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Vigiecrues

Vigicrues is France’s national public service for real-time flood monitoring and early warning. Managed by the Ministry for Ecological Transition, it provides 24-hour flood forecasts, vigilance levels (green to red), and regular bulletins for major rivers. The platform (and mobile app) allows users to consult maps, receive alerts, and subscribe to location-specific warnings. It is designed for authorities, emergency services, and the general public to anticipate and respond to flood risks. Overall, Vigicrues functions as an operational early warning and risk communication tool, rather than a long-term adaptation planning instrument.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Consult maps and vigilance levels (green to red) for major French rivers
  • Subscribe to location-specific flood alerts via the platform or mobile app
  • Use observational and impact/sectoral flood-modelling data

Output

  • Reports and decision-support material, including 24-hour flood forecasts and regular bulletins

Use it to

  • Anticipate and respond to flood risk on major rivers in near real time
  • Receive location-specific flood alerts
  • Support flood-related risk assessment for authorities, emergency services and the public

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

A genuinely operational early-warning and risk-communication service, updated daily, reaching authorities, emergency services and citizens directly through alerts rather than requiring users to interpret raw data. It is explicitly not designed for long-term adaptation planning and offers no nature-based-solution, cost-benefit or just-resilience functionality.

Used in

  • National flood forecasting, early warning and risk communication for major rivers in France
  • Buildings, coastal areas, disaster risk reduction, forestry and urban sectors, at national and subnational level

Metadata

User Group
Commission services and/or AgenciesNational authoritiesSubnational authorities
Geographic coverage
Countries:
France
Spatial resolution

Local

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Adaptation sectors
BuildingsDisaster Risk ReductionForestry
Climate hazards
Heavy precipitation / extreme rainfallFlooding
Type of outputs
Reports and decision support
Temporality of data
Present
Language
French
Accessibility and usability
Low
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersProject-generated or processed datasetsMixed sources
Tool validation use
Expert validation / reputable institution

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