EEA potential flood-prone area extent
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DAT-231-en
Created 31 Jan 2020
Published 31 Jan 2020
Last modified 31 Jan 2020
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Water and marine environment
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The EEA potential flood prone area extent delineates the area that is flooded once every 100 years, i.e. the probability of flooding is 1% assuming that flooding is unrestricted. The potential flood prone area is comprised of the river channel and floodplain. In reality, the floodplain is split into an active floodplain where flooding still occurs, and former floodplain where flooding is restricted due to flood protection. The former floodplain could be flooded again either if a flood exceeds the capacity of flood protection, or if factors that control the presence of water were removed. These factors include channel and floodplain morphological alterations as well as structural flood protection measures.
The spatial coverage of the data set is EEA39 countries.
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EEA potential flood-prone area extent
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Reporting obligations (ROD)
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- Not applicable
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Temporal coverage:
- 2011-2016
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Geographic coverage:
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Tags:
- flood probability , flood prone , potential flood
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Rights:
- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Data sources
JRC flood hazard map for Europe 100-year return period, “Copernicus Potential Riparian Zone layer” from the ‘Delineation of Riparian Zone’ data set.
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Processors:
- European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ICM)
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