Dear Francesca Carisi and co-authors,

Thank you very much again for your submission "Development and assessment of uni- and multi-variable flood loss models for Emilia-Romagna (Italy)". Both referees acknowledged that you have taken up a timely and interesting topic of addressing flood loss estimation. However, both referees and I agree that reading the current manuscript leads to lot of open questions which indicate that the manuscripts needs improvements before we can consider your manuscript for publication. Therefore, a major revision of the manuscript is necessary.
Both reviewers provided a detailed reports highlighting all the points you should address in the revisions. According to your response, I am very positive about the new version of the manuscript and that you will take up their remarks. I see that you have the challenge about the contradicting remarks of the reviewers to shorten the manuscript (indeed it is very long) and to be asked for more details. I suggest to follow reviewer 2 regarding section one and in general, but provide the more details in section 3.
Please also note that this decision does not necessarily imply acceptance of the manuscript in the journal NHESS, and it still will depend on your reply (and subsequent edits to your manuscript) to referees comments, as well as on the reviewer comments of the revised version.

I look forward to receiving the revised version of your manuscript.

Regards, Margreth Keiler
NHESS Editor
Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern

Dear Francesca Carisi and co-authors,

Thank you very much for considering the comments of the referees. The referees and myself highly appreciate the efforts you invests to improve the manuscript. Both referees were interested to provide a second report on your manuscript.
Referee 1 only have two minor comments, however referee 2 recommends to add for some points a more detailed explanation, to discuss several aspects that may influence your results or contribute to uncertainties in the results (major criticisms). One of these aspects was also highlighted by referee 1.
I recommend to address these highlighted aspects in your manuscript and I am very positive that this will contribute to improve the understanding of your approach and the clear message of your manuscript.
I will review this minor revision of your manuscript.

I look forward to receiving the revised version of your manuscript soon.

Regards, Margreth Keiler
NHESS Editor
Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern

Dear Francesca Carisi and co-authors,

Thank you very much for considering the comments of the referees and the new version of your manuscript. In my opinion the manuscript is now ready for publication.

Best regards and thank you again for the great cooperation during the review process.

Margreth Keiler