This is a list of notable recorded floods that have occurred in Europe.
| Year | Details | Countries | Fatalities | Causes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 120 BCE | probably many thousands | Storm tide | |||
| 589 | |||||
| 1170 | probably many thousands | Storm surge | |||
| 1287 | probably many thousands | Storm surge | |||
| 1287 | - | Storm surge | |||
| 1304 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1342 | heavy rain | ||||
| 1362 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1404 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1421 | - | Storm surge | |||
| 1436 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1530 | many thousands | Storm surge | |||
| 1570 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1609 | disputed - possible tsunami | ||||
| 1634 | - | Storm surge | |||
| 1651 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1703 | - | Storm surge | |||
| 1717 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1738 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 1777 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 1789 | Storofsen[1] | Norway, Denmark | heavy rains and snowmelting | ||
| 1821 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 1824 | Flood | ||||
| 1825 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1829 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 1852 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 1859 | Rain + meltwater | ||||
| 1864 | failure of the Dale Dike Reservoir | ||||
| 1865 | Unknown | Heavy rain | |||
| 1872 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1878 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 1879 | Segura flood | ? | ? | ||
| 1892 | subterranean glacial lake burst | ||||
| 1910 | France | heavy rain and meltwater | |||
| 1910 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 1928 | meltwater + heavy rain + storm surge | ||||
| 1934 | Poland | heavy rain | |||
| 1944 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 1947 | England, Spain, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia[2] | meltwater + heavy rain | |||
| 1952 | heavy rain | ||||
| 1953 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1957 | heavy rains and Turia flood | ||||
| 1959 | Dam failure | ||||
| 1962 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1962 | Catalonia floods | Heavy rain | |||
| 1963 | Italy | a landslide caused a seiche wave and a megatsunami | |||
| 1963 | Guadalquivir flood in Cordoba and Sevilla | Spain | ? | ||
| 1964 | Yugoslavia | Heavy rain | |||
| 1965 | Danube floods in 1965 | heavy rains, Alps snowmelting and dike failure at Číčov | |||
| 1966 | Italy | heavy rains and snowmelting | |||
| 1967 | Portugal | heavy rains | |||
| 1968 | United Kingdom, France | heavy rains and thunderstorms | |||
| 1970 | heavy rains and snowmelting | ||||
| 1976 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1978 | Storm surge | ||||
| 1981 | Storm surge + meltwater | ||||
| 1985 | Italy | the reservoir breached its dam. | |||
| 1987 | Italy | heavy rain | |||
| 1994 | Italy | heavy rain for three days lead to extreme discharge of tributaries of Po river | |||
| 1997 | Czech Republic, Poland | extensive rain periods | |||
| 1998 | Slovakia | heavy rainfall plus collapse of dam formed by debris | |||
| 1999 | Austria, Germany | heavy rainfall plus Alpine meltwater | |||
| 1999 | Storm tide | ||||
| 2000 | United Kingdom, Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Slovenia | heavy rains | |||
| 2002 | heavy rains | ||||
| 2002 | United Kingdom | heavy rains | |||
| 2004 | United Kingdom | heavy rains | |||
| 2005 | Romania, Switzerland, Austria and Germany | Record rain | |||
| 2006 | Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary | poorly constructed dikes and levees and an unusual long and hard winter | |||
| 2007 | Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and United Kingdom | storm tide | |||
| 2007 | United Kingdom | heavy rain | |||
| 2008 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2008 | heavy rain | ||||
| 2009 | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland | heavy rains | |||
| 2009 | Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey | heavy rains | |||
| 2009 | heavy rain | ||||
| 2009 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2009 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2010 | Poland, Hungary | Heavy rain | |||
| 2010 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2010 | France | Heavy rain | |||
| 2010 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2011 | Ireland, Italy, France | Heavy rain | |||
| 2011 | Storm surge | ||||
| 2012 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2012 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2012 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2013 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2013 | 2013 floods in Rhodes,Greece | Greece | Heavy rain | ||
| 2014 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Romania | Heavy rain | |||
| 2014 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2016 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2016 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2016 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2017 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2018 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2019 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2019 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2020 | 2020 floods in Evia,Greece | Greece | Heavy rain | ||
| 2020 | Heavy rain, storm surge | ||||
| 2020 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2021 | 2021 Evros floods | Greece, Turkey | Heavy rain | ||
| 2021 | Heavy rain | ||||
| 2021 | 2021 Turkish floods | Turkey | Heavy rain | ||
| 2021 | 2021 floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Heavy rain | ||
| 2023 | 2023 Emilia-Romagna floods | Emilia-Romagna, Italy | Heavy rains caused by Storm Minerva | ||
| 2023 | 2023 Carinthia and Slovenia floods | Slovenia | Heavy rains | ||
| 2023 | 2023 Danube floods | Hungary | Heavy rains | ||
| 2024 | 2024 Germany floods | Germany | 1 | Heavy rains |