Insurers count cost of European floods

Efforts are continuing to find more victims and clean up the mess left behind by devastating floods that struck western Germany, eastern Belgium, the Netherlands and elsewhere


Flood-affected areas, Jul 15-16

NETHERLANDS 
BELGIUM
River Meuse
Liège
Pepinster
LUX.
Dortmund
Düsseldorf
GERMANY
Cologne Erftstadt 
River Rhine
Schuld 
Koblenz
River Ahr
Trier
30km 20 miles


Death toll (July 19) 
Germany: 163 
Belgium: 31


Record rainfall and floods have caused Germany’s worst natural disaster for decades

Most expensive natural disasters in Germany since 2002


						Date	Insured damage (€bn, 2019 prices)
August floods, including Oder river		Aug 2002	4.5
Storm Kyrill					Jan 2007	3.4
Hailstorms Andreas and Bernd			Jul 2013	3.1
June floods, including Bavaria and Saxony 	Jun 2013	2.1
Hailstorms, mainly in southern Germany 		Jun 2021	1.7*
Storm Jeanett					Oct 2002	1.4	
Hailstorm Hilal 				May 2008	1.3
      

*Preliminary estimate


Sources: AP, Reuters, WSJ
Picture: Getty Images
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