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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-321
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-321
17 Oct 2023
 | 17 Oct 2023
Status: a revised version of this preprint is currently under review for the journal ESSD.

An improved database of flood impacts in Europe, 1870–2020: HANZE v2.1

Dominik Paprotny, Paweł Terefenko, and Jakub Śledziowski

Abstract. Assessing long-term trends in flood losses and attributing them to climatic and socio-economic changes requires comprehensive and systematic collection of historical information. Here, we present flood impact data for Europe that is part of the HANZE (Historical Analysis of Natural HaZards) database. The dataset covers riverine, pluvial, coastal and compound floods that have occurred in 42 European countries between 1870 and 2020. The data was obtained by extensive data-collection from more than 800 sources ranging from news reports through government databases to scientific papers. The dataset includes 2521 events characterized by at least one impact statistic: area inundated, fatalities, persons affected or economic loss. Economic losses are presented both in the original currencies and price levels as well as inflation and exchange-rate adjusted to the 2020 value of the euro. The spatial footprint of affected areas is consistently recorded using more than 1400 subnational units corresponding, with minor exceptions, to the European Union’s Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), level 3. Daily start and end dates, information on causes of the event, notes on data quality issues or associated non-flood impacts, and full bibliography of each record supplement the dataset. Apart from the possibility to download the data (https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8410025), the database can be viewed, filtered and visualized online: https://naturalhazards.eu. The dataset is designed to be complementary to HANZE-Exposure, a high-resolution model of historical exposure changes (such as population and asset value), and be easily usable in statistical and spatial analyses, including multi-hazard studies.

Dominik Paprotny, Paweł Terefenko, and Jakub Śledziowski

Status: final response (author comments only)

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • CC1: 'Comment on essd-2023-321', Olga Petrucci, 23 Oct 2023
    • AC1: 'Reply on CC1', Dominik Paprotny, 24 Oct 2023
      • CC2: 'Reply on AC1', Olga Petrucci, 25 Oct 2023
  • RC1: 'Comment on essd-2023-321', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Dec 2023
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Dominik Paprotny, 20 Dec 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-321', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Dec 2023
    • AC3: 'Reply on RC2', Dominik Paprotny, 20 Dec 2023
Dominik Paprotny, Paweł Terefenko, and Jakub Śledziowski

Data sets

HANZE database of historical flood impacts in Europe, 1870-2020 Dominik Paprotny https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8410025

Model code and software

HANZE v2.1 flood impact model Dominik Paprotny https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8223833

Dominik Paprotny, Paweł Terefenko, and Jakub Śledziowski

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Knowledge about past natural disasters can help adapting to their future occurrences. Here, we present a dataset of 2521 riverine, pluvial, coastal and compound floods that have occurred in 42 European countries between 1870 and 2020. The dataset contains available information on the area inundated, fatalities, persons affected or economic loss, and was obtained by extensive data-collection from more than 800 sources ranging from news reports through government databases to scientific papers.
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