Due to the currently prevailing flood situation in Germany, a 20 to 50-year flood is expected for the federal state of Saarland. The 1st wave will peak between 02.01.2024 around 18:00 and 03.01.2024 06:00, the 2nd wave is expected to peak in the night from 03....

On the 24 December 2023, flood events are forecast and expected over state of Lower Saxony in North West part of Germany. Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping is requested to provide initial rough estimation and flood extent emergency mapping.

On 19 October 2023, coastal flooding was reported to have affected especially the State of Schleswig Holstein, Germany. The event is ongoing, water levels are still rising with an expected peak of up to 2.0 m above average in the late evening of 20.10.2023, an...

Activation date: 2022-04-12 Event type: Flood Activation reason: This Copernicus EMS Risk & Recovery Mapping STD activation was triggered by Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), Germany on behalf of The Technical Reli...

Activation date: 2021-08-16 Event type: Flood Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated for a retrospective assessment of the flood event that took place in Solingen (North Rhine Westphalia area, Germany). A series of ...

Activation date: 2018-10-02 Event type: Flood Activation reason: In June 2013,  wide flooding and consequent damage and losses occurred in Central Europe, affecting especially Southern and Eastern Germany and some areas in Czech Republic, Austri...

Activation time (UTC): 2021-07-13 17:11:00 Event time (UTC): 2021-07-13 16:00:00 Event type: Flood (Riverine flood) Activation reason: Heavy rains affected Rhineland-Palatinate area where a severe flood event is expected over the next few days along the...

Activation date: 2021-04-29 Event type: Flood Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated for a retrospective assessment of two floods waves registered in the upper reaches of two rivers, Nidder and Seemenbach, located i...

Activation date: 2021-03-29 Event type: Flood Activation reason: The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated by the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) on behalf of Bezirksregierung Münster, for a retrospe...

Activation time (UTC): 2021-02-01 13:42:00 Event time (UTC): 2021-02-01 12:00:00 Event type: Flood (Riverine flood) Activation reason: Strong thawing and rainfall beginning in the last days of January 2021 and ongoing resulted in moderate floodings espe...

Activation time (UTC): 2013-06-17 16:30:00 Event time (UTC): 2013-06-17 16:00:00 Event type: Flood Activation reason: Heavy rain in recent days hit Sachsen-Anhalt region in particular the city of Fischbeck and Bridenhagen and caused flooding Referenc...

Activation time (UTC): 2017-07-27 08:16:00 Event time (UTC): 2017-07-27 08:00:00 Event type: Flood (Riverine flood) Activation reason: Rain is set to fall across nearly every part of the country on Tuesday and has already hit northern and central areas ...

Activation time (UTC): 2016-06-02 15:06:00 Event time (UTC): 2016-06-01 00:00:00 Event type: Flood Activation reason: A state of emergency was declared following flash floods and flooding caused by heavy rains in Bavaria, in the southeast of Germany. Th...

Activation time (UTC): 2013-06-03 09:20:00 Event time (UTC): 2013-06-02 22:00:00 Event type: Flood Activation reason: Heavy rains in central and western Europe have been causing floods on major rivers (Elbe, Danube, Moldava). Reference products: 16 ...

Activation time (UTC): 2018-05-25 12:44:00 Event time (UTC): 2018-05-24 11:00:00 Event type: Flood (Flash flood) Activation reason: In the area of Saxony flash floods occured between 24. and 25.05.2018. Some damages in the Vogtlandkreis had been reporte...

Activation time (UTC): 2018-09-05 19:30:00 Event time (UTC): 2018-09-02 06:59:00 Event type: Flood (Flash flood) Activation reason: After extensive and heavy raining the town of Tegernbach, municipally of Rudelzhausen, federal state of Bavaria, most of ...

Activation time (UTC): 2017-12-14 21:47:00 Event time (UTC): 2017-12-14 20:47:00 Event type: Flood (Riverine flood) Activation reason: Since 25.11.2017 there is an ongoing flooding event in Lower Saxony, Germany. In order to assess the current situation...

Activation time (UTC): 2020-08-04 16:05:00 Event time (UTC): 2020-08-04 12:00:00 Event type: Flood (Riverine flood) Activation reason: Over the last hours heavy rains triggered flooding of the river Inn within the free state of Bavaria. Additional rainf...

Activation date: 2017-12-06 Event type: Flood Activation reason: The scope of the service request was to generate reference information, concerning flood events that occurred from July 25 to July 27 2017, within the Hildesheim district of the Lower S...