List of deadliest floods

Death Toll	Event	Location	Date
2,500,000–3,700,000	1931 China floods	China	1931
900,000–2,000,000	1887 Yellow River (Huang He) flood	China	1887
500,000–700,000	1938 Yellow River (Huang He) flood	China	1938
231,000	Banqiao Dam failure, result of Typhoon Nina. Approximately 86,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent disease.	China	1975
145,000	1935 Yangtze river flood	China	1935
more than 100,000	St. Felix's Flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1530
100,000	Hanoi and Red River Delta flood	North Vietnam	1971
100,000	1911 Yangtze river flood	China	1911
50,000–80,000	St. Lucia's flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1287
60,000	North Sea flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1212
40,000	1949 Eastern Guatemala flood	Guatemala	1949
36,000	St. Marcellus flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1219
30,000	1954 Yangtze river flood	China	1954
28,700	1974 Bangladesh monsoon rain	Bangladesh	1974
25,000–40,000	St. Marcellus flood / Grote Mandrenke, storm tide	Netherlands, Germany, Denmark	1362
20,006	1999 Vargas mudslide	Venezuela	1999
20,000	All Saints' Flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1570
20,000	1939 Tianjin flood	China	1939
14,000	Christmas flood, storm surge	Netherlands, Germany, Denmark	1717
10,000–100,000	St. Elizabeth flood, storm surge	Netherlands, Belgium	1421
8,000–15,000	Burchardi flood	Germany, Denmark	1634
10,000	Great Iran Flood	Iran	1954
10,000	1824 St. Petersburg flood	Russia	1824
several thousands	St. Juliana flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1164
several thousands	St. Agatha flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1288
several thousands	St. Clemens flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1334
several thousands	All Saints flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1532
several thousands	North Sea flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1703
6,200	Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui flood	China	1980
5,000	Cojup valley, Cordillera Blanca mountain range, landslide by massive avalanche	Peru	1941
5,000–10,000	Rajputana flood	India	1943
4,892	1968 Rajasthan, Gujarat monsoon rain	India	1968
4,800	1951 Manchuria flood	China	1951
3,838	1998 Eastern India, Bangladesh monsoon rain	India, Bangladesh	1998
3,814	1989 Sichuan flood	China	1989
3,800	1978 Northern India monsoon rain	India	1978
3,656	1998 Yangtze river flood	China	1998
3,500	1948 Fuzhou flood	China	1948
3,084	1993 South Asian monsoon rain	Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan	1993
3,076	2004 Eastern India, Bangladesh monsoon rain	India, Bangladesh	2004
3,000	1992 Afghanistan flood, mainly, Gulbahar, Kalotak, Shutul, Parwan, flash flood, mudslide	Afghanistan	1992
2,910	1950 Pakistan flood	Pakistan	1950
2,775	1996 China flood, torrential floods, mud-rock flows	China	1996
2,566	1953 Japan flood, mainly Kitakyushu, Kumamoto, Wakayama, Kizugawa, massive rain, flood, mudslide	Japan	1953
2,400	North Sea flood, storm surge	Netherlands	838
2,400	2008 Indian floods by monsoon rain	India	2008
2,379	1988 Bangladesh monsoon rain	Bangladesh	1988
2,200	Johnstown Flood	United States (Pennsylvania)	1889
2,142	North Sea flood of 1953 storm surge	Netherlands, United Kingdom	1953
2,075	1981 Sichuan, Shanxi Flood	China	1981
2,055	1987 Bangladesh monsoon rain	Bangladesh	1987
2,000–5,000 some reports list as many as 12,000 dead	Morvi dam burst	India (Morvi, Gujarat)	1979
2,000–4,000	Huascaran, Ranrahirca landslide by massive avalanche	Peru	1962
1,909	Vajont Dam landslide and flood	Italy	1963
1,834	1992 Pakistan, Northern India monsoon rain	Pakistan, India	1992
1,723	1991 China flood, mainly, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, torrential floods, mud-rock flows	China	1991
1,700	1955 Northern India flood	India	1955
1,624	Fujian, Anhui, Zhejiang flood	China	2005
1,605–3,363	spring flooding	Haiti, Dominican Republic	2004
1,558	St. Martin flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1686
1,532	2002 China flood, torrential floods, mud-rock flows	China	2002
1,503	Mumbai and the surrounding state Maharashtra, Kamataka, monsson rain	India	2005
1,437	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
1,144	2006 Southern Leyte mudslide	Philippines	2006
1,029	2004 China flood, mountain torrents, mud-rock flows, landslide	China	2004
1,000–1,500	Santa Catarina, [1]Tubarão], torrential heavy rain	Brazil	1974
1,000	1961 Bihar flood	India	1961
992	Isahaya, massive rain and mudslide	Japan	1957
941	Inuyama Iruka pond failure	Japan	1868
933	1938 Massive rain of Japan, mainly Tokyo, Kobe, massive rain and landslide	Japan	1938
915	Barcelona, flash flood	Spain	1962
848	1977 Karachi flood	Pakistan	1977
844	2006 North Korea flooding	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
785	1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, flood and landslide	Brazil	1967
705	2006 Ethiopia flood, mainly Omo River Delta, Dire Dawa, Tena, Gode, flash flood, heavyrain	Ethiopia	2006
702	1999 Vietnam flood, mainly occurred at Thua Thien Hue	Vietnam	1999
672	1972 Seoul, Kyonggi flood	South Korea	1972
653	1972 Luzon flood	Philippines	1972
640	1987 Villatina landslide disaster	Colombia	1987
610	2007 North Korea flooding	North Korea	2007
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	Gauldal, landslide	Norway	1345
464	Lisbon flash flood	Portugal	1967
445	Western Japan, massive rain and landslide	Japan	1972
429	2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monssnal rain, flood, landslide	Nepal	2002
425	1999 Mexico flood, mainly occurred at Tabasco, Puebla, Chiapas, flood and mudslide	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
400	St. Francis Dam failure	United States (California)	1928
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
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
300	Quebrada Blanca canyon, landslide	Colombia	1974
300	Pampayacta avalanche	Peru	1963
299	Nagasaki, massive rain and landslide	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
261	Gormec, avalanche	Turkey	1992
259	1966 Maian flood	Jordan	1966
255	1998 Tajikistan flood	Tajikistan	1998
250	Josefina dam failure	Ecuador	1993
238	Rapid City, South Dakota flood	United States	1972
230	Marrakesh flash flood	Morocco	1995
228	2007 Balochistan flood by thunderstorm	Pakistan	2007
200–600	Chungar landslide, flood, avalanche	Peru	1971
200	Pamir Mountain area, mud and rock slides, torrential rain	Tajikistan	1992
190	Huigra, landslide	Ecuador	1931
172	1970 Recife and Pernambco flood	Brazil	1970
165	2004 Brazil flood, mainly Sao Paulo, Pemambuco, torrential rain, mudslide	Brazil	2004
159	Sarno flood and landslide	Italy	1998
154	KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	1995
144	Aberfan disaster	United Kingdom (Wales)	1966
135	Ozengeli, avalanche	Turkey	1993
128	Izumo, massive rain and mudslide	Japan	1964
120	1991 Antofagasta Flood, mud swept	Chile	1991
119	2007 Central and East Java torrential monsson rain, landslide, flood	Indonesia	2007
117	Masuda, massive rain and landslide	Japan	1983
116	Verdal, landslide	Norway	1893
114	Seoul, Inchon, heavy rain	South Korea	1990
110	northern Caucasus, northern Okrug, heavy rain, landslide	Russia	2002
104	1981 Laingsburg flood	South Africa	1981
98	Flood of the millennium	Poland, Czech Republic	1997
94	Mameyes Disaster	Puerto Rico (Ponce)	1985
over 90	Columbus, Ohio flood on March 25, 1913	United States	1913
81	Holmfirth Flood—Bilberry Reservoir dam failure	United Kingdom	1852
80	Johnstown Flood—Failure of Laurel Run Dam and flash flooding	United States	1977
78	Austin Dam failure	United States	1911
73	Kagoshima, mudslide and debris flow	Japan	1993
72	Gudbrandsdalen flood and landslides	Norway	1789
70	2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans	United States	2005
70	Frank Slide, Alberta	Canada	1903
47	McDonald Dam failure	United states	1900
37	Yuba City, California Christmas Eve flood, levee failure	United States	1955
19	North Sea flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1916
16	Brisbane flood	Australia	1974
13	2007 United Kingdom floods	United Kingdom	2007

References

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