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This list of floods records serious flooding incidents which have multiple fatalities or some other significance. This list records floods from the year 2000. For earlier floods, see list of floods (before 2000).

Notable floods
2000s: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020s: 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029
References

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2000s

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2000

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2001

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  • 5 June – United States – Tropical Storm Allison. Following a tropical cyclone, flooding hit Louisiana and Texas, where it killed 27 people and caused $9 billion in damage.[6]
  • 10 November – Algeria – Flooding in Algiers, particularly the neighbourhood of Bab El Oued, killed 751 people and caused over $300 million in damage.[7]

2002

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2003

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2004

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2005

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2006

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2007

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  • 2 February – Indonesia – 2007 Jakarta flood. Flooding in Indonesia's largest city and capital killed 80 people.[31]
  • 1 June – United Kingdom – 2007 United Kingdom floods. Flooding across the UK killed 13 people.[32]
  • 3 July – South Asia – 2007 South Asian floods. Monsoon rains and snow melt caused floods in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan which killed over 3,000 people.[33]
  • 3 July – Sudan – 2007 Sudan floods. Flash floods caused by heavy rains killed 122 people and made at least 200,000 homeless.[34]
  • 26 July – China – Floods across China killed 1,348 people and caused $10 billion in damage.[35]
  • 7 August – North Korea – 2007 North Korean floods. Heavy rains caused floods in parts of North Korea including its capital city Pyongyang, which killed at least 600 people.[36]
  • 17 August – China – 2007 Shandong coal mine flood. A burst levee flooded two mine shafts in Xintai, trapping 181 miners who are all presumed dead.[37]
  • 17 August – United States – 2007 Midwest flooding. Repeated flash flooding in the Midwest killed 25 people.[38]
  • 20 November – Papua New Guinea – Cyclone Guba. Flooding in the aftermath of a cyclone killed over 200 people.[39]

2008

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2009

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2010s

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2010

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2011

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2012

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2013

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2014

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2015

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2016

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2017

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2018

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  • 16 August – India – 2018 Kerala floods. Unusually heavy rainfall caused floods in the state of Kerala which killed over 483 people.[66]

2019

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2020s

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2020

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  • 27 May – South Asia – 2020 South Asian floods. Heavy monsoons in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka spawned floods which killed 3,386 people.[67]

2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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References

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  68. ^ "NDMA Floods (2022) SITREP - 2022" (PDF). National Disaster Management Authority. 18 November 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
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