca . May 6, 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020.
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