Photo: Interaction Qui Ltée · Public domainShaking costs buildings in Hébertville-Station $0.27 a year per $1,000 of value, 9 times the typical town’s
Wildfire is rare near Hébertville-Station: 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.001% a year. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 2.8% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Hébertville-Station a grade of C+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Hébertville-Station’s hazards
For Hébertville-Station, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Hébertville-Station faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hébertville-Station grades C+ for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for Hébertville-Station, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Only 72 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Hébertville-Station: 0.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Hébertville-Station’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Around Hébertville-Station fire takes 0.001% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
No fire has burned within 5 km of Hébertville-Station’s homes since 1986; the nearest burn is 12 km away.
Within 5 km of Hébertville-Station, 15% of the land is forest fuel; widen the ring to 25 km and it is 60%.
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%): Hébertville-Station 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 Hébertville-Station, 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.
No flood study is listed for Hébertville-Station
Flood studies whose area touches Hébertville-Station, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Hébertville-Station, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Hébertville-Station; 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 mapping is shown for Hébertville-Station 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.”
High seismic risk in Hébertville-Station: $0.27 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.
The typical town loses $0.030 a year to shaking; Hébertville-Station loses $0.27, 8.9 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Quebec expects $0.14 a year; Hébertville-Station expects $0.27, and La Pocatière $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.
Few of Canada’s 2,611 towns face more earthquake damage than Hébertville-Station: 6.2% of them.
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 Hébertville-Station 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).
Radon runs low around Hébertville-Station: 2.8% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Where the typical Canadian town has 6.6% of homes over the guideline, Hébertville-Station’s area has fewer, 2.8%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Hébertville-Station’s area, at 2.8%, is below the median in Quebec (8.2%), though 1.4% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Hébertville-Station is in the lowest band, with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns: under 5% of tests over the guideline, while 63% have more.
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.
Whatever Hébertville-Station’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Saguenay - Lac-Saint-Jean health region
Where to get warnings in Hébertville-Station
Alerts for Hébertville-Station 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 Hébertville-Station 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)
How Hébertville-Station’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hébertville-Station | Low | $0.27 | 2.8% | None listed |
| Saint-Bruno 2,935 · 3.1 km | Low | $0.24 | 2.8% | None listed |
| Hébertville 2,588 · 6.5 km | Low | $0.20 | 2.8% | Yes |
| Saint-Gédéon 2,349 · 7.8 km | Low | $0.22 | 2.8% | None listed |
| Larouche 1,734 · 11 km | Low | $0.20 | 2.8% | None listed |
| Alma 30,659 · 12 km | Low | $0.22 | 2.8% | None listed |
| Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix 4,230 · 15 km | Low | $0.18 | 2.8% | None listed |
The fire record around Larouche is a touch heavier than Hébertville-Station’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 Hébertville-Station faces
What to do about the hazards Hébertville-Station 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Hébertville-Station’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Hébertville-Station is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Hébertville-Station, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Hébertville-Station.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Hébertville-Station
How is Hébertville-Station’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hébertville-Station’s Hazard risk grade is C+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Hébertville-Station?
Around Hébertville-Station, 72 survey homes were tested and 2.8% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Is Hébertville-Station at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.1% of the land around Hébertville-Station since 1986 (last in 2022); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Does Hébertville-Station flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Hébertville-Station’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How big is the earthquake risk in Hébertville-Station?
About $0.27 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Hébertville-Station.
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).