word | | Natural hazards |
| flash | Dominica | flash floods are a constant threat; destructive hurricanes can be expected during the late summer months |
| flash | Egypt | periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes; flash floods; landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms; sandstorms |
| flash | Equatorial Guinea | violent windstorms; flash floods |
| flash | Guyana | flash floods are a constant threat during rainy seasons |
| flash | India | droughts; flash floods, as well as widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes |
| flash | Switzerland | avalanches, landslides; flash floods |
| floes | European Union | flooding along coasts; avalanches in mountainous area; earthquakes in the south; volcanic eruptions in Italy; periodic droughts in Spain; ice floes in the Baltic |
| floes | Svalbard | ice floes often block the entrance to Bellsund (a transit point for coal export) on the west coast and occasionally make parts of the northeastern coast inaccessible to maritime traffic |
| floes | Sweden | ice floes in the surrounding waters, especially in the Gulf of Bothnia, can interfere with maritime traffic |
| flood | Bahamas, The | hurricanes and other tropical storms cause extensive flood and wind damage |
| flooded | Senegal | lowlands seasonally flooded; periodic droughts |
| flooding | Afghanistan | damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; flooding; droughts |
| flooding | Angola | locally heavy rainfall causes periodic flooding on the plateau |
| flooding | Argentina | San Miguel de Tucuman and Mendoza areas in the Andes subject to earthquakes; pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike the pampas and northeast; heavy flooding |
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