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Flood Impacts

Flood Fatalities

Flood Damages

 In most years, flooding causes more deaths and damage than any other hydro meteorological phenomena. In many years it is common for three-quarters of all Federally declared disaster declarations to be due, at least in part, to flooding.

 
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