Storm Austen Knocks Out Power to Almost 300,000 French Homes October 23, 2026 By Joe Wertz, Eva Brendel and Nayla Razzouk Storm Austen knocked out electricity to almost 300,000 customers in western France on Friday as hurricane-force winds battered the region,...
Floods in France Force Evacuations and Cut Power to Homes January 31, 2025 By Joe Wertz and Nayla Razzouk Flooding caused by Storm Herminia forced the evacuation of thousands of people in northwest France, while hundreds of homes remain...
Storm Triggers Worst Floods in 40 Years in Northwest France January 28, 2025 By Joe Wertz and Nayla Razzouk Storm Herminia triggered the worst flooding in four decades in parts of northwest France and created dangerous avalanche conditions in...
Storm Bert Brings Flooding and Disruption to UK and France November 25, 2024 By Eva Brendel and Nayla Razzouk Storm Bert left a trail of disruption across the UK, with hundreds of flood warnings in place for Wales and...
Former Hurricane Kirk Set to Lash France With Heavy Rain October 8, 2024 By Eamon Akil Farhat and Dylan Griffiths The remnants of Hurricane Kirk are forecast to hit France on Wednesday, after weakening to a post-tropical cyclone. The storm...
Hurricane Kirk’s Remnants Forecast to Hit Europe Later This Week October 7, 2024 By Eva Brendel The remnants of Hurricane Kirk are forecast to hit northwest France on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and gale-force winds. Hurricane...
Hurricane Ian Drives Global Insured Losses of $115B From Natural Disasters: Swiss Re December 1, 2022 By L.S. Howard Hurricane Ian and other natural catastrophes, such as European winter storms, floods in Australia and hailstorms in France and the...
Fierce Storms Batter Northern France, Ripping Off Roofs, Cutting Power October 25, 2022 Tornado-like storms that tore through northern France sheared off part of a church roof, felled trees and power lines and...
PERILS Revises Loss Estimate for Europe’s Windstorm Zeus to €272M ($335.1M) March 6, 2018 The final estimate of insured property market losses for extratropical cyclone Zeus, which mainly hit France last year on March...
Insured Losses for Europe’s Storm Egon Finalized at $329.7M by PERILS January 12, 2018 The final insured loss estimate for windstorm Egon, which primarily affected France and Germany on Jan. 12-13, 2017, is €275...