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 1103226
Death: 0
Displaced: 136
Countries: France
From - To 16 Apr - 20 Apr

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Storm Hans, France, Mid-April 2025Strong winds, heavy rain and snow in higher elevations brought by Storm Hans impacted areas of France in mid-April 2025.Fri 18 Apr 2025Provided 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.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Dordogne residents face aftermath of flood damage as more rain forecas.. 4/23/2025 12:09:00 PM.

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Record river levels, more evacuations: Latest on flooding in south-wes.. 4/22/2025 9:09:00 AM.

Widespread disruption continues in the south-west of France with at least 25 more people evacuated overnight (Monday to Tuesday) and dozens of roads remaining blocked due to record flooding in five departments. The flood alerts, which start
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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