National audienceThis article aims to better assess the risk due to flash floods occurring at the end of the spring or during summer in the north of the Parisian Basin. Most of the hydrological studies focused in this area on classical floods as overflowing and water table rising but not on floods rarely occurring in dry valleys. Based on sensitive and relevant parameters observed at two various scales, such approach might address to the stakeholders and to the risk managements a few preventive maps. The mapping firstly defines the flash floods risk at a regional scale comparing urban densities and the spatial distribution of sensitive watersheds to hazard. The latter are identified according to morphological characteristics. This explorato...