Assessing long-term trends in flood losses and attributing them to climatic and socioeconomic changes requires comprehensive and systematic collection of historical information. Here, we present flood im- pact data for Europe that are 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 were 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 and with the 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 sub- national 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 events, notes on data quality issues or associated non-flood impacts, and full bibliography of each record supplement the dataset. Apart from the possibility of downloading the data (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8410025; Paprotny, 2023a), the database can be viewed, filtered, and visualized online at https://naturalhazards.eu (last access: 4 November 2024). The dataset is designed to be complementary to HANZE-Exposure, a high-resolution model of historical exposure changes (such as population and asset values) and be easily usable in statistical and spatial analyses, including multi-hazard studies
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- Citation
- Paprotny, D., Terefenko, P., Śledziowski, J. (2024): HANZE v2.1: an improved database of flood impacts in Europe from 1870 to 2020. - Earth System Science Data, 16, 11, 5145-5170.
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-5145-2024
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- 26
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- Germany
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Table of Contents
- Abstract 1
- Introduction 1
- Methods 2
- Data coverage 2
- Floods 2
- Inclusion criteria 3
- Spatial coverage and resolution 4
- Data sources 4
- Database contents 5
- Results 5
- Temporal distribution 5
- Spatial distribution 6
- Discussion 7
- Comparison with other impact datasets 7
- Comparison with HANZE v1 10
- Limitations and uncertainties 12
- Data availability 13
- Code availability 18
- Conclusions 18
- Appendix A: Detailed definitions of fields in HANZE 18
- Appendix A1: ID 18
- Appendix A2: Country code 18
- Appendix A3: Year 18
- Appendix A4: Country name 18
- Appendix A5: Start date 18
- Appendix A6: End date 18
- Appendix A7: Type 18
- Appendix A8: Flood source 19
- Appendix A9: Regions affected (v2010) 19
- Appendix A10: Regions affected (v2021) 19
- Appendix A11: Area inundated 19
- Appendix A12: Fatalities 19
- Appendix A13: Persons affected 19
- Appendix A14: Losses (nominal value) 20
- Appendix A15: Losses (original currency) 20
- Appendix A16: Losses (2020 euro) 20
- Appendix A17: Cause 20
- Appendix A18: Notes 20
- Appendix A19: References 21
- Appendix A20: Changes 21
- Author contributions 21
- Competing interests 21
- Disclaimer 21
- Special issue statement 21
- Acknowledgements 21
- Financial support 21
- Review statement 21
- References 21
