Fatalities associated with the severe weather  conditions in the Czech Republic, 2000–2019

Brázdil, Rudolf; Chromá, Kateřina; Dolák, Lukáš; Řehoř, Jan; Řezníčková, Ladislava; Zahradníček, Pavel; Dobrovolný, Petr

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1355-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1355-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1355-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 5

Research article

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04 May 2021

Research article |

| 04 May 2021

Fatalities associated with the severe weather conditions in the Czech Republic, 2000–2019

Rudolf Brázdil, Kateřina Chromá, Lukáš Dolák, Jan Řehoř, Ladislava Řezníčková, Pavel Zahradníček, and Petr Dobrovolný

Data sets

Deceased according to causes of death, sex and age in the CR, regions and districts in 2000–2009 CSO – Czech Statistical Office https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/zemreli-podle-seznamu-pricin-smrti-pohlavi-a-veku-v-cr-krajich-a-okresech-2000-2009

Deceased according to causes of death, sex and age in the CR, regions and districts in 2010–2019 CSO – Czech Statistical Office https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/zemreli-podle-seznamu-pricin-smrti-pohlavi-a-veku-v-cr-krajich-a-okresech-2010-2019

Statistika nehodovosti (Statistics of accidents) PCR – Police of the Czech Republic https://www.policie.cz/clanek/statistika-nehodovosti-900835.aspx

Short summary

We present an analysis of fatalities attributable to weather conditions in the Czech Republic during the 2000–2019 period based on our own database created from newspaper reports, on the database of the Czech Statistical Office, and on the database of the police of the Czech Republic as well as on their comparison. Despite some uncertainties, generally declining trends in the number of fatalities appear for the majority of weather variables. The structure of fatalities is described in detail.