Abstract: Floods are one of the major natural hazards threatening human life and property safety. The study of the impacts of catchment attributes on the occurrence of different flood types helps to grasp the physical mechanism of flood occurrence and provides an important theoretical basis for scientific and effective flood prevention. Most scholars mainly use physical model simulation and statistical methods to study the impacts of catchment attributes on flood occurrence. The statistical method proposed by Stein et al.（2021） has the advantages of requiring less precision in data, simplicity in operation, and the ability to analyze separately for cold, dry and wet regions. The method of Stein et al.（2021） has not been applied in China, so it is necessary to use this method to analyze the impacts of catchment attributes on different flood types in cold, dry and wet regions of China. In this paper, flood classification decision trees are used to classify floods in 201 watersheds in China, and the impacts of catchment characteristics on different flood types in cold, dry and wet regions are analyzed by the empirical cumulative probability comparison method. The main conclusions of this study are as follows: ROS and ER floods occur more frequently in cold regions, in which ROS floods are significantly weakened by basin area and mean elevation. ER floods are mainly exacerbated by snowfall and rainfall, and weakened by soil moisture content. LR floods, which occur most frequently in dry regions, are mainly exacerbated by rainfall and snowfall. For SM and LR floods, which occur more frequently in the wet regions, SM floods are mainly exacerbated by rainfall and clay content and weakened by sand content and average slope, while LR floods are mainly exacerbated by rainfall and clay content and weakened by slope and sand content. Based on the findings of this study, water management authorities can rationally plan engineering and non-engineering measures to intervene in the dominant watershed characteristics where flooding occurs, and target against different types of flooding in the watershed.