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Date	Death toll	Location	Event
December 18, 2022 – February 5, 2023	97	India	2023 Philippine floods
April – July	422	India	2023 North India floods
September 4 – September 12	11,498+	Libya, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Egypt	Storm Daniel

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
February 23 – April 7	22	Australia	2022 eastern Australia floods
February 15 - May 23	342	Brazil	2022 Petrópolis floods, 2022 Northeastern Brazil floods and mudslides
April 8 – 21	435	South Africa	2022 KwaZulu-Natal floods
May 5 – October	2,757	India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan	2022 India–Bangladesh floods, 2022 Pakistan floods, 2022 Afghanistan floods
December 18 – 30	52	Philippines	2022 Philippine floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
February 7	72^[21]	India	2021 Uttarakhand flood
June – present	21	China	2021 China floods
June – August	62	Niger	2021 Niger floods
July 12 – July 25	242	Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania, United Kingdom	2021 European floods
July 17 – 31	398	China	2021 Henan floods
July 22 – August	251	India	2021 Maharashtra floods
July 28 – August	113	Afghanistan	2021 Afghanistan flood, 2021 Nuristan floods
August 11 – 20	81	Turkey	2021 Turkey floods
August 21	20	United States	2021 Tennessee floods
17 December – 19 January	54	Malaysia	2021–2022 Malaysian floods
24 December – ongoing	21	Brazil	Late December 2021 Bahia floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
January 1	66	Indonesia	2020 Jakarta floods
January 26	70	Brazil	2020 Brazilian floods and mudslides^[22]
March – May	453	Rwanda, Kenya, Somalia, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Tanzania	2020 East Africa floods
May – November 21	2,813	India, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos	2020 China floods, 2020 Assam floods,2020 Kerala floods, 2020 Hyderabad floods,^[23] 2020 Nepal floods,^[24]^[25] 2020 Central Vietnam floods
July 4	77	Japan	2020 Kyushu floods^[26]
August	172	Yemen	2020 Yemen flood
August 26	190	Afghanistan	2020 Afghanistan flood
September	124	Sudan	2020 Sudan floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
January 22 - March 16	181	Indonesia	2019 South Sulawesi floods, 2019 Jayapura flood and landslide
February 14 - August 29	740	Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Iran, Pakistan	2019 South Asia floods, 2019 Kerala floods, 2019 Karnataka floods, 2019 Indian floods, 2019 Nepal floods, 2019 Bihar floods, 2019 Iran floods, 2019 Pakistan floods and storms
April 18 – 22	85	South Africa	2019 Durban Easter floods

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Death count	Event	Location	Year
930,000–2,000,000	1887 Yellow River flood	China	1887
422,499–4,000,000	1931 China floods	China	1931
400,000–893,303	1938 Yellow River flood	China	1939
145,000	1935 Yangtze flood	China	1935
up to 100,000^[1]^[2]^[3]	The flood of 1099	Netherlands, England	1099
0 or 36,000 or 60,000^[4]	North happy, storm surge	Holy Roman Empire	1212
50,000–80,000^[2]	St. Lucia's flood, storm surge	Holy Roman Empire	1287
40,000^[5]	1949 Eastern Guatemalan floods	Guatemala	1949
36,000	First St. Marcellus flood, storm surge	Holy Roman Empire	1219
33,000	1954 Yangtze River 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 flood / Grote Mandrenke, storm tide	Holy Roman Empire, Denmark	1362
20,000–25,000	All Saints' Flood, storm surge	Holy Roman Empire	1570
20,000	1939 Tianjin flood^{[citation needed]}	China	1939
15,000^[6]	1705 Po valley flood	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^[1]^[2]^[3]	St. Elizabeth's flood, storm surge	Holy Roman Empire	1421
10,000–30,000	1999 Vargas mudslide	Venezuela	1999
8,000–15,000	Burchardi flood	Germany, Denmark	1634
7,000^[6]	1557 Palermo flood	Sicily	1557
6,200^{[citation needed]}	Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui flood	China	1980
6,054	2013 North India floods	India	2013
5,154 (official)^{[citation needed]}	1963 Great Hai River flood	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^[5]	1968 Rajasthan, Gujarat monsoon rain	India	1968
4,800^{[citation needed]}	1951 Manchuria flood	China	1951
4,000^[6]	1610 Tanaro River flood	Italy	1610
3,838^{[citation needed]}	1998 Eastern India, Bangladesh monsoon rain	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^[7]	1993 South Asian Monsoon Flood	Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan	1993
3,076^{[citation needed]}	2004 Eastern India, Bangladesh monsoon rain	India, Bangladesh	2004
3,000^[6]	1530 Tiber River flood	Italy	1530
3,000^[6]	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 flood (1953 Northern Kyushu flood and 1953 Wakayama flood), mainly Kitakyushu, Kumamoto, Wakayama, Kizugawa, massive rain, flood, mudslide	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	Morvi dam burst	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^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]	Pakistan	2010
1,921^[5]^[6]	Vajont Dam landslide and flood	Italy	1963
1,834^{[citation needed]}	1992 Pakistan, Northern India monsoon rain	Pakistan, India	1992
1,739^[12]	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
1,348	2007 China flood, mountain torrents, mud-rock flows	China	2007
1,268	Floods caused by Tropical Storm Washi^[13]	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
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, Gode, flash flood, heavyrain	Ethiopia	2006
677	2009 August 8 flood, due to Typhoon Morakot, An entire village of Shiaolin was buried at the southern county of Kaohsiung	Taiwan	2009
672	1972 Seoul flood	South Korea	1972
653	1972 Luzon flood	Philippines	1972
640	1987 Villatina landslide disaster	Colombia	1987
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
1678	The flood of Chile
500	Malawi, flash flood and landslide	Malawi	1991
500	Gauldal, landslide	Norway	1345
500^[14]	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, monssnal 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. Aarons Flood	Amsterdam	1420
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 Abass, 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, Kelantan, torrential rain	Thailand, Malaysia	1988
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+^[6]^[15]	1923 Gleno Dam failure	Italy	1923
353	2007 African Nations flood	mainly Sudan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and many African country	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^[6]	1584 Tanaro River flood	Italy	1584
300	Flood in Miskolc, 1878	Miskolc, Hungary	1878
300	Pampayacta avalanche	Peru	1963
300	Quebrada Blanca canyon, landslide	Colombia	1974
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
242	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	Black Hills flood	United States	1972
235–244	2009 Philippine Floods^[16]	Philippines	2009
233	2020 Central Vietnam floods	Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos	2020
230	Marrakesh flash flood	Morocco	1995
228	2007 Balochistan flood by Cyclone Yemyin	Pakistan	2007
223	2012 North Korean floods	North Korea	2012
225	2018 Japan floods	Japan	2018
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
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
135	Ozengeli, avalanche	Turkey	1993
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, mud swept	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
113	2019 Jayapura flood and landslide	Indonesia	2019
113	2021 Afghanistan flood, 2021 Nuristan floods	Afghanistan	2021
110	Southern Federal District, heavy rain, landslide^[17]	Russia	2002
106	1997 Central European flood	Poland, Czech Republic	1997
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	Puerto Rico (Ponce)	1985
90+	Columbus, Ohio flood on March 25, 1913	United States	1913
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^[18]	1852 Gundagai flood	Australia	1852
80+	2014 Southeast Europe floods	Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia	2014
80^[19]	1988 Sudan floods	Sudan	1988
80	Failure of Laurel Run Dam and flash flooding, Johnstown, Pennsylvania	United States	1977
78	Austin Dam failure	United States	1911
77+	2019 Iran floods	Iran	2019
73	1993 Kagoshima Heavy Rain, mudslide and debris flow	Japan	1993
72+	Nigeria floods	Nigeria	2012
72	Gudbrandsdalen flood and landslides	Norway	1789
69	2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans	United States	2005
68	2019 South Sulawesi floods	Indonesia	2019
67	2003 Santa Fe flood	Argentina	2003
66	2020 Jakarta floods	Indonesia	2020
62	2021 Niger floods	Niger	2021
61^[20]	Clermont and Peak Downs flood	Australia	1916

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
January 8	21	United States	January 2018 Western United States floods
March	500	Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Djibouti, Burundi	2018 East Africa floods
May 19 – 26	22	Sri Lanka	2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods
June 23 – 25	23	Vietnam	June 2018 Vietnam floods
June 28 – July 9	225	Japan	2018 Japan floods
July 23	40	Laos	2018 Laos dam collapse and flood
July – August	483	India	2018 Kerala floods
August 28	76	North Korea	2018 North Korean floods
September 2	14	Vietnam	September 2018 Vietnam floods
October – November	69	Spain, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Portugal	2018 European floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
December 16, 2016 – March	246	Zimbabwe	2016–17 Zimbabwe floods
April 14-August 30	1,245	India, Pakistan, China, Iran	2017 Mumbai flood, 2017 Karachi floods, 2017 Bihar flood, 2017 West Bengal floods, 2017 Rajasthan flood, 2017 Gujarat flood, 2017 China floods, 2017 Northwest Iran floods
July 15	10	United States	2017 Payson flash floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
March 11	21	Brazil	2016 São Paulo flood and mudslide
April 3 – 5	153	Pakistan	2016 Pakistan flood
April 6	28	Ethiopia	2016 Ethiopia flood
May	101	Sri Lanka	2016 Sri Lankan floods
May – June	21	Germany, France, Belgium, Romania, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Austria, Moldova	2016 European floods
June 23 – 24	23	United States	2016 West Virginia flood
June	10	Ghana	2016 Accra floods
June – September	350	China	2016 China floods
June – September	38	Niger	2016 Niger flood
August 6 – 10	21	Republic of Macedonia	2016 Macedonian floods
August 12 – 22	13	United States	2016 Louisiana floods
August – September	525	North Korea	2016 North Korean floods
October	13	Vietnam	2016 Vietnam floods
October	26	Egypt	2016 Egypt flood
December	91	Thailand	2017 Southern Thailand floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
December 14, 2014 – January 2	75	Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia	2014–15 floods in Southeast Asia and South Asia
January 9 – 20	225	Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe	2015 Southeast Africa floods
March 4	38	Tanzania	2015 Tanzania flood
March 23 – 25	26	Chile	2015 Northern Chile floods and mudflow
May 22 – 25	31	United States	2015 Texas–Oklahoma flood
June	25	Ghana	2015 Accra floods
June 14	20	Georgia	2015 Tbilisi flood
July 7 – 30	72	India	July 2015 Gujarat flood
July 16 – August	103	Myanmar	2015 Myanmar floods
November – December	500	India	2015 South Indian floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
May 13 – 27	86	Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia	2014 Southeast Europe floods
June 7	200	Afghanistan	2014 Baghlan floods
June 17 – 20	16	Bulgaria	2014 Bulgarian floods
August 18 – 25	10	South Korea	2014 South Korea floods
September 2 – 26	557	India, Pakistan	2014 India–Pakistan floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
January 15 – 23	47	Indonesia	2013 Jakarta flood
May – June	25	Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Poland, Switzerland	2013 European floods
June	5,748	India	2013 North India floods
April 1 – 3	101	Argentina	2013 Argentina floods
August	50	Sudan	2013 Sudan floods
August	187	Pakistan, Afghanistan	2013 Pakistan–Afghanistan floods
August 10	85	China, Russia	2013 China–Russia floods
July – September	201	India	2013 Bihar flood
July 3 – September	73	China	2013 Southwest China floods
August – December	405	Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar	2013 Southeast Asian floods
November 17 – 19	18	Italy	2013 Sardinia floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
May	26	Nepal	May 2012 Nepal floods
July 7	171	Russia	2012 Krasnodar Krai floods
July 21	77	China	July 2012 Beijing flood
July 19 – September 17	330	North Korea	2012 North Korean floods
July – October	363	Nigeria	2012 Nigeria floods
August	31	India	2012 Himalayan flash floods
August 1 – 8	95	Philippines	2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods
September	455	Pakistan	2012 Pakistan floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
January 11	903	Brazil	January 2011 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides
March 23	53	Thailand	2011 Southern Thailand floods
April	400	Colombia	April 2011 Colombia floods
May 4 – June 20	20	United States	2011 Mississippi River floods
June 4 – 27	239	China	2011 China floods
July 25 – 28	69	South Korea	2011 Seoul floods
July 25 – January 12, 2012	815	Thailand	2011 Thailand floods
June – October	2,282	Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia	2011 Southeast Asian floods
August	63	Pakistan	2011 Kohistan floods
August – September	434	Pakistan	2011 Sindh floods
September – November	81	Colombia	Sep–Nov 2011 Colombia floods
October	13	France, Italy, Ireland	2011 European floods
December 2010 – January	40	Philippines	2010–11 Philippine floods
December 2010 – January	141	South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique	2010–11 Southern Africa floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
November – January 2011	35	Australia	2010–11 Queensland floods
December 30, 2009 – January 6	85	Brazil	January 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides
February 20	42	Portugal	2010 Madeira floods and mudslides
April	249	Brazil	April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides
May 1 – 7	31	United States	2010 Tennessee floods
May – June	37	Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary	2010 Central European floods
June 10 – 11	20	United States	2010 Arkansas floods
June 15 – 16	25	France	2010 Var floods
June	51	Brazil	2010 Northeastern Brazil floods
June – July	23	Romania	2010 Romanian floods
July	1,781	Pakistan	2010 Pakistan floods
August 6	255	India	2010 Ladakh floods
May 10 – September	3,189	China	2010 China floods
October 6	145	Indonesia	2010 West Papua floods
October 10 – November 19	236	Thailand, Malaysia	2010 floods in Thailand and north Malaysia
November	301	Colombia	2010 Colombian rainy season

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
March – April	131	Angola, Namibia, Zambia	2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods
April – May	44	Brazil	2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides
June	33	Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Romania, Serbia, Turkey	2009 European floods
June – September	193	Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone	2009 West Africa floods
July	299	India	2009 India floods
July – August	26	Pakistan	2009 Karachi floods
September	31	Turkey	2009 Turkish flash floods
September 15 – 30	10	United States	2009 Southeastern United States floods
October 1 – 2	31	Italy	2009 Messina floods and mudslides
November 25	122	Saudi Arabia	2009 Jeddah floods
November 7 – 8	199	El Salvador	2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
February – March	42	Namibia	2008 Namibia floods
March 17 – May	17	United States	Early Spring 2008 Midwest floods
May 26 – June 14	200	China	2008 South China floods
June 7 – July 1	16	United States	June 2008 Midwest floods
July 3 – September	2,400	India	2008 Indian floods
August	434	India	2008 Bihar flood
October	100	Vietnam	2008 Vietnam floods
October 19 – 23	180	Yemen	2008 Yemen cyclone and floods
November	128	Brazil	2008 Santa Catarina floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
December 18, 2006 – January 13	118	Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore	2006–07 Southeast Asian floods
February	29	Mozambique	2007 Mozambican flood
February 2 – 12	80	Indonesia	2007 Jakarta flood
April	15	Argentina	March 2007 Argentina floods
June	11	United States	June 2007 Texas flooding
June 1 – July 27	13	United Kingdom	2007 United Kingdom floods
July 3 – August 15	2,000	India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan	2007 South Asian floods
August 15 – 31	600	North Korea	2007 North Korean floods
August 17	181	China	2007 Shandong coal mine flood
August 17 – 24	18	United States	2007 Midwest flooding
August – December	1,287	India	2007 Bihar flood
September 14 – 17	250	Sudan, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Togo	2007 African floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
June 25 – July 5	16	United States	2006 Mid-Atlantic United States flood
July	844	North Korea	2006 North Korean floods
August-September	1,047	Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
January	17	United States	Los Angeles County flood of 2005
June	117	China	Shalan Town flood of 2005
July	1,503	India Maharastra
May	1,624	China Zhejiang
August	62	Romania, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Austria, Germany	2005 European floods
August	89	United States	2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans
November – December	50	India	2005 Chennai floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
January	165	Brazil São Paulo
May 18 – 25	3,363	Haiti, Dominican Republic	May 2004 Caribbean floods
August	885	India	2004 Bihar flood
September	1,029	China Jiangsu

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
June-August	1,961	China, Nepal
June	17	Chile	2002 Northern Chile floods and mudflow
August	110	Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Poland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Romania	2002 European floods

Date	Death toll	Location	Event
February – March	1,005	Mozambique, Madagascar	2000 Mozambique flood, Early 2000 Madagascar floods
June	150	India, Bangladesh	2000 India-Bangladesh floods
September – October	20	United Kingdom, Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Slovenia	Autumn 2000 Western Europe floods