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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainDrummondville’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 0% of area homes over the radon guideline
No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of Drummondville’s homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 0.000% a year). Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.12 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Drummondville grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Drummondville’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Drummondville: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Drummondville faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Drummondville grades B+ for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for Drummondville, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #30 of 507 in Quebec and #939 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. 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.
Little of the land around Drummondville has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Drummondville’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Drummondville, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Nothing inside 5 km of Drummondville’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 12 km off.
Near or far, forest fuel covers a similar share around Drummondville: 15% within 5 km and 12% 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
Near-zero burning puts Drummondville with 144 of the 513 towns in Quebec, far below Mistissini 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.
Drummondville 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Drummondville
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Drummondville: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Drummondville on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Drummondville; in Quebec, 45% of towns have one, below Canada’s 58%.
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 Drummondville’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.”
Shaking is Drummondville’s costliest hazard: $0.12 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
The typical town loses $0.030 a year to shaking; Drummondville loses $0.12, 4 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Drummondville’s $0.12 is close to the median 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.
Drummondville sits above most of Canada’s 2,611 towns on earthquake risk; 23% 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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Drummondville’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 Drummondville are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Drummondville’s area, at 0%, is below the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, though any one home can still be high. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Mauricie et Centre-du-Quebec health region, Drummondville included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around Drummondville (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.
The quietest radon band, under 5%, holds 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns and Drummondville; 63% sit higher.
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 Drummondville as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Drummondville
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Drummondville; 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 Drummondville, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Drummondville
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drummondville | Low | $0.12 | 0% | None listed |
| Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover 5,242 · 6.0 km | Low | $0.12 | 0% | None listed |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham 5,054 · 7.9 km | Low | $0.11 | 0% | None listed |
| Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham 1,373 · 10 km | Low | $0.13 | 0% | None listed |
| Saint-Lucien 1,941 · 11 km | Low | $0.099 | 0% | None listed |
| Wickham 2,745 · 13 km | Low | $0.10 | 0% | None listed |
| Saint-Eugène 1,180 · 17 km | Low | $0.12 | 0% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Drummondville (low); Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Drummondville faces
What to do about the hazards Drummondville faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
- Is earthquake cover included?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Drummondville until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Drummondville’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Drummondville without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Drummondville’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Drummondville
Is Drummondville at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around Drummondville since 1986 (last in 2025); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Does Drummondville flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Drummondville’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How big is the earthquake risk in Drummondville?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Drummondville’s buildings lose $0.12 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is radon a problem in Drummondville?
Around Drummondville, 58 survey homes were tested and 0% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Drummondville’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Drummondville’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
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).