On 18th and 19th June 2013, a 100-year flood hit the central Pyrenees, located at the French-Spanish frontier, in southern France, from the Garonne valley to the gave de Pau valley. Although the number of victims (3 deaths) is limited given the scale of the event, the damage is considerable. Five years after the event, the two valleys most affected by the flood have very different faces and the Barèges valley, although more affected, has recovered better than the Garonne valley. We question these disparities in post-disaster recovery. We show that this differentiation is not directly linked to the methods of crisis management: from one valley to another, more or less the same difficulties were encountered and the same responses were provided. This leads us to show that the difference in resilience is mainly due, here, to territorial vulnerabilities and dynamics pre-existing the flood.