From The Guardian:
Extreme weather has cost Europe about €500bn over 40 years
European pop. is about 500 million, so that's €25 per person per year i.e. bugger all.
European Environment Agency data shows worst-hit countries to be Germany, France and Italy
No surprises there. France and Germany are two of the largest countries by land area, Italy is also pretty big.
Towards the end of the article:
[The UK's] losses were calculated at about €57bn over the period, equivalent to close to €1,000 per person, with 3,500 deaths.
That would have been a better headline. £25 per person per year and 175 deaths per year. That's only a tenth as many as UK road deaths, and UK road deaths are very low by European standards. The article says that most European 'extreme weather' deaths are from heat stroke, so not unexpectedly the UK has few of those.
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