Italy's Red Alert Flooding Isolates Tuscan Villages

Italy's Department of Civil Protection, the Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, declared a red alert for northwest Tuscany on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, as heavy rain pushed rivers over their banks and triggered landslides across the region. Italy's criticality scale runs green, yellow, orange and red, with red the most severe level, according to Tuscany's regional monitoring center, CFR Toscana.

CFR Toscana said the alert covers the Lunigiana, Reno and Serchio-Garfagnana-Lima river basin zones. It runs until 11:59 p.m. local time Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, before easing to the orange level from midnight. Parallel red rain warnings were also in force for Liguria and Friuli Venezia Giulia.

ANSA, the Italian wire service, reported that about 100 people from the hamlets of Casette and Forno remained evacuated, cut off by a landslide that blocked the road into the hills. ANSA counted flooding or landslide damage in at least three other towns in the region. No deaths or injuries had been reported as of Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026.