Floods, Vosges and 5 other départements, July 2024
60 communes under a natural disaster declaration (flood)
178 protected animal species recorded in the declared communes in the ten years before the flood
23 animal species threatened on the national Red List, protected or not
birds: by their population in the flood's season
- Dates per the orders
- 31 July to 1 August 2024
- Départements
- Vosges, Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Côte-d'Or, Saône-et-Loire and Haute-Marne
- Flood type
- river flooding, runoff or mudflow, rising groundwater
- Heaviest rainfall
- 99.3 mm
- in one day (Vosges, 1 August 2024), DOMMARTIN-AUX-BOIS station · per Météo-France
- 27 July 2024: 11.5 mm
- 28 July 2024: 0 mm
- 29 July 2024: 0 mm
- 30 July 2024: 0 mm
- 31 July 2024: 0 mm
- 1 August 2024: 99.3 mm
- 2 August 2024: 1.2 mm
- 3 August 2024: 0 mm
- 4 August 2024: 0 mm
99.3 mm from 30 Jul to 1 Aug, up to the wettest day
The flood's dates
- Peak discharge
- 268 m³/s
- La Moselle à Corny-sur-Moselle - limnimètre, on 3 August 2024 · provisional Hub'Eau value, it can be revised
- Extent
- communes under a natural disaster declaration (flood)
Protected species recorded in the declared communes
Observations recorded in the ten years before the flood, some known only to within a few kilometres, up to 10 km, when their published position is blurred or given by grid square. They tell which species were reported there, not what became of each animal.
1,599 species recorded in the declared communes
178 protected animal species among them and 14 protected plants
23 animal species threatened on the national Red List, protected or not (vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered)
136 Birds
18 Mammals, bats included
12 Amphibians
6 Reptiles
5 Fish, molluscs and crayfish
1 Insects
For birds, the category is the one of their population at the flood's season (breeding, wintering or passage birds): a bird with no dated record in the declared communes in that season in the GBIF data has none, and the breeding category needs at least two dated records in June or July. In the migration season (March, August to October), a bird that neither the passage list nor the wintering list assesses takes its breeding category only if it was recorded at least twice in the declared communes in June or July. The list used is named under each species.
The most notable protected animal species
Species with at least three observations (for a bird, three in the months that give it its category, and no bird without a record at the flood's season), the most threatened first, then the most recorded. An observation is a published record: it can count one or several animals, and the same animal can be noted several times. When their published position is imprecise, blurred or given by grid square, they are said to be "in the communes or nearby".
Birds
The observations cover every season: a migrant bird recorded there may have been away on the day of the flood.
Endangered, breeding birdsEurasian Tree Sparrow
Endangered, breeding birdsBlack Stork
Vulnerable, breeding birdsEuropean Greenfinch
Vulnerable, breeding birdsEurasian Goldfinch
Vulnerable, breeding birdsEuropean Serin
Vulnerable, breeding birdsCommon Linnet
Vulnerable, breeding birdsRed Kite
Vulnerable, breeding birdsYellowhammer
Vulnerable, breeding birdsEurasian Bullfinch
Vulnerable, breeding birdsCommon Kingfisher
Vulnerable, breeding birdsMeadow Pipit
Amphibians
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, public domain). Credit for each photo
In the water's path
Establishments registered today in the communes declared for this flood, taken whole, at their declared address or at the point Géorisques gives. They were not necessarily there on the day of the flood, and the dataset does not say whether they were flooded. An ICPE-classified farm can also be in the SIRENE register: these counts do not add up.
No ICPE-classified livestock farm located in the declared communes
Géorisques · ICPE229 livestock businesses in the SIRENE register based in the declared communes
SIRENE register · Insee15 veterinary practices based in the declared communes
SIRENE register · Insee5 animal protection associations based in the declared communes
National register of associationsNo wildlife association based in the declared communes
National register of associations
Of the 229 livestock businesses in the SIRENE register: 132 cattle, sheep, goat or pig farms, 17 horse farms, 7 poultry farms and 73 farms of other animals.
A wildlife association is an association whose declared purpose in the national register of associations is the preservation of wildlife: the register does not say whether it runs an authorised care centre. Associations are counted at their declared address: an association or a care centre based outside the declared communes can work in them.
Protected areas in the declared communes
The sites the communes declared for this flood extend over, taken whole, dry sectors included. Natura 2000 and regulatory protection first, then the ZNIEFF, each by its area in these communes. These are not flooded areas: they are not given.
- Massifs forestiers et vallées du châtillonnaisNatura 2000, Birds Directive
- Bassigny, partie LorraineNatura 2000, Birds Directive
- BassignyNatura 2000, Birds Directive
- Vallées du Rognon et de la Sueurre et massif forestier de la Crête et d'Ecot la CombeNatura 2000, Habitats Directive
- Forêt et étang de Parroy, vallée de la Vezouze et fort de ManonvillerNatura 2000, Habitats Directive
- ForêtsNational park core
- Vallée de la Moselle (secteur Chatel-Tonnoy)Natura 2000, Habitats Directive
- BrionnaisZNIEFF type II (inventoried natural area)
- Voge et bassignyZNIEFF type II (inventoried natural area)
- Vergers de MirecourtZNIEFF type II (inventoried natural area)
- Gîtes à Chiropteres de GirancourtZNIEFF type I (inventoried natural area)
- Pays d'ArnayZNIEFF type II (inventoried natural area)
A marsh can be designated twice under Natura 2000, for its birds and for its habitats: the areas overlap and do not add up. A ZNIEFF is a wildlife inventory, with no regulatory protection.
The declared communes
60 communes declared a natural disaster (flood) for this flood, région by région, then département by département.
Grand EstVosges, Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Haute-Marne
VosgesSee the 26 communes
Ambacourt, Bainville-aux-Saules, Begnécourt, Chaumousey, Damas-et-Bettegney, Dommartin-aux-Bois, Dompaire, Gelvécourt-et-Adompt, Girancourt, Gorhey, Hagécourt, Harol, Hennecourt, La Vacheresse-et-la-Rouillie, Légéville-et-Bonfays, Les Ableuvenettes, Madonne-et-Lamerey, Maroncourt, Mattaincourt, Mirecourt, Pierrefitte, Pont-sur-Madon, Sanchey, Valfroicourt, Velotte-et-Tatignécourt, Ville-sur-Illon
MoselleSee the 11 communes
Buchy, Carling, Corny-sur-Moselle, Creutzwald, Goin, Liéhon, Pommérieux, Sillegny, Silly-en-Saulnois, Solgne, Verny
Meurthe-et-MoselleSee the 9 communes
Bayon, Bénaménil, Brémoncourt, Clayeures, Einvaux, Fréménil, Gerbéviller, Lorey, Méhoncourt
Haute-MarneSee the 2 communes
Rimaucourt, Rochefort-sur-la-Côte
Bourgogne-Franche-ComtéCôte-d'Or, Saône-et-Loire
Côte-d'OrSee the 6 communes
Ampilly-les-Bordes, Bellenod-sur-Seine, Busseaut, Magny-Lambert, Meilly-sur-Rouvres, Saint-Marc-sur-Seine
Saône-et-LoireSee the 6 communes
Amanzé, Baudemont, La Chapelle-sous-Dun, Saint-Laurent-en-Brionnais, Saint-Symphorien-des-Bois, Vareilles
Download this flood's data
In every file of the dataset, this flood carries the identifier EV-20240801-20240801-57. Its dates were frozen when the identifier was created and differ here from the flood's.
Recognised and listed

A project labelled by the French StateNational Resilience Day 2026 (Journée nationale de la résilience)
Registered with GBIFDerived dataset, DOI 10.15468/dd.ta4vkx
