Unlike in previous years, there were no mega-disasters in industrialised countries that drove losses up. Instead, the loss statistics were characterised by the large number of severe regional storms.
Italy: Floods - May 2023
Disaster description
In a span of 6 days, from 01 May 2023 to 17 May 2023, there were two consecutive events in Emilia-Romagna that resulted in a total of 80 hours of rainfall. After the first event, managed at the regional and local levels, applying the contingency plans previously defined, and closed a second, out-of-scale event, happened. There have been 379 landslides in 57 municipalities, with 672 road closures, including 414 complete closures, leaving parts of the rural area isolated. There are 23,000 evacuees distributed among Ravenna, Forlì, Bologna, and Rimini. In Conselice, due to the particular geographical situation, the community has been hit three times. Strong intervention is also needed in Faenza, where water has reached the second floor of some houses.. (IFRC, 2 June 2023)
