Saint Lucia

Historical disasters in Saint Lucia

Compiled by: C.J. van Westen

Last updated: 09-02-2016

The preliminary results of the data collection on disaster events are presented in this section and all data are aggregated into a single table below. The data covers a long period starting in the 18th century. For many of the historical events it was possible to reconstruct the date of occurrence. The table also indicates for the various events whether there were indications of landslide occurrence, and if so whether the location of the landslides are known. Unfortunately this is not the case for most of the events. We believe that this catalogue is the most comprehensive that was made for the country until now, and hope it will be updated whenever new events occur.

Year	Day	Events	Notes	Information available
1872	09-20/09/1872	Hurricane	NI
1875	08-18/09/1875	Hurricane	NI
1876	01/11/1876	Hurricane	NI
1879	09-16/10/1879	Tropical Storm	NI
1880	15-20-08/1880	Hurricane	NI
1886	15-27/08/1886	Hurricane	NI
1887	08/08/1887	Tropical Storm	NI
1887	11-22/09/1887	Hurricane	NI
1888	01-08/11/1888	Tropical Storm	NI
1891	18-25/08/1891	Hurricane	NI
1894	11-20/10/1894	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1895	22-30/08/1895	Hurricane	NI
1896	11/09/1896	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1898	05-20/09/1898	Hurricane	NI
1901	04-13/07/1901	Hurricane	NI
1903	06-16/08/1903	Hurricane	NI
1916	10-22/07/1916	Hurricane	NI
1916	12-20/08/1916	Hurricane	NI
1916	06-15/10/1916	Tropical Storm	NI
1917	20-30/09/1917	Hurricane	NI
1918	09-14/09/1918	Tropical Storm	NI
1921	10-9-1921	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1924	16-18/08/1924	Hurricane	NI
1928	19-9-1928	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1931	10-21/08/1931	Tropical Storm	NI
1938	21-11-1938	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1938	22-11-1938	Tropical Storm	Landslides Ravine Crebiche and Flooding
1939	7-1-1939	Tropical Storm	Landslides Ravine Poisson and Flooding
1940	7-8-1940	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1941	23-30/09/1941	Hurricane	NI
1942	21-31/08/1942	Hurricane	NI
1942	15-22/09/1942	Tropical Storm	NI
1943	11-18/10/1943	Hurricane	NI
1948	1-9-1948	Tropical Storm	NI
1949	3-9-1949	Tropical Storm	NI
1951	5-9-1951	Hurricane Dog	NI
1954	12-12-1954	Tropical Storm	Landslides Ravine Poisson and Flooding
1958	4-7-1958	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1958	6-9-1958	Hurricane Ella	NI
1960	10-7-1960	Hurricane Abbey	NI
1963	24-9-1963	Hurricane Edith	NI
1965	27-9-1965	Hurricane Betsy	NI
1965	25-10-1965	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1966	jun-66	Tropical Storm	Landslides and Flooding
1966	27-30/09/1966	Tropical Storm Judith	NI
1967	8-9-1967	Hurricane Beulah	NI
1967	26-9-1967	Tropical Storm Edith	NI
1969	25-27/07/1969	Tropical Depression	NI
1970	17-23/08/1970	Tropical Storm Dorothy	NI
1970	2-10-1970	Tropical Depression	Landslides and Flooding
1971	18-25/08/1971	Tropical Storm Chole	NI
1976	03-12/10/1976	Tropical Depression	NI
1979	19-24/06/1979	Tropical Storm Ana	NI
1980	3-8-1980	Hurricane Allen	Widespread landslides particular Barre de l'isle
1981	nov-81	Storm	Landslides
1983	23-7-1983	Storm	NI
1984	24-26/07/1984	Tropical Depression	NI
1988	11-9-1988	Tropical Storm Gilbert	Landslide	1985 map De GRaff
1990	6-11-1990	NI	Landslides More du Don
1992	29-11-1992	NI	Landslides
1993	14-17/08/1993	Tropical Storm Cindy	NI
1994	09-10/10/1994	Tropical Storm Debby	More than 400 Landslides shallow debris flow in the upper areas, debris and rock slides along roads	Mapped by Cassandra Rogers
1995	7-9-1995	Hurricane Iris	Landslides Millet Primary school,
1998	sep-98	Earthquake and incessant rain	Landslides Boguis
1999	7-10-1999	Seismic Event	soil creep and slow gravitational movement and Flooding
2001	14-22/08/2001	Tropical Storm Chantal	NI
2001	04-09/10/2001	Tropical Storm Jerry and Hurricane Iris	NI
2003	07-17/07/2003	Hurricane Claudette	NI
2004	03-14/08/2004	Tropical Storm Bonnie	NI
2004	26-9-2004	Seismic Event	Landslides Tapion
2005	1-7-2005	Heavy rainfall prior to the failure	Landslide Windjammer Landing Beach Resort
2007	13-23/08/2007	Hurricane Dean	NI
2010	30-31/10/2010	Hurricane Tomas	Many landsides Colombette, Fond St Jacques, along the Barre De L'ile, Millet and on the hills east and south of Castries
2013	24-12-2013	Christmas Eve trough	Several landslides along the roads

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