The 2021 floods in Germany and Belgium ranked among the ten deadliest flood events in Europe in the past 100 years, with a total of 209 fatalities. Nevertheless, the storm surge in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1953 remains Europe's deadliest flood in the period, with over two thousand fatalities. Coming at a second position is the flood that occurred in Romania, on the Danube river in 1926, which resulted in a death toll of 1,000 people.
Largest floods in Europe as of 2021, based on number of fatalities
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Yale University. (July 21, 2021). Largest floods in Europe as of 2021, based on number of fatalities [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1295966/deadliest-floods-in-europe/
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