The flood also is the highest recorded for the Mississippi River at St. Louis. A coalition of mayors who preside along one of the longest rivers in North America say the damage total is likely to be more than $2 billion. The 2019 flood event taking place along the Mississippi River is far from over, but – in many locations above St. Louis – the worst may finally be over. Among the hardest hit were the Wyandot who lost 100 people in the diseases that occurred after the flood.
This flood was particularly devastating since the region had few if any levees at the time. Mississippi River floodwater climbs up the stairs to the Arch in St. Louis on Saturday June 1, 2019.

Mississippi River flooding has been ongoing for three months or longer in some locations, making it the longest-lasting flood there since the Great Flood of 1927, the worst flood in … This year’s flood has broken records set in 1973 and even 1927 – two years with river floods whose impacts are still felt and that shaped how the Mississippi River is managed today. 2019 has been an unprecedented and historic year on the Mississippi River. The largest flood ever recorded on the Missouri River and Upper Mississippi River in terms of discharge.