La France se trouve dans « une situation exceptionnelle » avec « 81 départements en vigilance simultanément dont 2 en rouge et 14 en orange pour 154 rivières », ajouté au fait que le pays est « depuis 30 jours d’affilée sans discontinuer en (vigilance) orange ou en rouge », a-t-elle déclaré samedi. « Donc on a dépassé tous nos records », depuis que Vigicrues a été créé en 2006.

Selon le dernier bulletin de l’organisme public de surveillance des crues, « des débordements importants et majeurs sont en cours ou attendus dans les prochaines 24 heures » pour les cours d’eau en vigilance orange ou rouge, comme la Garonne en aval d’Agen.

À Aiguillon (Lot-et-Garonne), « un quartier est en train d’être submergé par l’eau et on procède à des évacuations », a déclaré samedi matin à l’AFP le colonel Xavier Pergaud, directeur adjoint du Service départemental d’incendie et de secours du Lot-et-Garonne (Sdis 47).

Ces évacuations « préventives », liées à des « fragilités sur les digues des communes de Senestis et d’Aiguillon », concernent 500 personnes, selon la préfecture, un chiffre qui s’ajoute aux 900 évacuées dans 20 communes ces dernières heures, la moitié déjà à Aiguillon.

Pic entre samedi et dimanche

« Le risque (…), c’est la rupture de digue », qui impose des « évacuations rapides », a résumé le colonel Pergaud. « Après chaque inondation, les digues sont mises à mal. Certaines ont été réparées après 2021. Mais ce sont des centaines de kilomètres de digues qui longent la Garonne. »

La préfecture de Gironde a elle aussi mis en garde vendredi contre une brèche présente sur une digue dans la municipalité limitrophe de Jusix (Lot-et-Garonne), qui menace 600 habitants au total, et contre des « submersions de digues » près de La Réole.

Dans cette commune, l’eau arrivait à fleur de digue samedi matin, a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP, avec 9,63 mètres de hauteur d’eau selon Vigicrues.

À Tonneins (Lot-et-Garonne), une crue de 9,58 mètres a été observée, supérieure à celle de 2021 (9,51 m) – mais loin du record de 1930 (10,72 m). À Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne), on atteignait 10,20 mètres, un niveau sensiblement égal à 2021.

« Sols détrempés »

Après le passage cette semaine de la tempête Nils, qui a causé au moins deux morts en France et fait de nombreux dégâts matériels, un nouveau coup de vent est attendu samedi dans le sud.

Le match de Top 14 de rugby entre Perpignan et Pau, programmé samedi à 16h35, a été reporté d’une semaine pour cause de vents violents, a annoncé la préfecture.

Outre les Pyrénées-Orientales, l’Aude et l’Andorre passeront également en vigilance orange aux vents à 16H00, précise Météo France.

L’institut météorologique a relevé ces derniers jours de « forts cumuls » de pluies « sur des sols déjà détrempés ».

Selon Vigicrues, la France a atteint un indice de l’humidité des sols « le plus élevé », « son record absolu », depuis le début de compilation de cette donnée en 1959, une situation qui ralentit le rétablissement des réseaux malmenés par Nils.

Samedi midi, plus de 80% des clients avaient pu être réalimentés en électricité au niveau national mais plus de 171.000 restaient privés de courant, selon le gestionnaire de réseau Enedis.

(FILES) This photograph shows a sign as floodwaters from the swollen Garonne river inundate streets in La Reole, south-western France, on February 12, 2026, during the storm Nils triggering flooding across the area. The flood alert system in France has been working at an unprecedented pace for a month as storms lash parts of the country, the head of the agency told AFP on February 14, 2026. "It has been 30 days since we have been in continuous orange or red alert somewhere on the national territory," Lucie Chadourne-Facon, director of Vigicrues, told AFP, referring to the two highest alert levels. "That is 81 departments in alert simultaneously for 154 rivers, so we have exceeded all our records," she said. (Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP)(FILES) This photograph shows a sign as floodwaters from the swollen Garonne river inundate streets in La Reole, south-western France, on February 12, 2026, during the storm Nils triggering flooding across the area. The flood alert system in France has been working at an unprecedented pace for a month as storms lash parts of the country, the head of the agency told AFP on February 14, 2026. (FILES) This photograph shows a sign as floodwaters from the swollen Garonne river inundate streets in La Reole, south-western France, on February 12, 2026, during the storm Nils triggering flooding across the area. The flood alert system in France has been working at an unprecedented pace for a month as storms lash parts of the country, the head of the agency told AFP on February 14, 2026. « It has been 30 days since we have been in continuous orange or red alert somewhere on the national territory, » Lucie Chadourne-Facon, director of Vigicrues, told AFP, referring to the two highest alert levels. « That is 81 departments in alert simultaneously for 154 rivers, so we have exceeded all our records, » she said. (Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP) ©AFP or licensorsLocal residents assist each other to evacuate the area by boat as the Garonne river overflows and inundates a residential area in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France's government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was "on a ladder in his garden" in Tarn-et-Garonne. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)Local residents assist each other to evacuate the area by boat as the Garonne river overflows and inundates a residential area in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France's government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was Local residents assist each other to evacuate the area by boat as the Garonne river overflows and inundates a residential area in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France’s government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was « on a ladder in his garden » in Tarn-et-Garonne. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) ©AFP or licensorsLocal residents stand before the overflowing Garonne river inundating a road in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France's government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was "on a ladder in his garden" in Tarn-et-Garonne. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)Local residents stand before the overflowing Garonne river inundating a road in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France's government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was Local residents stand before the overflowing Garonne river inundating a road in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France’s government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was « on a ladder in his garden » in Tarn-et-Garonne. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) ©AFP or licensorsTOPSHOT - This aerial photograph shows the overflowing Garonne river inundating a residential area in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France's government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was "on a ladder in his garden" in Tarn-et-Garonne. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)TOPSHOT - This aerial photograph shows the overflowing Garonne river inundating a residential area in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France's government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was TOPSHOT – This aerial photograph shows the overflowing Garonne river inundating a residential area in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France’s government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was « on a ladder in his garden » in Tarn-et-Garonne. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) ©AFP or licensorsLocal residents stand before the overflowing Garonne river inundating a road in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France's government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was "on a ladder in his garden" in Tarn-et-Garonne. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)Local residents stand before the overflowing Garonne river inundating a road in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France's government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was Local residents stand before the overflowing Garonne river inundating a road in Tonneins, south-western France on February 13, 2026, after winds of Storm Nils swept across France. Storm Nils, which swept across France for two days, has claimed a second life according to the government in the south-west, where a red alert remains in place for flooding on the Garonne river. France’s government spokesperson announced on the morning of February 13, 2026, on French TV channel TF1 the death of a man who was « on a ladder in his garden » in Tarn-et-Garonne. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) ©AFP or licensors