Last updated 9:00 PM EST, May 19, 2006 by ERG
1992 Global Register of Major Flood Events - Scroll Down and Look For Links to Maps In The Country Column
DFO #	Country	Detailed Locations	Rivers	Began	Ended	Duration (days)	Dead	Displaced	Damage (USD)	Main cause	Secoary cause	Recurrence Interval (anecdotal)	Severity Class*	Hectares flooded	Hayden Code	Affected Region ( sq km)	Flood Magnitude**	MODIS flood inuation limit file names***	Notes and Comments
115	Zimbabwe	Muzarabani communal lands, Masvingo, Bulawayo		25-Dec-92	27-Dec-92	3	1	250		Heavy rain		75	2			140,700	8.2		Worst flood in memory.
114	Iran	Provinces - Fars, Kerman, Hormuzgan, Sistan va Baluchestan		23-Dec-92	25-Dec-92	3	14	3,600		Heavy rain			1			626,100	8.7		900 houses destroyed.
113	Philippines	Mindanao Provinces - Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Surigao del Sur		22-Dec-92	27-Dec-92	6	6	22,000	$           2,300,000	Heavy rain			1			15,080	2.2		The floods devastated at least 32 villages and damaged infrastructure, crops, livestock, houses.
112	Sri Lanka	North, North-Central, and Eastern Provinces - Valaichchenai, Batticaloa, Horowpathana		17-Dec-92	19-Dec-92	3				Monsoonal rain			1			29,670	1.9		Affected 18,700 families.
111	England, Wales	Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bristol, Tredegar, Gwent, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan	Severn, Lune	30-Nov-92	3-Dec-92	4		400		Heavy rain		See notes	1			25,630	2.2		One of the wettest autumns on record.  In Gloucestershire, the river Severn burst its banks causing road chaos awidespread flooding.  A 25-mile stretch of the river between Gloucester and the Severn Bridge overflowed with the Lydney area worst affected.
110	USA	Florida - St.Vincent Island		29-Nov-92	29-Nov-92	1	3			Tropical cyclone			1			80	0.0
109	Thailand - Typhoon Forrest	6 Southern provinces		29-Nov-92	29-Nov-92	1	3			Tropical cyclone			1			25,180	0.2
106	Albania	Kruja, Lac, Lezha, Shkdora, Tropja, Mirdita	Mati, Fani, Drimi	17-Nov-92	19-Nov-92	3	7	2,000	$           7,000,000	Brief torrential rain		30	2	17,000		5,620	1.6
105	Montenegro	Mojkovac	Tara	10-Nov-92	15-Nov-92	6				Heavy rain			1			1,280	0.6		Flooding of the Tara River caused damage to the Mojkavac Dam.  The dam prevents large amounts of highly toxic waste from endangering people and the environment.
104	Italy	Tuscany - Poggio a Caiano, Florence	Arno	31-Oct-92	31-Oct-92	1		1,000		Heavy rain			1			3,330	0.1		3 ft of water in the streets of Poggio a Caiano.
103	Philippines, Vietnam - Typhoon Colleen	Philippines: Luzon - Mount Pinatubo, Manila, Quezon city Vientnam - central coast		28-Oct-92	30-Oct-92	3	3	3,300		Tropical cyclone			1			56,290	2.6
102	Vietnam, Thailand - Typhoon Angela	Vietnam: Quang Binh, Quang Tri; 8 coastal provinces Thailand: Provinces - Surat Thani, Chumphon, Nakhon Si Thammarat		28-Oct-92	31-Oct-92	4	49	3,000		Tropical cyclone			1			69,560	3.7		Vietnam - destroyed crops covering thousands of acres and swept away hundreds of houses and bridges.
101	England	South East - London, Kent, Essex		20-Oct-92	21-Oct-92	2	3			Heavy rain			1			12,300	0.8		2 inches of rain in some places.
100	Australia	Kangaroo Creek, near Adelaide		10-Oct-92	11-Oct-92	2		280		Heavy rain			1			6,760	0.6
99	Montenegro (Yugoslavia)	Kolasin, Mojkovac, Bijelo Polje, Savnik, Berani, Niksic, Pluzani, Danilovgrad		6-Oct-92	18-Oct-92	13	6	6,140		Heavy rain			1			14,390	3.1
98	Vietnam	Provinces - Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam-Da Nang		5-Oct-92	9-Oct-92	5	55	7,579		Heavy rain			1	55,000		51,510	3.7
96	France, Italy, Spain	France: Riviera, Nice, Monaco Italy: Piemonte, Veneto, Lazio, Campania, Genoa Northeastern Spain		28-Sep-92	8-Oct-92	11	12	120		Heavy rain			1			135,600	8.8
95	Italy	Genoa		28-Sep-92	28-Sep-92	1	2			Heavy rain			1			4,080	0.1
94	Iran	Caspian Sea Coastline		28-Sep-92	29-Sep-92	2				Heavy rain			1			24,060	1.1		2,700 buildings damaged - schools, factories, warehouses waterlogged; farms flooded.
93	El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico	El Salvador: Southeast Departments - La Union, San Miguel, Usulatan, San Viciente, La Paz Mexico: Mexco City, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Guerrero, Vera Cruz		28-Sep-92	2-Oct-92	5	7	8,000		Heavy rain			1			94,600	5.0
92	France	Southern France and Corsica: Languedoc-Roussillon Province - Aude Region, Pyreness-Orientales Region, Rennes-les-Bains		27-Sep-92	27-Sep-92	1	3			Heavy rain			1			23,380	0.1
91	France	Southeast Provinces - Alpes Cote d'Azur, Rhone Alpes (Vaison-la-Romaine, Auvignon, Gigondas)	Drome, Ardeche	22-Sep-92	22-Sep-92	1	38	2,000		Brief torrential rain		34	2			22,750	0.3		Deadliest in 34 years.
90	Nigeria	Adamawa State - Mubi area; Borno State - Madagali		22-Sep-92	23-Sep-92	2	9	13,000		Heavy rain			1			42,370	1.4		Property worth millions of naira including foodstuff and liverstock were destroyed in the flood.
89	England, Wales	Midlands, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, East Anglia		21-Sep-92	26-Sep-92	6				Heavy rain		40	2			111,300	12.0		Some villages flooded with up to 3 feet of water.
88	Ethiopia	Regions - Illubaro, Kefa (Gambella)	Baro	20-Sep-92	24-Sep-92	5		300		Heavy rain			1			87,640	4.8
87	Mexico	Veracruz, Oaxaca, Puebla, Campeche, Yucatan	Rio Papaloapan	17-Sep-92	18-Sep-92	2	2			Heavy rain			1			182,400	3.0
86	India, Sri Lanka	India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh		12-Sep-92	20-Nov-92	70	263	20,000		Tropical cyclone			2	7,000 </