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  2. Category:Floods in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; Ohio River flood of 1937; 1954 floods of Northeastern Illinois; Great Flood of 1993; 2007 Midwest flooding; June 2008 Midwest floods; 2011 Mississippi River floods; 2013 Midwestern U.S. floods; July–August 2022 United States floods; July 2023 Chicago Area Flood; July 2023 Western Kentucky floods

  3. List of deadliest floods - Wikipedia

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    1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide Brazil: 1967 431 St. Francis Dam failure United States 1928 431 2015 Tamil Nadu floods Chennai, Cuddalore and Andhra Pradesh named 2015 South Indian floods: India: 2015 429 2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monssnal rain, flood, landslide Nepal: 2002 425

  4. 1954 floods of Northeastern Illinois - Wikipedia

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    This event previously held the state record for a 24-hour rainfall at an official climate station in Illinois with 10.58 inches (26.9 cm) recorded at Aurora, Illinois. This record was exceeded just a few years later by a heavy rain event east of St. Louis, only to be superseded by another heavy rainfall event in and near Aurora in 1996. [1]

  5. List of floods - Wikipedia

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    It was one of the worst floods in history. The Ohio River flood of 1937 occurred in late January and February 1937, causing damage along the Ohio River and several smaller tributaries from Pittsburgh, Illinois, to Cairo, Illinois. This flood left close to one million people homeless, 385 dead, and $50,000,000 worth of damage.

  6. Category:Natural disasters in Illinois - Wikipedia

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  7. Great Flood of 1993 - Wikipedia

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    Within this zone, the flooded area totaled around 30,000 square miles (78,000 km 2) [3] and was the worst such U.S. disaster since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, as measured by duration, area inundated, persons displaced, crop and property damage, and number of record river levels. In some categories, the 1993 flood even surpassed the ...

  8. Category:Disasters in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    This category includes articles on disasters in the United States State of Illinois Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disasters and accidents in Illinois . Subcategories

  9. Floods in the United States (1900–1999) - Wikipedia

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    Napa, north of San Francisco, recorded their worst flood to this time [85] while nearby Calistoga recorded 736 mm (29.0 in) of rain in 10 days, creating a once-in-a-thousand-year rainfall event. [83] Records for 24 hour rain events were reported in the Central Valley and in the Sierra Nevada. One thousand-year rainfalls were recorded in the ...