EM-DAT: Italy Natural Disaster Impact and Economic Loss Data

Delivering aggregated statistics on natural hazard events in Italy, produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). It tracks the frequency and impact of disasters by year and subtype, including human casualties and financial damages. The records are maintained as part of the EM-DAT project and were last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of specific 'disaster subtype' occurrences in Italy over time
• Calculating the average 'total number of deaths' per hazard type for risk assessment
• Correlating 'economic losses' with specific years to evaluate the financial impact of climate-related events

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial analysis
• Categorizes events by specific disaster subtype for granular hazard tracking
• Sourced from the authoritative EM-DAT international disaster database

Limitations

• Aggregated at the national level, lacking sub-national or regional geographic coordinates
• Economic loss data for older historical records may be less complete than recent entries

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT global database of disaster events

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026, reflecting recent historical data.

Geography

Italy