Quick guide: Dealing with flash floods

This series of quick guides equips local and regional authorities with practical tools to enhance climate resilience. Each guide addresses a specific hazard, offering clear, actionable advice through infographics, checklists, case studies, and key resources-making complex challenges easier to understand and act upon.

It offers recommendations on how to take action, such as: 

• Understand your flood risks: data, maps and tools
• Dealing with flash floods EU-wide knowledge for local and regional authorities If you are in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta and Romania, find out if your municipality is within a flash flood risk area, with more details in the official flood hazard and risk maps of your country/region.