List of flood events

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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
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
0June 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
0June 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
0May 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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century. Third volume. Brandenburg. 1856. p. 120
  3. ↑ An extreme flood that shaped Switzerland. In: oeschger.unibe.ch . September 12, 2018, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / undine.bafg.de
  5. ↑ [1] Schweizer Illustrierte, June 1910, | accessed February 16, 2020.
  6. ↑ [2] Schweizer Illustrierte, June 1910, | accessed February 16, 2020.
  7. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / magazine.orf.at
  8. ↑ SWR ( online )
  9. ↑ International Commission for the Protection of the Oder against Pollution (1999): Oder catchment area: Das Hochwasser 1997, Wrocław, p. 55 ( [3] )
  10. ↑ Nigeria: Flood kills more than a hundred people orf.at, September 16, 2018, accessed September 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ spiegel.de August 24, 2013
  12. ↑ spiegel.de August 24, 2013
  13. ↑ http://orf.at/#/stories/2350859/ Around 100 dead from storms in China, orf.at, July 23, 2016, accessed July 23, 2016.
  14. ↑ Floods along the Danube May 9, 2017, accessed May 9, 2017.
  15. ↑ 100,000 flee floods in Nigeria orf.at, September 1, 2017, accessed September 1, 2017.
  16. ↑ Airlift in India for 100,000 people: the number of victims is increasing rapidly orf.at, August 19, 2018, accessed August 19, 2018.
  17. ↑ Flash flood kills ten hikers: 23 people saved orf.at, August 21, 2018, accessed August 22, 2018.
  18. ↑ Nigeria: Flood kills more than a hundred people orf.at, September 16, 2018, accessed September 17, 2018.
  19. ↑ Two million people in need after floods in Iran orf.at, April 30, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019.
  20. ↑ Dead and hundreds injured in floods in Siberia orf.at, June 30, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019.
  21. ↑ Parts of New Zealand's South Island flooded orf.at, February 5, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020.
  22. ^ Kenya floods have killed nearly 200, displaced thousands. In: cbc.ca . May 6, 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020.
  23. ↑ Tom Odula: Flooding in Kenya has killed nearly 200 in past 3 weeks. In: abcnews.go.com . May 6, 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020.
  24. ↑ Flooding threatens Giant Buddha orf.at, August 19, 2020, accessed August 19, 2020.
  25. ↑ More than 140 dead in severe floods in China. In: orf.at . July 13, 2020, accessed August 14, 2020.
  26. ↑ More than 130 dead in floods in Yemen. In: orf.at . August 9, 2020, accessed August 14, 2020.
  27. ↑ Flash floods in Afghanistan kill at least 100 people. In: derstandard.at . August 26, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020.