| Deaths |
Event |
Location |
Year |
| 7,000,000[1] |
1332 China floods |
China |
1332 |
| 1,000,000–2,000,000 |
1887 Yellow River flood |
China |
1887 |
| 422,000–2,000,000 |
1931 China floods |
China |
1931 |
| 470,000–500,000 |
1938 Yellow River flood |
China |
1938 |
| 300,000–500,000 |
1970 Bhola cyclone |
East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) |
1970 |
| 145,000 |
1935 Yangtze flood |
China |
1935 |
| 100,000+ |
St. Felix's flood |
Netherlands |
1530 |
| up to 100,000[2][3][4] |
The flood of 1099 |
Netherlands, England |
1099 |
| 50,000–80,000[3] |
St. Lucia's flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1287 |
| 0 or 36,000 or 60,000[5] |
North sea flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1212 |
| 40,000[6] |
1949 Eastern Guatemalan floods |
Guatemala |
1949 |
| 25,000+ |
First St. Marcellus's flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1219 |
| 33,000 |
1954 Yangtze floods |
China |
1954 |
| 27,000–1,500,000 |
1974 Bangladesh flood due to monsoon rain |
Bangladesh |
1974 |
| 26,000–240,000 |
1975 Banqiao Dam failure and floods |
China |
1975 |
| 25,000–40,000 |
St. Marcellus's flood (Grote Mandrenke), storm tide |
Holy Roman Empire, Denmark |
1362 |
| 20,000–25,000 |
All Saints' Flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire, Netherlands |
1570 |
| 20,000 |
1939 Tianjin flood[citation needed] |
China |
1939 |
| 15,000[7] |
1705 Po Valley flood |
Po Valley, Italy |
1705 |
| 14,000 |
Christmas flood, storm surge |
Netherlands, Germany, Denmark |
1717 |
| 11,498+ |
Storm Daniel |
Libya, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Egypt |
2023 |
| 10,000–100,000[2][3][4] |
St. Elizabeth's flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1421 |
| 10,000–30,000 |
1999 Vargas mudslide |
Venezuela |
1999 |
| 9,887–30,000 |
1999 Odisha cyclone, storm surge |
India (Odisha), Myanmar, Bangladesh |
1999 |
| 8,000–15,000 |
Burchardi flood |
Germany, Denmark |
1634 |
| 7,000[7] |
1557 Palermo flood |
Sicily |
1557 |
| 6,511 |
2020 South Asian floods |
Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka |
2020 |
| 6,200[citation needed] |
Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui flood |
China |
1980 |
| 6,054 |
2013 North India floods |
India |
2013 |
| 6,000-12,000 |
1900 Galveston hurricane |
United States |
1900 |
| 5,154 (official)[citation needed] |
1963 Great Hai River flood |
Hai River, China |
1963 |
| 5,000–10,000[citation needed] |
Rajasthan flood |
India |
1943 |
| 5,000[citation needed] |
Lake Palcacocha in the Cojup valley, Cordillera Blanca mountain range, landslide by massive avalanche |
Peru |
1941 |
| 4,892[6] |
1968 Rajasthan, Gujarat monsoon rain |
India |
1968 |
| 4,800[citation needed] |
1951 Manchuria flood |
China |
1951 |
| 4,000[7] |
1610 Tanaro River flood |
Italy |
1610 |
| 3,838[citation needed] |
1998 Eastern India, 1998 Bangladesh flood |
India, Bangladesh |
1998 |
| 3,814[citation needed] |
1989 Sichuan flood |
China |
1989 |
| 3,800[citation needed] |
1978 Northern India monsoon rain |
India |
1978 |
| 3,656[citation needed] |
1998 Yangtze river flood |
China |
1998 |
| 3,500[citation needed] |
1948 Fuzhou flood |
China |
1948 |
| 3,189+ |
2010 China floods, landslides |
China, North Korea |
2010 |
| 3,083[8] |
1993 South Asian monsoon floods |
Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan |
1993 |
| 3,076[citation needed] |
2004 Eastern India, Bangladesh monsoon rain |
India, Bangladesh |
2004 |
| 3,000[7] |
1530 Tiber River flood |
Italy |
1530 |
| 3,000[7] |
1598 Tiber River flood |
Italy |
1598 |
| 3,000[citation needed] |
1992 Afghanistan flood, mainly, Gulbahar, Kalotak, Shutul, Parwan, flash flood, mudslide |
Afghanistan |
1992 |
| 2,910[citation needed] |
1950 Pakistan flood |
Pakistan |
1950 |
| 2,828+ |
2011 Southeast Asian floods |
Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia |
2011 |
| 2,775[citation needed] |
1996 China flood, torrential floods, mud-rock flows |
China |
1996 |
| 2,566 |
1953 Japan floods (1953 Northern Kyushu flood and 1953 Wakayama flood), massive rain, flood, mudslides |
mainly Kitakyushu, Kumamoto, Wakayama, and Kizugawa, Japan |
1953 |
| 2,400[citation needed] |
North Sea flood, storm surge |
Netherlands |
838 |
| 2,379[citation needed] |
1988 Bangladesh monsoon rain |
Bangladesh |
1988 |
| 2,209 |
Johnstown Flood |
United States (Pennsylvania) |
1889 |
| 2,142 |
North Sea flood of 1953 storm surge |
Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium |
1953 |
| 2,075[citation needed] |
1981 Sichuan, Shanxi flood |
China |
1981 |
| 2,055[citation needed] |
1987 Bangladesh monsoon rain |
Bangladesh |
1987 |
| several thousands[citation needed] |
North Sea flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1014 |
| several thousands[citation needed] |
St. Juliana flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1164 |
| several thousands[citation needed] |
St. Agatha flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1288 |
| several thousands[citation needed] |
St. Clemens flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1334 |
| several thousands |
St. Mary Magdalene's flood |
Central Europe |
1342 |
| several thousands[citation needed] |
All Saints flood, storm surge |
Holy Roman Empire |
1532 |
| several thousands[citation needed] |
North Sea flood, storm surge |
Netherlands |
1703 |
| 2,000–10,000 |
Great Iran Flood |
Iran |
1954 |
| 2,000–5,0001 |
1979 Machchhu dam failure |
India (Morvi, Gujarat) |
1979 |
| 2,000–3,000[citation needed] |
Mostaganem and Oran flood |
Algeria |
1927 |
| 2,000+ |
Bristol Channel floods |
England and Wales; possible tsunami |
1607 |
| 2,000+ |
May 2004 Caribbean floods |
Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands |
2004 |
| 1,985 |
Pakistan floods, monsoon flooding[9][10][11][12] |
Pakistan |
2010 |
| 1,921[6][7] |
Vajont Dam landslide and flood |
Italy |
1963 |
| 1,834[citation needed] |
1992 Pakistan, Northern India monsoon rain |
Pakistan, India |
1992 |
| 1,739[13] |
2022 Pakistan floods |
Pakistan |
2022 |
| 1,723[citation needed] |
1991 China flood, mainly, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, torrential floods, mud-rock flows |
China |
1991 |
| 1,700[citation needed] |
1955 Northern India flood |
India |
1955 |
| 1,624[citation needed] |
Fujian, Anhui, Zhejiang flood |
China |
2005 |
| 1,605–3,363[citation needed] |
spring flooding |
Haiti, Dominican Republic |
2004 |
| 1,558 |
St. Martin flood, storm surge |
Netherlands |
1686 |
| 1,532[citation needed] |
2002 China flood, torrential floods, mud-rock flows |
China |
2002 |
| 1,503[citation needed] |
Mumbai and the surrounding state Maharashtra, Karnataka, monsoon rain in 2005 |
India |
2005 |
| 1,437[citation needed] |
1995 China flood, mainly, Hunan, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Sichuan, Fujian, torrential rain, devastating floods, mud-rock flows |
China |
1995 |
| 1,392[14] |
Hurricane Katrina, storm surge and levee failure |
United States |
2005 |
| 1,348 |
2007 China flood, mountain torrents, mud-rock flows |
China |
2007 |
| 1,268 |
Floods caused by Tropical Storm Washi[15] |
Philippines |
2011 |
| 1,029 |
2004 China flood, mountain torrents, mud-rock flows, landslide |
China |
2004 |
| 1,000–8,000 |
2016 Indian floods by monsoon rain |
India |
2016 |
| 1,000[citation needed] |
1961 Bihar flood |
India |
1961 |
| 992 |
1957 Isahaya flood, massive rain and mudslide |
Japan |
1957 |
| 969 |
2025 Sumatra floods and landslides |
Indonesia |
2025 |
| 941 |
Inuyama Iruka pond dam failure |
Japan |
1868 |
| 933 |
1938 Hanshin flood, mainly Tokyo, Kobe, massive rain and landslide |
Japan |
1938 |
| 915 |
Barcelona, flash flood |
Spain |
1962 |
| 903 |
January 2011 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides |
Brazil |
2011 |
| 848 |
1977 Karachi flood |
Pakistan |
1977 |
| 844 |
2006 North Korean floods |
North Korea |
2006 |
| 827 |
Algiers, Bab El Oued, devastating flood, mudslide |
Algeria |
2001 |
| 800 |
North Sea flood, storm surge |
Netherlands |
1825 |
| 800 |
2000 Mozambique flood |
Mozambique |
2000 |
| 705 |
2006 Ethiopia flood, mainly Omo River Delta, Dire Dawa, Tena, and Gode, flash floods, heavy rain |
Ethiopia |
2006 |
| 677 |
August 8 2009 flood due to Typhoon Morakot; an entire village of Shiaolin was buried in the southern county of Kaohsiung |
Taiwan |
2009 |
| 672 |
1972 Seoul flood |
South Korea |
1972 |
| 653 |
1972 Luzon flood |
Philippines |
1972 |
| 650 |
Great Flood of 1913 |
United States |
1913 |
| 610 |
2007 North Korean floods |
North Korea |
2007 |
| 595 |
1999 Vietnamese floods |
Vietnam |
1999 |
| 594 |
Hanoi and Red River Delta flood |
North Vietnam |
1971 |
| 540 |
1969 Tunisia flooding |
Tunisia |
1969 |
| 532 |
Cuzco, Huallaga, torrential rain, flooding, landslide |
Peru |
1982 |
| 517 |
1967 Massive rain of Japan, mainly, Kobe, Kure, Agano River, massive rain and landslide |
Japan |
1967 |
| 506 |
KwaZulu-Natal |
South Africa |
1987 |
| 500 |
Malawi, flash flood and landslide |
Malawi |
1991 |
| 500[16] |
2018 East Africa floods |
Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Somalia |
2018 |
| 483 |
2018 Kerala floods |
India |
2018 |
| 464 |
Lisbon flash flood |
Portugal |
1967 |
| 449+ |
2016 China floods |
China |
2016 |
| 445 |
Western Japan, massive rains and landslides |
Japan |
1972 |
| 437 |
1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide |
Brazil |
1967 |
| 431 |
St. Francis Dam failure |
United States (California) |
1928 |
| 431 |
2015 Tamil Nadu floods Chennai, Cuddalore and Andhra Pradesh named 2015 South Indian floods |
India |
2015 |
| 429 |
2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monsoon rain, flood, landslide |
Nepal |
2002 |
| 425 |
October 1999 Mexico floods, mainly occurred at Tabasco, Puebla, Chiapas, flood and mudslide as a result from Tropical Depression Eleven |
Mexico |
1999 |
| 421 |
Malpasset Dam failure |
France |
1959 |
| 420 |
St. Aaron's Flood |
Amsterdam |
1420 |
| 415+ |
2024 Nigeria floods |
Nigeria |
2024 |
| 408 |
1969 South Korea flood, mainly, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gyeongsangnam-do, Gangwon-do, torrential rain, landslide |
South Korea |
1969 |
| 407 |
1993 Iran flood, mainly occurred at Isfahan, Bandar Abbas, flash flood and landslide |
Iran |
1993 |
| 405 |
1998 South Korea flood, heavy massive rain, landslide |
South Korea |
1998 |
| 400 |
1955 Lebanon Tripoli flood |
Lebanon |
1955 |
| 386 |
Thailand, Malaysia, mainly Nakhon, Songkhla, and Kelantan, torrential rain |
Thailand, Malaysia |
1988 |
| 385+ |
Wayanad, Kerala, India |
Chooral Mala Landslide |
2024 |
| 385 |
Ohio River flood of 1937 |
United States (Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois) |
1937 |
| 373 |
1966 Rio de Janeiro flood, flood and landslide |
Brazil |
1966 |
| 364 |
Piura, Tumbes, torrential rain, flooding, landslide |
Peru |
1983 |
| 360+ |
Great Dayton Flood |
United States |
1913 |
| 360 |
1958 Buenos Aires flood |
Argentina |
1958 |
| 356+[7][17] |
1923 Gleno Dam failure |
Italy |
1923 |
| 353 |
2007 African Nations flood |
mainly Sudan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and other African countries |
2007 |
| 347 |
1996 Yemen flood |
Yemen |
1996 |
| 345 |
1987 South Korea flood, mainly, Chungchongnam-do, Jeollanam-do, Kangwon, torrential rain, landslide |
South Korea |
1987 |
| 342 |
2006 East African Flood |
Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia |
2006 |
| 315 |
North Sea flood of 1962 storm tide |
Germany |
1962 |
| 313 |
2003 Sumatra flood, mainly Jambi, Batanghari, Tondano, torrential rain, flash flood, landslide |
Indonesia |
2003 |
| 302 |
2021 Henan floods |
China |
2021 |
| 300+ |
2024 Nepal floods |
Nepal |
2024 |
| 300[7] |
1584 Tanaro River flood |
Italy |
1584 |
| 300 |
1878 flood in Miskolc |
Miskolc, Hungary |
1878 |
| 299 |
1982 Nagasaki flood |
Japan |
1982 |
| 290 |
Rio de Janeiro and Fluminense flood |
Brazil |
1988 |
| 272 |
1973 Granada, Almeria, Murcia flood |
Spain |
1973 |
| 270 |
Great Sheffield flood dam disaster |
United Kingdom |
1864 |
| 268 |
Val di Stava dam disaster |
Italy |
1985 |
| 259 |
1966 Maian flood |
Jordan |
1966 |
| 255 |
1998 Tajikistan flood |
Tajikistan |
1998 |
| 251 |
2021 Maharashtra floods |
India |
2021 |
| 250 |
La Josefina landslide dam failure |
Ecuador |
1993 |
| 246+ |
April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
2010 |
| 246 |
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 |
United States (Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas) |
1927 |
| 243 |
2021 European floods |
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Romania, Czech Republic, Croatia |
2021 |
| 240 |
2017 Gujarat flood |
Gujarat and Rajasthan, India |
2017 |
| 238 |
2024 Spanish floods |
Province of Valencia, Spain |
2024 |
| 238 |
Black Hills flood |
United States |
1972 |
| 235–244 |
2009 Philippine Floods[18] |
Philippines |
2009 |
| 233 |
2020 Central Vietnam floods |
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos |
2020 |
| 232 |
2002 European floods |
Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine |
2002 |
| 230 |
Marrakesh flash flood |
Morocco |
1995 |
| 228 |
2007 Balochistan flood by Cyclone Yemyin |
Pakistan |
2007 |
| 225 |
2018 Japan floods |
Japan |
2018 |
| 223 |
2012 North Korean floods |
North Korea |
2012 |
| 203+ |
2017 China floods |
China |
2017 |
| 200–600 |
1824 St. Petersburg flood |
Russia |
1824 |
| 200–600 |
Chungar landslide, flood, avalanche |
Peru |
1971 |
| 200+ |
2008 South China floods |
South China |
2008 |
| 200 |
Pamir Mountain area, mud and rock slides, torrential rain |
Tajikistan |
1992 |
| 199 |
Santa Catarina, Tubarão, torrential heavy rain |
Brazil |
1974 |
| 199 |
2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides |
El Salvador |
2009 |
| 190 |
Huigra, landslide |
Ecuador |
1931 |
| 187 |
Ulaanbaatar-Tov area, heavy rain, mostly during August |
Mongolia |
1982 |
| 182 |
2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods |
Brazil |
2024 |
| 172 |
2012 Russian floods |
Krymsk |
2012 |
| 165 |
2004 Brazil flood, mainly São Paulo, Pemambuco, torrential rain, mudslide |
Brazil |
2004 |
| 159 |
Sarno flood and landslide |
Italy |
1998 |
| 154 |
KwaZulu-Natal |
South Africa |
1995 |
| 141+ |
2010–2011 Southern Africa floods |
Africa |
2011 |
| 140+ |
2019 Pakistan floods and storms |
Pakistan |
2019 |
| 139 |
Mill River (Northampton, Massachusetts) |
United States |
1874 |
| 138 |
2010 Colombia floods |
Colombia |
2010 |
| 136+ |
July 2025 Central Texas floods |
United States |
2025 |
| 133-196 |
1957 Ankara flood |
Turkey |
1957 |
| 128 |
Izumo, massive rain and mudslide |
Japan |
1964 |
| 125+ |
2010 Leh floods |
Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan/India |
2010 |
| 123 |
2009 Jeddah torrential rain, floods |
Saudi Arabia |
2009 |
| 121 |
1986 Northern Vietnam floods |
Vietnam |
1986 |
| 120 |
1991 Antofagasta flood, mudslide |
Chile |
1991 |
| 119 |
2007 Central and East Java torrential monsoon rain, landslide, flood |
Indonesia |
2007 |
| 117 |
Masuda, massive rain and landslide |
Japan |
1983 |
| 115 |
Los Angeles flood of 1938 |
United States |
1938 |
| 114 |
1990 South Korea flood, Seoul, Inchon, heavy rain |
South Korea |
1990 |
| 114 |
1997 Central European flood |
Poland, Czech Republic |
1997 |
| 113 |
2019 Jayapura flood and landslide |
Indonesia |
2019 |
| 113 |
2021 Afghanistan flood, 2021 Nuristan floods |
Afghanistan |
2021 |
| 110 |
Southern Federal District, heavy rain, landslide[19] |
Russia |
2002 |
| 104 |
1981 Laingsburg flood |
South Africa |
1981 |
| 101 |
2013 Argentina floods |
Argentina |
2013 |
| 101 |
2016 Sri Lankan floods |
Sri Lanka |
2016 |
| 100+ |
2023 North India floods |
India |
2023 |
| 100 |
2008 Vietnam floods |
Vietnam, China |
2008 |
| 94 |
The Mameyes disaster |
Ponce, Puerto Rico |
1985 |
| 86 |
"Las Nieves" camping river flood, in Biescas. |
Spain |
1996 |
| 85+ |
January 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
2010 |
| 81+ |
Valencia flood |
Valencia, Spain |
1957 |
| 81 |
Holmfirth floods—Bilberry Reservoir dam failure |
United Kingdom |
1852 |
| 81 |
2021 Turkey floods |
Turkey |
2021 |
| 80–100[20] |
1852 Gundagai flood |
Australia |
1852 |
| 80+ |
2014 Southeast Europe floods |
Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia |
2014 |
| 80[21] |
1988 Sudan floods |
Sudan |
1988 |
| 80 |
1977 Johnstown flood |
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, US |
1977 |
| 78 |
Austin Dam failure |
United States |
1911 |
| 77+ |
2019 Iran floods |
Iran |
2019 |
| 77 |
2021 Niger floods |
Niger |
2021 |
| 73 |
1993 Kagoshima flood, mudslides and debris flow |
Japan |
1993 |
| 72+ |
2012 Nigeria floods |
Nigeria |
2012 |
| 72 |
Gudbrandsdalen flood and landslides |
Norway |
1789 |
| 68 |
2019 South Sulawesi floods |
Indonesia |
2019 |
| 67 |
2003 Santa Fe flood |
Argentina |
2003 |
| 66 |
2020 Jakarta floods |
Indonesia |
2020 |
| 61[22] |
Clermont and Peak Downs flood |
Australia |
1916 |