| Year
|
Details
|
Countries
|
Fatalities
|
Causes
|
| 120 BCE |
Cymbrian flood |
Denmark, Norway |
probably many thousands |
Storm tide
|
| 589 |
Breach at Cucca |
Italy |
|
|
| 1170 |
All Saints' Flood (1170) |
Netherlands |
probably many thousands |
Storm surge
|
| 1287 |
South England flood of February 1287 |
England |
probably many thousands |
Storm surge
|
| 1287 |
St. Lucia's flood |
Netherlands, Northern Germany, England |
50,000-80,000 |
Storm surge
|
| 1304 |
All Saints' Flood (1304) |
Germany |
271 |
Storm surge
|
| 1342 |
St. Mary Magdalene's flood |
Germany, Austria, Italy |
6,000 |
heavy rain
|
| 1362 |
(1st) Grote Mandrenke |
England, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and Schleswig |
>25,000 |
Storm surge
|
| 1404 |
St. Elizabeth's flood (1404) |
Netherlands |
|
Storm surge
|
| 1421 |
St. Elizabeth's flood (1421) |
Netherlands |
2,000-10,000 |
Storm surge
|
| 1436 |
All Saints Day Flood of 1436 |
Germany |
>180 |
Storm surge
|
| 1530 |
St. Felix's Flood |
Netherlands |
many thousands |
Storm surge
|
| 1570 |
All Saints' Flood (1570) |
Netherlands |
>20,000 |
Storm surge
|
| 1609 |
Bristol Channel floods, 1607 |
England |
3,000 |
disputed - possible tsunami
|
| 1634 |
Burchardi Flood |
Germany |
8,000-15,000 |
Storm surge
|
| 1651 |
St. Peter's Flood |
Netherlands, Northern Germany |
15,000 |
Storm surge
|
| 1703 |
Great Storm of 1703 |
United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany |
8,000-15,000 |
Storm surge
|
| 1717 |
Christmas flood of 1717 |
Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway |
14,000 |
Storm surge
|
| 1738 |
Holmfirth Floods (1738) |
England |
0 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1777 |
Holmfirth Floods (1777) |
England |
3 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1789 |
Storofsen |
Norway, Denmark |
63 |
heavy rains and snowmelting
|
| 1821 |
Holmfirth Floods (1821) |
England |
0 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1824 |
Saint Petersburg (1824) |
Russia |
10,000 |
Flood
|
| 1825 |
February flood of 1825 |
Germany, Netherlands |
800 |
Storm surge
|
| 1829 |
Muckle Spate (1829) |
Scotland |
|
Heavy rain
|
| 1852 |
Holmfirth Floods#1852 |
England |
81 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1859 |
Grenoble flood 1859 |
France |
|
Rain + meltwater
|
| 1864 |
Great Sheffield Flood |
United Kingdom |
270 |
failure of the Dale Dike Reservoir
|
| 1865 |
1865 flooding of Bucharest |
Romania |
Unknown |
Heavy rain
|
| 1872 |
1872 Baltic Sea flood |
Denmark, Germany, Norway |
271 |
Storm surge
|
| 1878 |
Flood in Miskolc, 1878 |
Hungary |
400 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1879 |
Segura flood |
Spain |
? |
?
|
| 1892 |
Mont Blanc glacier flood |
France |
175 |
subterranean glacial lake burst
|
| 1910 |
1910 Great Flood of Paris |
France |
0 |
heavy rain and meltwater
|
| 1910 |
1910 European Floods |
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Serbia, Switzerland |
1,200 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1928 |
1928 Thames flood |
England |
14 |
meltwater + heavy rain + storm surge
|
| 1934 |
1934 flood in Poland |
Poland |
55 |
heavy rain
|
| 1944 |
Holmfirth Floods#1944 |
England |
3 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1947 |
1947 Thames flood |
England, Spain, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia |
|
meltwater + heavy rain
|
| 1952 |
Lynmouth Flood |
United Kingdom |
34 |
heavy rain
|
| 1953 |
North Sea Flood of 1953 |
Netherlands, United Kingdom |
2,551 |
Storm surge
|
| 1957 |
1957 Valencia flood |
Spain |
81 |
heavy rains and Turia flood
|
| 1959 |
Malpasset Dam |
France |
423 |
Dam failure
|
| 1962 |
North Sea flood of 1962 |
Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany |
318 |
Storm surge
|
| 1962 |
1962 Vallés floods |
Spain |
700 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1963 |
Vajont disaster |
Italy |
1,917 |
a landslide caused a seiche wave and a megatsunami
|
| 1963 |
Guadalquivir flood in Cordoba and Sevilla |
Spain |
? |
|
| 1964 |
1964 Zagreb flood |
Yugoslavia |
17 |
Heavy rain
|
| 1965 |
Danube floods in 1965 |
Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia |
10 |
heavy rains, Alps snowmelting and dike failure at Číčov
|
| 1966 |
1966 Flood of the Arno River |
Italy |
35 |
heavy rains and snowmelting
|
| 1967 |
1967 Portugal floods |
Portugal |
The official death toll was 495 deaths. Unofficial estimates are of at least 700 deaths. |
heavy rains
|
| 1968 |
Great Flood of 1968 |
United Kingdom, France |
0 |
heavy rains and thunderstorms
|
| 1970 |
1970 floods in Romania |
Romania |
209 |
heavy rains and snowmelting
|
| 1976 |
Gale of January 1976 |
Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Germany |
82 |
Storm surge
|
| 1978 |
1978 North Sea storm surge |
England |
1 |
Storm surge
|
| 1981 |
December 1981 windstorm |
England, Wales, France |
|
Storm surge + meltwater
|
| 1985 |
Val di Stava dam collapse |
Italy |
268 |
the reservoir breached its dam.
|
| 1987 |
Valtellina disaster |
Italy |
53 |
heavy rain
|
| 1994 |
Piedmont flood |
Italy |
77 |
heavy rain for three days lead to extreme discharge of tributaries of Po river
|
| 1997 |
1997 Central European flood |
Czech Republic, Poland |
114 |
extensive rain periods
|
| 1998 |
Jarovnice flood |
Slovakia |
63 |
heavy rainfall plus collapse of dam formed by debris
|
| 1999 |
1999 Pentecost flood |
Austria, Germany |
|
heavy rainfall plus Alpine meltwater
|
| 1999 |
1999 Blayais Nuclear Power Plant flood |
France |
0 |
Storm tide
|
| 2000 |
Autumn 2000 western Europe floods |
United Kingdom, Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Slovenia |
20 |
heavy rains
|
| 2002 |
2002 European floods |
Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Croatia |
232 |
heavy rains
|
| 2002 |
2002 Glasgow floods |
United Kingdom |
0 |
heavy rains
|
| 2004 |
Boscastle flood of 2004 |
United Kingdom |
0 |
heavy rains
|
| 2005 |
2005 European floods |
Romania, Switzerland, Austria and Germany |
|
Record rain
|
| 2006 |
2006 European floods |
Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary |
0 |
poorly constructed dikes and levees and an unusual long and hard winter
|
| 2007 |
North Sea flood of 2007 |
Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and United Kingdom |
0 |
storm tide
|
| 2007 |
2007 United Kingdom floods |
United Kingdom |
13 |
heavy rain
|
| 2008 |
2008 Irish flash floods |
Ireland |
1 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2008 |
2008 Morpeth floods |
United Kingdom |
0 |
heavy rain
|
| 2009 |
2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods |
United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
4 |
heavy rains
|
| 2009 |
2009 European floods |
Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey |
33 |
heavy rains
|
| 2009 |
2009 Workington floods |
United Kingdom |
1 |
heavy rain
|
| 2009 |
2009 Messina floods and mudslides |
Italy |
31 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2009 |
2009 Turkish flash floods |
Turkey |
31 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2010 |
2010 Central European floods |
Poland, Hungary |
37 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2010 |
2010 Slovenia floods |
Slovenia |
3 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2010 |
2010 Var floods |
France |
25 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2010 |
2010 Albania floods |
Albania |
0 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2011 |
2011 European floods |
Ireland, Italy, France |
17 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2011 |
Cyclone Berit |
England |
4 |
Storm surge
|
| 2012 |
2012 Russian floods |
Russia |
171 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2012 |
2012 Great Britain and Ireland floods |
United Kingdom, Ireland |
9 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2012 |
2012 Romanian floods |
Romania |
5 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2013 |
2013 European floods |
Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Belarus, Poland, Hungary |
25 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2013 |
2013 floods in Rhodes, Greece
|
Greece
|
3
|
Heavy rain
|
| 2014 |
2014 Southeast Europe floods |
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Romania |
86 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2014 |
2014 Bulgarian floods |
Bulgaria |
16 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2016 |
2016 European floods |
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Moldova, Romania |
21 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2016 |
2016 Macedonian floods |
Republic of Macedonia |
21 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2016 |
2016 Italian flood |
Northwestern Italy |
1 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2017 |
2017 West Attica floods |
Greece |
24 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2018 |
2018 European floods |
Spain, France, Italy |
69 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2019 |
2019 Yorkshire Dales flooding |
United Kingdom |
0 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2019 |
2019–2020 United Kingdom floods |
United Kingdom |
11 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2020 |
2020 floods in Evia, Greece
|
Greece
|
8
|
Heavy rain
|
| 2020 |
Storm Gloria |
Spain, France |
14 |
Heavy rain, storm surge
|
| 2020 |
Storm Dennis |
United Kingdom |
7 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2020 |
2020 Western Ukraine floods |
Ukraine |
4 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2021
|
2021 Evros floods
|
Greece, Turkey
|
1
|
Heavy rain
|
| 2021 |
2021 European floods |
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, United Kingdom |
243 |
Heavy rain
|
| 2021
|
2021 Turkish floods
|
Turkey
|
97
|
Heavy rain
|
| 2021
|
2021 floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
0
|
Heavy rain
|
| 2023
|
2023 Emilia-Romagna floods
|
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
|
17
|
Heavy rains caused by Storm Minerva
|
| 2023
|
2023 Carinthia and Slovenia floods
|
Slovenia
|
7
|
Heavy rains
|
| 2023
|
2023 Danube floods
|
Hungary
|
12
|
Heavy rains
|
| 2024
|
2024 Germany floods
|
Germany
|
9
|
Heavy rains
|
| 2024
|
2024 Central European floods
|
Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary and Romania
|
27
|
Heavy rains
|
| 2024
|
2024 floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
27
|
Heavy rain
|
| 2024
|
2024 floods in Spain
|
Spain
|
227
|
Heavy rain
|
