Flood hazard of major river segments, Benevento Province, Southern Italy

Luigi Guerriero, Mariano Focareta, Gennaro Fusco, Raffaele Rabuano, Francesco M. Guadagno and Paola Revellino

Journal of Maps, 2018, vol. 14, issue 2, 597-606

Abstract: On 15 October 2015, a storm-induced flood hit the central sector of Benevento Province (southern Italy) causing two deaths and severe damage to infrastructure, buildings and local agriculture. This area has a long history of similar events and since 1924 its major river segments have been monitored with several hydrometric stations. We used data from two of these stations and a LiDAR derived high-resolution topography to develop a flood hazard map. For map computation, we first derived a flood inundation map from topography. Subsequently we estimated the probability of exceedance of each specific fluvial stage from the combination of a Generalized Extreme Value and a Gamma fits of available hydrometric data. As boundary condition, we considered a reference scenario corresponding to an estimated 500 year flood. The hazard maps provide an overview of the flood hazard in the central sector of Benevento Province and floodplains zonation in flood perspective.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2018.1526718

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