Abstract The database on natural disasters in agriculture officially declared in Italy is a part of the cloud storage which hosts the materials of the Observatory for agricultural meteorology and climatology of the Research Center for Agriculture and Environment of Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA). The Observatory website has a specific section devoted to weather-related risk in agriculture. From this relational SQL database, a dataset of weather-related disasters has been extracted for the period from 2005 to 2021 and here published. The dataset aims to make available useful data for weather-related risk assessment and analysis in the Italian agricultural sector. Attached content: pdf file "A_Description_Dataset_natural_disasters_agriculture_Italy_2005_2021_v1.1" csv file "Dataset_natural_disasters_agriculture_Italy_2005_2021_v1.1" csv file "DiscoveryMD_Dataset_natural_disasters_agriculture_Italy_v1.1" xlsx file "StructuralMD_Dataset_natural_disasters_agriculture_Italy_v1.1"

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The first years of implementation have been funded by the Ministry of Agriculture in the period 2010–2016, within several research projects on natural disasters and phytosanitary risks in agriculture and related policies. Currently, the work has been carried out within the CREA research projects “Agrometeore” and "AgriDigit-Agromodelli" (tasks 2.1, 2.2 and 3.2; DM n. 36502 of 20/12/2018), funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, food sovereignty and forests. The database is hosted on the cloud storage of the Observatory for Agricultural meteorology and climatology of CREA.

In this version (v1.1) the dataset has been updated, modifying the boolean fields encoding. Moreover, Discovery and Structural metadata have been provided as csv and xlsx files respectively. Consequentely, the file "A_Description_Dataset_natural_disasters_agriculture_Italy_2005_2021" has been updated.