The 20 most climate-resilient places in France
Ranked on the climate pillar alone: comfort through the year, together with wildfire and seismic exposure. The worst active hazard carries the family — an absent hazard cannot average a certain one away.
- Drawn
- Jul 31, 2026
- Ranked from
- 5,137 municipalities
- Excluded, provisional
- 282
- Scoring model
- 2026.12-momentum-v1
| # | Municipality | Province | Population | Climate & risk score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agon-Coutainville | Manche | 2,869 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Ajaccio | Corse-du-Sud | 72,647 | 100/100 | A |
| 1 | Alata | Corse-du-Sud | 3,562 | 100/100 | A |
| 1 | Anse-Bertrand | Guadeloupe | 3,871 | 100/100 | C |
| 1 | Audierne | Finistère | 3,690 | 100/100 | A |
| 1 | Baie-Mahault | Guadeloupe | 30,316 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Baillif | Guadeloupe | 5,122 | 100/100 | C |
| 1 | Bandol | Var | 8,359 | 100/100 | A |
| 1 | Barneville-Carteret | Manche | 2,214 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Basse-Pointe | Martinique | 2,727 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Basse-Terre | Guadeloupe | 9,892 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Belz | Morbihan | 3,784 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Bénodet | Finistère | 3,702 | 100/100 | A |
| 1 | Bohars | Finistère | 3,559 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Bouillante | Guadeloupe | 6,760 | 100/100 | C |
| 1 | Bourg-Blanc | Finistère | 3,545 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Bras-Panon | La Réunion | 13,416 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Bréhal | Manche | 3,463 | 100/100 | B |
| 1 | Brest | Finistère | 139,456 | 100/100 | A |
| 1 | Bricquebec-en-Cotentin | Manche | 5,847 | 100/100 | B |
What this table leaves out, and why
- 282 municipalities were dropped for a provisional grade. Where one of the five pillars has no data for a town, the site fills it with a neutral value and marks the grade provisional. That is fair on the town's own page, where the marker is visible. In a ranking it is not: a town competing on two measured pillars and three neutral ones would place on the strength of what we do not know about it.
- 29,469 were below the population floor of 2,000 inhabitants. Percentile scores are unstable where a single amenity or a single housing development moves the whole figure, and those places sort to the top of an ungated list.
- Tied towns share a rank. Scores are published as whole numbers and they saturate at the top of a table, so several towns here hold the same score and therefore the same position. Where a tie has to be broken to fit twenty rows, it is broken alphabetically — which is arbitrary, and is why the rank is shared rather than invented.
- The ranking is within France, not across Europe. Each pillar is a percentile against that country's own distribution, so a Spanish 80 and an Italian 80 are two statements about two different populations. Pooling them would rank countries, not towns.
- This is a municipality, not a house. Everything here describes the place — its climate, its hazards, its services, its market. It says nothing about any individual property in it.
Computed under scoring model 2026.12-momentum-v1. A ranking published under a different model version is not directly comparable with this one — the weights or the inputs changed, so a town moving between two editions may be the model moving rather than the town.
Using it
Free to reproduce, in whole or in part, with attribution to Terragrado and a link to this page or to the methodology. The CSV carries the same rows plus the edition, the model version and a link to each town's page, so a reader can check any line of it.
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