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Box 2.1           European Flood Impact Database

A European Flood Impact Database (EFID) was not available so far. In most European countries, national databases for natural hazards were available but they were very different in terms of type of hazards included, information on impacts, thresholds to include events, availability of the detailed data etc. (Mysiak et al., 2013). The amount of information available increased significantly after the reporting of the PFRA (mainly on the impacts, although often not quantified or expressed in monetary terms) and the information was better structured due to the template imposed by the Floods Directive reporting schemas. Nevertheless the PFRA reporting in itself is insufficient to act as the single database on European floods and flood impacts (Kjeldsen et al., 2013). In addition, floods are not bound to administrative boundaries and e.g. no information was available about non-EU European countries.

Therefore, a list of significant floods since 1980 as defined by the countries and selected attributes on hazard and impact were prefilled based on the PFRA reporting and global natural disaster database. A country consultation for corrections and additions ran from February until May 2015. The resulting database, where also environmental impacts and impacts on cultural heritage are included where available besides fatalities and economic damage, is available at: http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-eionet-freshwater/library/country-review-european-floods-impact-database-2015 (*). Results are discussed in Section 4.1 of this report.

(*) link to be replaced by reference to water data centre once data are available