Analysis of pluvial flood damage based on data from insurance companies in the Netherlands

Analysis of pluvial flood damage based on data from insurance companies in the Netherlands

Spekkers, M.H.
Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E.
Kok, M.
Clemens, F.H.L.R.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Watermanagement and Hydraulic Engineering

2011-01-01

Insurance databases form a promising data source that can be used to improve pluvial flood damage estimations. This paper describes the key characteristics of an insurance database on water related damages to private buildings and content in the Netherlands that has been made available for research. The paper presents preliminary results of a case study where insurance data are explored to find relationships between rainfall characteristics and pluvial flood damage. The results show that variations in damage are partly related to rainfall characteristics. More research on rainfall characteristics and other explanatory variables of flood damage is needed to capture the processes causing damage.

rainfall
flood damage
insurance
flood management

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Technische Universitat Graz

9783851251739

Proceedings International Symposium Urban Flood Risk Management, UFRIM, 2011, September 21-23, Graz, Austria (Zenz, G, Hornich, R., ed.)

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conference paper

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