Flood maps 2019 — Coastal floods

Since 26 November 2007, the EU’s Flood Risk Assessment and Management Directive (HWRL) has been in force. The objective of the HWRL is to provide a framework for the assessment and management of flood risks to reduce the adverse effects of floods on human health, the environment, cultural heritage and economic activities in the Community. The aim of the HWRL is to reduce flood risks through cross-border flood protection in river basin districts, including coastal areas, and to improve flood prevention and risk management. The aim of the implementation is to improve the self-reliance of municipalities and the citizens concerned. The first reporting cycle was completed with the preliminary assessment of the flood risk and the determination of the areas for which “a potentially significant flood risk exists or likely to be considered” (Articles 4 and 5) until 22.12.2011, the preparation of flood hazard and flood risk maps (Article 6) until 22.12.2013 and the preparation of flood risk management plans (Art.7) by 22.12.2015. Article 14 of the HWRL provides that in the second reporting cycle: — the preliminary assessment of the flood risk or the assessment and decisions referred to in Article 13(1) until 22.12.2018; — the flood risk maps and flood risk maps until 22.12.2019; and — flood risk management plans, including the elements described in Part B of the Annex, by 22.12.2021 and then reviewed every six years and, if necessary, updated. The reviews shall take into account the likely impact of climate change on the occurrence of floods. The results must be made available to the European Commission within three months of the above dates by 22.03. of the following year. The **flood hazard maps** referred to in Article 6(3) of the HWRL cover the geographical areas that could be flooded according to the following scenarios: 1. Low probability floods or extreme events scenarios; 2. Medium probability floods; 3. Floods, if necessary, are highly likely. The flood hazard maps indicate for each scenario (paragraph 4): 1. The extent of the flooding; 2. Water depth or, where applicable, water level. For already sufficiently protected coastal areas (paragraph 6), the creation of flood hazard maps can be limited to an extreme event. In addition, SH presents the above three flood scenarios in all other areas not sufficiently protected. **Flood risk maps** are prepared on the basis of flood hazard maps for the same flood scenarios. In addition to flood hazards (flood expansion and depth), the flood-related adverse effects (significance criteria) are to be presented. Article 6(5) of the HWRL sets out the necessary information: 1. Number of potentially affected inhabitants; 2. The nature of the economic activities in the potentially affected area; 3. Installations of Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions (IED) and potentially affected protected areas referred to in points 1(i), (iii) and (v) of Annex IV to Directive 2000/60/EC 4. further information which the Member State considers useful, such as the indication of areas where floods with a high content of sediments and debris may occur, and information on other significant sources of pollution. **Note to the dates** For a complete picture of flood risks, these two data sets should be taken into account: — Coastal floods — this dataset — [river flood](/dataset/flood maps-2019 river floods) The ArcMap projects (mxd files) are provided in version 10.2. **Please note the [information and description of the data](https://opendatarepo.lsh.uni-kiel.de/data/melund_wasser/nutzungshinweise_hochwasserkarten.pdf).**