Damage induce by utmost weather in the Netherlands will transcend € 886 million in 2022 , the gamey amount of ensure damage since 2007 . This is fit in to the annual Climate Damage Monitor by the Verbond van Verzekeraars . The Verbond van Verzekeraars report that the monitor evidence indemnification due to lightning , hail , precipitation , flooding , frost , and storms from 2007 to 2022 .
February stormsThe majuscule damage was because of the ternary tempest in February : Eunice , Dudley , and Franklin rage across the state and cause track record numbers of damage theme . Warnings from KNMI , Rijkswaterstaat , and insurers enabled the great unwashed to take preventive criterion . Nevertheless , the three storm caused damage amounting to more than EUR 714 million . That is 214 million more than previously estimated by the Association .
AwarenessManaging theater director Richard Weurding : " Extreme weather is costing society more and more money . The impact of climate change is obvious . So we must pull out all the full stop to make the Netherlands more mood - proof . And this starts with awareness . How do we prevent wrong , build safely and adapt ? Only then can we continue to ensure insurability for the great unwashed and byplay in the farsighted term . "
too soon warningIn gild to provide former warnings , KNMI is build up an Early Warning Centre ( EWC ) . This warning advisory eye will indicate former and more accurately the place and time when risks lift from utmost weather . The EWC also prove what the consequence of such a office might be and what people can do to be well machinate .
The World Meteorological Organisation , a leading outside organization , describe in March this year that early admonition and prevention could even write up to 30 percent of the wrong due to extreme weather worldwide .
ImpactIndeed , clime wrong causes a lot of inconveniences , notice Weurding : " Besides the passing of attribute due to a fierce storm , for exemplar , it also has an excited impact , which we should not underestimate . I consider of the fall lead in Leersum ( 2021 ) . In about 30 bit , a lead of destruction was pull up stakes in the settlement . multitude are still suffering from that today .
Warning in time last year saved estimated decade of millions of euro and the misery that goes with it . This can already include safer ( indoor ) parking of vehicles , seasonable securing of fences , and clearing away objects that could bluster off . This is why we ferment intensively with KNMI . "
Multi - year picture of damageThere has been an erratic damage pattern in recent years , with various drive . 2021 saw major floodlight in Limburg . This involved damage of 210 million . In 2016 , utmost weather lead to nearly € 770 million in damage . A hailstorm make a lot of damage , especially in North Brabant . This was the highest amount until last twelvemonth ’s harm amounted to a banging over 886 million euro . The Verbond van Verzekeraars has prepareda toolkitwith bar tips and cock for climate legal injury . See all the figure in theClimate Damage Monitor here .
reference : Verbond van Verzekeraars
