Historical disasters

Floods, which are overflowing of water recovering a place, are a major natural’s risk in Réunion IslandIn Reunion Island ,important floods risks exist . And those floods constitute the major natural’s , the more frequent and the more destroyer risks of the Island . Due to this water’s surplus , we can observe differents types of phenomenons :

- first , floods caused by overflowing , ,gullies :

-then , floods by rise of phréatic table:

- sea's floods due to hurricanes and cyclones:

Reunion Island , is concerned by rains of an exceptional intensity . Those importants rains are the most of time due to the tropicals cyclone’s passages.

Historical floods :

First from 1800 to 2000 in 2 centery we count 104 floods in Reunion islands,

In 1829 , due to a cyclone , all the harvest are engulfed by waves:

In 1878 , due to an other cyclone , and by the floods , a lot of families are taken by torrents , the were more than 50 millions.

In 1880 hyacinthe cyclone due to this 3 passages on the Island , he caused extreme rains which provoked important floods

In 2007 , gamede caused ,important flood which destroyed bridge of the st etienne river ,and (provoked 100 millions of disaster , and they were also two victims of waters:

In 2013 felleng hurricane provoked important flood which destoyed roads: