Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Hazards in Beauceville: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 13% of tested homes
Since 1986 almost nothing has burned near Beauceville: 0% of the land within 25 km, or 0.000% a year. Earthquake risk in Beauceville is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.048 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Hazard risk gives Beauceville a grade of C−, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Beauceville’s hazards
For Beauceville, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Beauceville faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Beauceville grades C− for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Beauceville’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #333 of 507 in Quebec and #2,297 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Beauceville: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Beauceville’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
A burn rate of 0.000% a year keeps Beauceville in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
Beauceville’s homes have had no fire within 5 km since 1986; the closest was 9.2 km away.
Forest fuel is denser close to Beauceville (65% within 5 km) than further out (55% 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 513
To three decimals the burn rate around Beauceville is zero, as for 144 of the 513 towns in Quebec, while Mistissini reaches 0.31%.
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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, Beauceville is in the largest group, low (92%), and at its floor, while 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Beauceville
Flood studies whose area touches Beauceville, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Beauceville, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 45% of towns in Quebec have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Beauceville is not among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Beauceville floods.
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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Beauceville $0.048 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
With $0.048 of shaking damage a year per $1,000, Beauceville is about even with the typical $0.030 (1.6 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Beauceville’s $0.048 sits under the median in Quebec, $0.14, and well under La Pocatière’s $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.
Beauceville sits above most of Canada’s 2,611 towns on earthquake risk; 31% are higher.
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).
For Beauceville the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Test for radon in Beauceville: 13% of area homes were over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Beauceville’s survey area reads 13% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Beauceville doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Chaudiere-Appalaches health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Beauceville (13%) than in the typical town in Quebec (8.2%); 0.6% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Beauceville sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% above.
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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Beauceville’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Beauceville
Alerts for Beauceville come from Environment and Climate Change Canada and, for emergencies, Alert Ready.
| 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Beauceville to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Beauceville
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauceville | Low | $0.048 | 13% | None listed |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins 1,935 · 7.3 km | Low | $0.044 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce 5,339 · 12 km | Low | $0.056 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Victor 2,344 · 13 km | Low | $0.043 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Benjamin 1,267 · 14 km | Low | $0.055 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Georges 33,881 · 14 km | Low | $0.048 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne 1,460 · 17 km | Low | $0.062 | 13% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Beauceville (low); Notre-Dame-des-Pins comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Beauceville faces
Practical steps for Beauceville’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.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Beauceville’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Beauceville until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Beauceville without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Beauceville, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Beauceville
Does Beauceville flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Beauceville, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is Beauceville at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Beauceville’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2022) is short of the level that counts.
How is Beauceville’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Beauceville grades C− for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Beauceville?
The area’s survey found 13% of 175 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Beauceville.
How big is the earthquake risk in Beauceville?
Expected earthquake damage in Beauceville comes to $0.048 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).