Editing Flood (section)

==== Loss of life ====
{{Main|List of deadliest floods}}

Below is a list of the deadliest floods worldwide, showing events with death tolls at or above 100,000 individuals.
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|- style="background:#ccc;"
! Death toll !! Event !!Location !!Year
|-
||2,500,000–3,700,000<ref>[http://www.nbc10.com/news/4030540/detail.html Worst Natural Disasters In History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421043514/http://www.nbc10.com/news/4030540/detail.html|date=2008-04-21}} (2012-06-07), Retrieved on 2012-06-12</ref> || [[1931 China floods]] || [[China]] || 1931
|-
||900,000–2,000,000 || [[1887 Yellow River flood]] || [[China]] || 1887
|-
||500,000–700,000 || [[1938 Yellow River flood]] || China || 1938
|-
||231,000 || [[Banqiao Dam]] failure, result of [[Typhoon Nina (1975)|Typhoon Nina]]. Approximately 86,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died from subsequent disease. || China || 1975
|-
||230,000 || [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|2004 Indian Ocean tsunami]] || [[Indonesia]] || 2004
|-
||145,000 || 1935 [[Yangtze]] river flood || China || 1935
|-
||100,000+ || [[St. Felix's flood]], [[storm surge]]|| [[Netherlands]] || 1530
|-
||100,000 || [[Hanoi]] and [[Red River Delta]] flood || [[North Vietnam]] || 1971
|-
||100,000 || 1911 [[Yangtze]] river flood || China || 1911
|}