📚 Floods

Water out of its banks: the great recorded floods, floodplain life, and the engineering that promises more every century.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject floods in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Wild weather	Lorraine Jean Hopping	1994	11
	Flood Control on the Mississippi River	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control	1932	9
	Flood of January 5-6, 1992, in Puerto Rico	Heriberto Torres-Sierra	1996	9
	History of the Johnstown flood	Willis Fletcher Johnson	1889	8
	The " 100-year flood"	Karen Dinicola	1997	8
	Raging Floods (Awesome Forces of Nature)	Louise Spilsbury	2003	8
	Flood plain information	United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Portland District.	1964	7
	The Johnstown flood	David McCullough	1968	7
	Flood hazard management	John W. Handmer	1987	7
	Rising tide	John M. Barry	1997	7
	Flood of January 19-20, 1996 in New York State	Richard Lumia	1998	7
	Near-real-time simulation and internet-based delivery of forecast-flood inundation maps using two-dimensional hydraulic modeling	Joseph L. Jones	2002	7
	Tsunamis and Floods (Graphic Natural Disasters)	Gary Jeffrey	2007	7
	Cleansing the World	Blake A. Hoena	2017	7
	What Are Floods?	Mari C. Schuh	2019	7
	The Lynmouth flood disaster	Eric R. Delderfield	1953	6
	Flood-frequency relations for urban streams in Georgia	Ernest J. Inman	1988	6
	Flood of September 7-9, 1987, in Lexington and Richland counties in the vicinity of Saint Andrews Road and Irmo, South Carolina	Wladmir B. Guimaraes	1989	6
	Flood of May 19-20, 1990, in the vicinity of Hot Springs, Arkansas	Rodney E. Southard	1992	6
	Flood of March 1997 in southern Ohio	K. Scott Jackson	1997	6
	Base (100-year) flood elevations for selected sites in Montgomery County, Missouri	Rodney E. Southard	1998	6
	Floods	Dennis J. Parker	2000	6
	Flood! (Nature's Fury)	Anita Ganeri	2006	6
	Numerical Modelling of Ice Floods in the Ning-Meng Reach of the Yellow River Basin	Chunqing Wang	2018	6
	The Johnstown Horror !!!, or, Valley of Death	James Herbert Walker	1889	5
	Flood estimation and control	Bertram Darell Richards	1944	5
	The Buffalo Creek disaster	Gerald M. Stern	1976	5
	Flood-hazard mapping in Honduras in response to Hurricane Mitch	M. C. Mastin	2002	5
	World's Worst Floods	John R. Baker	2016	5
	Flood of June 14-15, 1990, in Belmont, Jefferson, and Harrison counties, Ohio, with emphasis on Pipe and Wegee Creek basins near Shadyside	Harold L. Shindel	1991	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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