Analysis of Rainfall Events Driving MDHEs Occurred in the Solofrana River Basin, Southern Italy

The current paper aims to investigate the risk of occurrence of damaging events, as a function of rainfall triggering event types, for the Solofrana peri-urban basin, where MDHEs has occurred rather frequently, especially during the last decade. A number of about 25 MDHE, within the period 1951-2014, have been selected and analyzed for the purpose. Cumulate rainfall, duration extent, maximum intensity, return periods, temporal occurrences and spatial patterns have been analyzed for purposes of classification. Rainfall occurrences appeared effectively severe in only few cases and perhaps the large number of damaging event, and the relative increase in the last decade, is most likely caused by incorrect planning policies