Abstract: This paper analyzes the characteristics of flash flood disasters since the implementation of the flash flood disaster prevention project in 2010, through sorting out and summarizing the flash flood disaster events that caused death from 2011 to 2019. The death toll was less before the implementation of the project, accounting for a high proportion of the death toll of flood disaster. The elderly, minors and foreigners became vulnerable groups of flash flood disasters. The main disasters are small and medium-sized. Large-scale disaster events cause more deaths, and the disasters usually occurred at night. The death toll of flash flood varied in different provinces, the southwest China is affected by serious disasters, while frequent disasters happened in the same region. This paper reflected the situation of flash flood disasters in China timely and objectively.