Atlas of Flood Maps

EU Flood Risk Maps Q4310 September, 2007
Examples from EU countries
WL | Delft Hydraulics
Croatia is one of the few countries that provides flood damage maps and in Figure 4.19 and
Figure 4.20 a land cover map and flood damage map are shown for the same river basin. In
general the areas that are expected to witness damage during an event with a return period of
1/1000 years correspond with the flood extension map in Figure 4.18. In addition to that,
although the flood damage map lacks a legend, it is evident that the darker red colours
correspond to higher expected damage as these areas coincide with the settlements (Naselja
in Croatian) on the landcover map.
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