olga petrucci,
L. (Luigi) Aceto,
C. (Cinzia) Bianchi,
V. (Victoria) Bigot,
R. (Rudolf) Brázdil,
S. (Susana) Pereira,
M. (Moshe) Inbar,
A. (Abdullah) Kahraman,
O. (Özgenur) Kılıç,
V. (Vassiliki) Kotroni,
M.C. (Maria Carmen) Llasat,
M. (Montserrat) Llasat-Botija,
M. (Michele) Mercuri,
K. (Katerina) Papagiannaki,
J. (Jan) Řehoř,
J. (Joan) Rossello-Geli,
P. (Paola) Salvati,
F. (Freddy) Vinet,
J.L. (José Luis) Zêzere,
Version 2 of Dataset published 2020 via 4TU.Centre for Research Data
The first version of EUFF (EUropean Flood Fatalities) contained 2466 FFs which occurred during a 39-year period (1980–2018) in 8 Euro-Mediterranean countries that are further divided into 9 study areas (Czech Republic, Israel, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, South France, Catalonia and Balearic Islands). This database is an updated version of EUFF, improved throughout the introduction of new data and details of flood fatalities emerged from ongoing historical research in the Czech Republic and South France study areas. EUFF contains 2483 flood fatalities, which occurred during the same period (1980–2018) in the above-mentioned study areas. The methodological approach is based on the systematic collection of data about floods that killed any people, which are named here as flood events. All cases of flood events triggered by rainfall were included, without severity thresholds: EUFF contains all the cases of flood events, independently of the number of fatalities per flood event. The methodological …