Overall Green alert Flood
in France

Event summary

Flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1102931
Death: 1
Displaced: 347
Countries: France
From - To 01 Oct - 26 Oct

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France - Severe weather (ECHO 23 Oct 2024)Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:15

  • Heavy rainfall and strong winds have been affecting southern, south-western and northern France, in particular Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Centre-Val de Loire regions, and the greater Paris area over the last 48 hours, causing floods, rivers overflow and a number of severe weather-related incidents that have resulted in casualties and damage.
  • Media report, as of 18 October, one fatality, due to a strong wind-related incident and two injured persons due to floods in the greater Paris area.
  • Media also report more than 900 evacuated people across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, where the affected departments are Ardèche, Rhône, and Haute-Loire departments. Around ten evacuated people were reported across the Alpes-Maritimes department, Alpes-Maritimes region.
  • In addition, the Interdepartmental Crisis Management Operational Centre (COGIC) reports 2,485 rescued people across the affected regions.
  • Over the next 24 hours, more heavy rainfall with locally very heavy rainfall is still forecast over most of France, except over the north-western departments.
Flood in France - EC/ECHO daily mapFri, 18 Oct 2024 16:35

A new EC/ECHO daily map is now available
Var Department, France, Late October 2024Heavy rain triggered flooding in the Var Department of France in late October 2024.Fri 25 Oct 2024Provided by Copernicus EMS GloFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (37), (2), NASA (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),