This information is a provisional estimate based on the first available Copernicus data.
More than 200 people have died in the devastating floods that have taken place in recent days in Spain and which have particularly affected the Valencian Community. The storm left historic records of rainfall and the flooding left images of mud and sediment inundations across the entire Valencian coast.
The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) has published a first estimate of the areas affected by flooding during DANA in the province of Valencia. According to an analysis by elDiario.es of this first estimate of the area devastated by DANA crossed with the cadastral information of hundreds of thousands of buildings, at least 77,000 homes were affected by the floods.
The following map prepared by elDiario.es allows us to locate where the buildings affected by DANA are located according to the first calculations of the Copernicus system from satellite images, which until November 2 at noon include only those produced in the province of Valence.
Source: Ministry of Ecological Transition, Land Registry
The data on the map above are provisional figures estimated by the Copernicus emergency management system. It must be taken into account that these are provisional figures since they only take into account areas identified as flooded or with remnants of flooding based on satellite images. That is to say, their analysis may have left out areas that are little visible or little analyzed by the European emergency agency.
According to initial estimates from Copernicus, at least 190,000 people were affected by the floods which affected an area of more than 50,000 hectares throughout the province.
In which municipalities are the civilian areas most affected? Provisional calculations carried out by elDiario.es based on the areas identified by the Copernicus system and information from hundreds of thousands of buildings indicate that in Xirivella and Paiporta more than 10,000 homes are affected and in many municipalities such as Picanya , Alcúdia or Beniparrell, more than 90% of housing is located in areas affected by flooding.
In the following table you can see how many households have been affected by DANA since the beginning.
