Online-only Table 2 Specifications of the comparative databases: EM-DAT, DFA, EPF, HANZE-E, and FFEM-DB.
EM-DAT Emergency Events Database | DFA | EPF | HANZE-E | FFEM-DB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dartmouth Flood Archive | European Past Floods | Historical Analysis of Natural Hazards in Europe | Database of Flood Fatalities from the Euro-Mediterranean region | ||
Scale | Global | Global | EU Member States (includes TUR) | EU Member States | Study areas in Fig. 2 |
Period | Since 19001 | Since 19852 | 1980–20153 | 1870–20164 | 1980–2020 |
Grid | Country, region, basin, lat., long. | Country, provinces, towns, cities | EU units of management | Country NUTS 3, 2010 edition | Country, NUTS 2 and 3, 2020 edition |
Database producer | Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters | Dartmouth Flood Observatory | European Environment Agency | (TUDelft)51 | The authors of the present paper |
Link | 10.4121/uuid:62d3fc79-6638-480f-8d64-9c8d200bd41c | 10.4121/14754999.v2 | |||
Focus of database | Natural and technological disasters | Floods | Floods | Floods | Flood fatalities |
Inclusion criteria | • 10 or more people killed | • Significant damage to structures or agriculture | • Floods reported by EU Member States for the EU Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) | • At least one of the four statistics (area flooded, deaths, persons affected, the monetary value of losses) is available for a given event. However, if no persons were known to have been killed or missing, at least one of the other statistics had to be available. | • FFs due to river floods and flash floods |
• 100 or more people affected | • Decades intervals since the last similar event | • Data provided by relevant national authorities | • Insignificant floods, i.e., events that affected only a small part of one region, with no fatalities and less than 200 persons affected, were not included. | • FFs due to storm surges and dam breaks are not included | |
• declaration of a state of emergency | • and/or fatalities | • Data from EM-DAT and DFA | • Availability of information on the date, regions affected, type, and cause of the flood | ||
• and/or a call for international assistance | |||||
Data on FFs | Number of fatalities per event | Number of fatalities per event | Number of fatalities per event | Number of fatalities per event | Several parameters for each fatality |
