Fluvial floods can lead to significant economic impacts by damaging infrastructure, disrupting businesses, and imposing substantial costs on communities for recovery and resilience efforts. The Fluvial Flood Historical Baseline Risk dataset captures historical risk of fluvial flooding across the world using inundation data derived from historical streamflow data. This product can be used to assess both the relative and absolute risk of fluvial flood at different locations.
The Fluvial Flood Historical Risk product captures the recent near-historical risk of fluvial (riverine) flooding across the world using inundation data derived from historical streamflow data. By combining multiple fluvial flood extent maps across different return periods, we can understand the annual probability of fluvial flood occurring at locations across the globe. This product can be used to assess both the relative and absolute risk of fluvial flood at different locations.