List of floods

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.

In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide.

Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health.

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Contemporary picture of the flood that struck the North Sea coast of Germany and Denmark in October 1634
The Christmas flood of 1717
Floods in Saint Petersburg on 19 November 1824
Great Flood of 1862
1910 Great Flood of Paris
View of flooded New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina .
Fighting the 1954 Yangtze Flood, as depicted on a monument in Wuhan
Picture show at heavy rain, following flood in Shira River, Kumamoto , Kyushu , July 2012
Llanrwst from the air during December 2015 flooding.
On the left is a photo taken during the 1998 floods in Swifts Creek in Australia. On the right is the same location 8 years later