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After a flood event, different numbers are circulating about the damages and people affected. However, a consistent database of the impacts of past floods is not available for Europe (EEA, 2011). Overviews of flooding on a European scale and its impacts were extracted from global disaster databases. Nevertheless, information on past flood events is the basis for a sound understanding of flood generating processes across  Europe and for reliable predictions of future flood changes. Therefore the development of a comprehensive publicly available database of flood events and their impacts in Europe is desirable (EEA, 2011).

Based on the information on past floods reported by EU Member States in the Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment (PFRA) under the Floods Directive (EU 2007, Art. 4) and complemented by data from global databases like EM-DAT (EM-DAT 2015) or Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO) (Brakenridge, 2015), such an EU overview of significant flood and their impact is now available for the 39 EEA member countries and cooperating countries ([2]). More details can be found in Box 2.1

[2] http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/countries-and-eionet