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1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide Brazil: 1967 431 St. Francis Dam failure United States 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
The Vermont flood of 1927 is probably the worst flood in Vermont history doing $30 million in damages, which would be $270 million today, killed over 83 people and left 9,000 homeless. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was one of the most destructive floods in United States history.
Estimated deaths ranged from 1800 to 25,000 people. Considered worst flash flood of history. 24 July 1982: 299 heavy rain maximum 187 millimetres (7.4 in) rainfall per an hour in Nagayo, Nagasaki, floods, landslides, and bridge, house, buildings collapses occur simultaneously in the suburbs of Nagasaki, Kyushu Island, Japan [4] 19 November 1983: 10
Caused the worst flooding recorded in the Carolinas prior to Hurricane Florence in 2018. [14] 2015 Flood: 20 2015 Utah floods: Utah: 2015 Wildfire: 3 $8 billion Okanogan Complex fire: Okanogan County, Washington: Damage figure includes costs involved in the fighting of the fire. 2015 Flood: 46 2015 Texas–Oklahoma floods: Texas, Kansas ...
Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the ...
Napa, north of San Francisco, recorded their worst flood to this time [85] while nearby Calistoga recorded 736 mm (29.0 in) of rain in 10 days, creating a once-in-a-thousand-year rainfall event. [83] Records for 24 hour rain events were reported in the Central Valley and in the Sierra Nevada. One thousand-year rainfalls were recorded in the ...
Lists of floods in the United States provide overviews of major floods in the United States. They are organized by time period: before 1901, from 1901 to 2000, and from 2001 to the present. They are organized by time period: before 1901, from 1901 to 2000, and from 2001 to the present.
The Bhola cyclone is the deadliest tropical cyclone on record and also one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. A comparable number of people died as a result of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake , 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake , but because of uncertainty in the number of deaths in all four disasters ...