Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0A flood study covers Baie-du-Febvre: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Gouvernement du Québec
Wildfire is rare near Baie-du-Febvre: 0% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.001% a year. Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.13 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). In Health Canada’s survey, just 0% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Baie-du-Febvre grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Baie-du-Febvre’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Baie-du-Febvre: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Baie-du-Febvre faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Baie-du-Febvre grades B+ for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Baie-du-Febvre’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Only 58 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Baie-du-Febvre: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0.3% within 5 km
Past fire around Baie-du-Febvre’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Baie-du-Febvre burns at 0.001% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
The forest starts beyond town: 2% of the land within 5 km of Baie-du-Febvre’s homes is forest fuel, against 6.9% within 25 km.
Shares of land within 5 and 25 km of populated blocks: burned at least once in 1986–2025 (CWFIS burned-area composite), forest fuel and grass (fire behaviour fuel types, 2026, 250 m grid).
Burn rate a year, towns in Quebec · highest of 514
In the upper half in Quebec but far from Mistissini (0.31%): Baie-du-Febvre ranks 136th of 514, at 0.001% a year.
Each bar: the yearly average share of land within 25 km of a town’s homes that burned, 1986–2025 (CWFIS); the seven highest towns of 2,500 people or more.
Some fire is mapped around Baie-du-Febvre, but not enough to leave the low band, where 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are; 7.5% rank higher.
Bands of the yearly burn rate: low under 0.05%, moderate under 0.25%, high under 1%, very high 1% or more; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Canadian Wildland Fire Information System: National Burned Area Composite 1986–2025 and fire behaviour fuel types (2026), Natural Resources Canada. Measured within 25 km and 5 km of each populated dissemination area; past fire, not a forecast.
Baie-du-Febvre is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Gouvernement du Québec
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Baie-du-Febvre: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching Baie-du-Febvre is Gouvernement du Québec’s, dated 1996; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varennes-Grondines | Gouvernement du Québec | 1996 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Quebec, 45% of towns against 58% nationally, but Baie-du-Febvre has one.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Baie-du-Febvre’s homes stand in a flood zone.
The inventory’s own caution (NRCan): “The Canada Flood Map (CFM) does not include every flood hazard map in Canada and may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies. It should not be relied upon as the official source of flood mapping information. Furthermore, if a map appears to be missing, this does not necessarily mean that the area has never been mapped. For the official version of a map, updated information, or confirmation of applicable regulations, please contact the local authority responsible for flood mapping.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Baie-du-Febvre $0.13 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Baie-du-Febvre’s $0.13 is about 4.3 times the typical town’s $0.030: it sits in one of Canada’s more active seismic zones.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Baie-du-Febvre at $0.13 beside a median in Quebec of $0.14, with La Pocatière on top at $0.48.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
In the upper part of Canada’s range: 22% of its 2,611 towns expect more damage than Baie-du-Febvre.
Each column: the share of Canada’s towns of 2,500 people or more in that range of yearly loss per $1,000 (NRCan, 2022).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Baie-du-Febvre’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
0% of homes tested around Baie-du-Febvre are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Radon runs below the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Baie-du-Febvre’s area, at 0%. Nobody publishes radon tests for Baie-du-Febvre alone, so this card uses the figure for the Mauricie et Centre-du-Quebec health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around Baie-du-Febvre (0%) than in the typical town in Quebec (8.2%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Few tests over the guideline: Baie-du-Febvre shares the bottom band with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, below the other 63%.
Each bar: the share of Canada’s towns of 2,500 people or more whose survey area had that share of tests over 200 Bq/m³.
The share describes the area, not a house: in Baie-du-Febvre as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Baie-du-Febvre
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Baie-du-Febvre; Alert Ready carries the urgent ones to phones, radio and TV.
| Alert | What it means |
|---|---|
| Warning | Severe weather is happening or about to: act now. |
| Watch | Conditions favour severe weather: be ready. |
| Advisory | Weather that is less severe but could disrupt the day. |
| Special weather statement | Unusual weather worth knowing about. |
| Special air quality statement | Poor air, often wildfire smoke. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Baie-du-Febvre, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Baie-du-Febvre
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baie-du-Febvre | Low | $0.13 | 0% | Yes |
| Pierreville 2,154 · 8.4 km | Low | $0.14 | 0% | Yes |
| Saint-François-du-Lac 1,927 · 9.9 km | Low | $0.12 | 0% | Yes |
| Nicolet 8,737 · 16 km | Low | $0.12 | 0% | Yes |
The fire record around Nicolet is a touch heavier than Baie-du-Febvre’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Baie-du-Febvre faces
Practical steps for Baie-du-Febvre’s hazards, most pressing first.
- Test for three months in winter.
- Over 200 Bq/m³: fix it.
- Kits are cheap; pros test too.
- Never drive through floodwater.
- Move papers and medicines upstairs.
- Ask whether your street is mapped.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap the water heater down.
- Keep 72 hours of supplies.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
- Is earthquake cover included?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Baie-du-Febvre’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Baie-du-Febvre takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Baie-du-Febvre’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Baie-du-Febvre.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Baie-du-Febvre
Is Baie-du-Febvre at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Baie-du-Febvre’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2015), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Baie-du-Febvre?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Baie-du-Febvre $0.13 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is radon a problem in Baie-du-Febvre?
0% of the 58 homes Health Canada tested around Baie-du-Febvre topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Baie-du-Febvre’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Baie-du-Febvre grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Baie-du-Febvre flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Baie-du-Febvre; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
Seismic risk: Natural Resources Canada. Radon: Health Canada. Wildfire: Canadian Wildland Fire Information System. Flood studies: Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Sources: NRCan, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model 2022 · Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes · CWFIS, National Burned Area Composite and FBP fuel types · NRCan, Canada Flood Map Inventory. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).