With 1.3 billion euros in estimated damage, the financial toll of the storms Ciaran And Domingos is among the highest in climatic episodes in France, France Assureurs said on Monday.
These bad weather which hit the north-west of France between the 1er and November 5 “caused a total of 517,000 claims” and “the total cost amounts to 1.3 billion euros”, according to this organization.
The two storms, which left three dead and at least fifty injured in France, mainly swept the west and north of the country, as well as Corsica in the Mediterranean.
From a material point of view, Ciaran And Domingos are already ranked fifth among the most devastating storms in mainland France,” explains France Assureurs.
Ciaran struck several countries on the European Atlantic coast – France, Great Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands, mainly, as well as Italy –, and Domingoswhich followed, but in a less violent manner, mainly affected the west of France.
Lothar And Martinwhich swept across France at the end of December 1999, were by far the most devastating: 92 people were killed and the damage cost insurers 7 billion euros at the time, the equivalent of 13.8 billion euros today taking into account inflation, according to France Assureurs.
Then arrive Darya, Herta And Vivian in 1990 (3.4 billion in current euros), Klaus And Quinten in 2009 (2.6 billion) and Xynthia in 2010 (2.0 billion).
More recently, storm damage Alexwhich devastated the hinterland of Nice and Menton on the Côte d’Azur on October 2, 2020, were estimated to cost at least one billion euros.
As for the hurricane Irma which swept the islands of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélémy, in the French West Indies, in September 2017, the total cost of damage was estimated at 3 billion euros, including 1.9 billion for insured property.
For Ciaran And Domingos“91% of losses concern private homes, 5% concern professional, agricultural and local authority property and finally 4% concern automobiles,” specifies the sector federation.