Pluvial flooding and flash floods due to intense rainfall constitute most flood events in SEU and a substantial risk in other European regions . The majority  of flood events between 1860 and 2016 were flash floods . These floods had considerable impacts including danger to human lives, for example, causing total economic damage of 1 billion USD in Copenhagen  in 2011 , damage to private households of more than 70 million EUR in Münster  in 2014  and during the 2021 floods in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands over 200 deaths, damage to thousands of homes and disrupted water and electricity supply . The intensity and frequency of heavy rainfall events is projected to increase  . Combined with
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