Moderate avalanches warning — Hautes Alpes was recorded by Global Incident Tracker on Saturday, 31 October 2026 at 23:00 UTC. The event is classified as a avalanche incident with a severity rating of Moderate, and was detected through METEOALARM.
Official severe-weather warning issued by the national meteorological service of France for Hautes Alpes. Warning level: Moderate. Valid from 2026-10-31T23:00 to 2026-11-01T23:00. Distributed through Meteoalarm, the European weather warning network.
Where this happened
The incident is located in France (Europe), whose capital is Paris. Historically, France is most affected by floods, wildfires, heatwaves and storms. You can follow every incident recorded in this country, updated live, on the France incident tracker.
Approximate coordinates of the reported event are 46.200°, 2.200°. The marker on the map above shows this position; for news-derived reports the location reflects the place named in media coverage and may represent a district or city rather than an exact site.
Understanding avalanche events
Rapid snow-mass movement down a slope, often triggering burials and road closures. Most fatal avalanches are triggered by the victims themselves or their group. Survival probability falls sharply after the first fifteen minutes of burial, which is why companion rescue matters more than external response.
How severity is rated
Global Incident Tracker rates every event on a four-step scale — Minor, Moderate, Severe and Extreme — derived from the source signal: earthquake magnitude, official GDACS alert colour, or the volume of independent media reporting for news-derived incidents. This event is currently rated Moderate. Ratings can change as more information becomes available, and a rating is a monitoring signal rather than an official government assessment.
Safety guidance for avalanche situations
- Keep a safe distance from the affected area and let emergency services work unobstructed.
- Rely on official local channels for instructions and avoid amplifying unverified reports.
- Prepare a basic emergency kit: water, medication, torch, power bank, documents and cash.
- Follow only official instructions from local authorities and emergency services — this page is a monitoring record, not an emergency alert.
Data and verification
This record was generated automatically from METEOALARM and de-duplicated against our archive. Early reports for any incident can be revised: locations get refined, magnitudes are recalculated and impact figures change as assessments arrive. We deliberately do not publish casualty numbers unless an official source states them. The original source report is linked at the top of this page.
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Timeline and sources
Official warning
Issued by Meteoalarm (EUMETNET). A warning or forecast describes a hazard; on its own it is not a report that harm occurred.
How statuses are decided · the number of reports is never treated as confirmation.
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· received · event time 31 Oct 2026, 23:00 UTCFirst report Official warning
First recorded from Meteoalarm (EUMETNET).
Times are when this site received each report, in UTC; the event time is shown where the source gave one. Copies of one syndicated story count as one report.
Conditions at the time
No rainfall was recorded that day, and the temperature peaked at 11°C. Conditions are shown for context only — they do not establish a cause.
Weather reanalysis for this location and date via Open-Meteo.