A massive fire forced the evacuation of 14,800 people in Le Porge in 1989

Le Porge nearly experienced a human catastrophe during a fire that occurred in July 1989. This forest fire was fanned by a wind blowing at 25 kilometers per hour which managed to jump a 50-meter-wide firebreak. The emergency evacuation made it possible to save the 2,800 vacationers from the La Grigne campsite and the 12,000 people present on the Gressier beach, with no human casualties to report despite 3,800 hectares of pine trees burned.