Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0A flood study covers Beaupré: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Gouvernement du Québec
For Beaupré, wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land since 1986, 0.000% a year. Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.11 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon around Beaupré is ordinary for Canada: 8.8% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Beaupré grades C for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Beaupré’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Beaupré: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Beaupré faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Beaupré: C
Seismic risk and radon set Beaupré’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #234 of 507 in Quebec and #2,183 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Beaupré: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Beaupré’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
At 0.000% of the land a year, Beaupré’s burn rate is in the low band; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
The 5 km ring around Beaupré’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 5.2 km out.
Forest thickens with distance from Beaupré: 17% of the land within 5 km, 47% 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
Little or nothing burns around Beaupré in a typical year; 144 of the 513 towns in Quebec share that, and Mistissini leads at 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.
Beaupré shares the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, its burn rate rounding to nothing; 7.5% burn faster.
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.
Beaupré is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Gouvernement du Québec
Flood studies whose area touches Beaupré, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
For Beaupré the inventory points to Gouvernement du Québec’s 2012 study, whose map is the one to check.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaupré | Gouvernement du Québec | 2012 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Quebec, 45% of towns against 58% nationally, but Beaupré has one.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping is shown for Beaupré to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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.
High seismic risk in Beaupré: $0.11 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Roughly 3.5 times the typical $0.030: Beaupré’s $0.11 marks real seismic exposure.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.11, Beaupré is below the typical town in Quebec ($0.14); La Pocatière is highest 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.
More earthquake risk than most: only 25% of Canada’s 2,611 towns are above Beaupré.
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).
The loss is to Beaupré’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Some radon around Beaupré: 8.8% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Capitale-Nationale health region
Around Beaupré, 8.8% of tested homes topped the guideline, near the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Ordinary for towns in Quebec at 8.8% over 200 Bq/m³ (8.2% is the median), the area around Beaupré had 2.5% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Radon tops the guideline in a modest share of homes around Beaupré, a band holding 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% rank 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Beaupré can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Beaupré
Alerts for Beaupré 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. |
Evacuation orders for Beaupré come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Beaupré
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaupré | Low | $0.11 | 8.8% | Yes |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré 3,173 · 3.4 km | Low | $0.13 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Saint-Joachim 1,425 · 4.5 km | Low | $0.15 | 8.8% | Yes |
| Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges 4,083 · 11 km | Low | $0.17 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Château-Richer 4,732 · 13 km | Low | $0.10 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Saint-Tite-des-Caps 1,611 · 14 km | Low | $0.21 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans 1,006 · 14 km | Low | $0.13 | 8.8% | None listed |
Beaupré’s low band tops its neighbours; Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Beaupré faces
Practical steps for Beaupré’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
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Beaupré’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Beaupré sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Beaupré’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Beaupré floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Beaupré
How big is the earthquake risk in Beaupré?
Expected earthquake damage in Beaupré comes to $0.11 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Does Beaupré flood?
Beaupré’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
Is Beaupré at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Beaupré’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2022) is short of the level that counts.
Is radon a problem in Beaupré?
The area’s survey found 8.8% of 160 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Beaupré.
How is Beaupré’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Beaupré grades C for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers 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).