Mirabeau (French pronunciation: [miʁabo] ⓘ; Occitan: Mirabèu) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

And a pipeline supplying natural gas to Digne crosses the commune and thereby constitutes an additional risk factor.

The commune's management plan for foreseeable natural hazards (PPR in French) was approved in 2008 for the risk of ground movement; there is no DICRIM (Dossier d’information communal sur les risques majeurs; that is, dossier of information for the commune on major risks).

The commune has seen several declarations of natural disaster: for an earthquake in 1984, flooding and mudslides in 1996 and 2001, droughts in 1989, 1990 and 1998, and for landslides in 1996.

Its intensity in Mirabeau was V on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale (MSK), i.e. sleeping people wake up, objects fall.