Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazards in La Guadeloupe: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 13% of tested homes
Wildfire is rare near La Guadeloupe: 0% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.000% a year. NRCan expects $0.043 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in La Guadeloupe, near the typical $0.030. La Guadeloupe grades C for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about La Guadeloupe’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for La Guadeloupe: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What La Guadeloupe faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
La Guadeloupe grades C for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set La Guadeloupe’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
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.
Few fires near La Guadeloupe: 0.1% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where La Guadeloupe’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
In a typical year 0.000% of the land near La Guadeloupe burns; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%, and both are low.
The nearer ring around La Guadeloupe is less wooded (49% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (57%).
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
Among the 514 towns in Quebec, Mistissini burns fastest (0.31% a year); La Guadeloupe is with the 145 near zero.
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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; La Guadeloupe is among the many where the yearly burn rate rounds to zero.
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 La Guadeloupe
Flood studies whose area touches La Guadeloupe, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
An empty entry for La Guadeloupe on the inventory isn’t proof of safety; ask locally for flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches La Guadeloupe; 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 studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for La Guadeloupe.
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.”
Expected shaking damage in La Guadeloupe: $0.043 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
At $0.043 per $1,000, La Guadeloupe’s earthquake risk is about the typical Canadian town’s ($0.030; 1.4 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Quebec: La Guadeloupe’s $0.043 against a median of $0.14; La Pocatière has $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.
Neither high nor low for Canada: 36% of the 2,611 towns expect more damage than La Guadeloupe.
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 model counts damage to La Guadeloupe’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
13% of homes tested around La Guadeloupe are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
La Guadeloupe’s survey area reads 13% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around La Guadeloupe, 13% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 0.6% over 600, against a median of 8.2% in Quebec.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: La Guadeloupe 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in La Guadeloupe 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). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Chaudiere-Appalaches health region
Weather and fire alerts for La Guadeloupe
Alerts for La Guadeloupe 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near La Guadeloupe are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How La Guadeloupe’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Guadeloupe | Low | $0.043 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley 1,610 · 8.6 km | Low | $0.045 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce 2,575 · 9.6 km | Low | $0.046 | 13% | Yes |
| Adstock 3,203 · 15 km | Low | $0.045 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Benoît-Labre 1,655 · 16 km | Low | $0.052 | 13% | None listed |
| Lambton 1,714 · 18 km | Low | $0.038 | 7.3% | None listed |
| Saint-Victor 2,344 · 19 km | Low | $0.043 | 13% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than La Guadeloupe (low); Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what La Guadeloupe faces
Practical steps for La Guadeloupe’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. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; La Guadeloupe’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 La Guadeloupe sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around La Guadeloupe’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 La Guadeloupe floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in La Guadeloupe
Does La Guadeloupe flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers La Guadeloupe (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is La Guadeloupe at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: La Guadeloupe’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2016), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in La Guadeloupe?
13% of the 175 homes Health Canada tested around La Guadeloupe topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How big is the earthquake risk in La Guadeloupe?
Expected earthquake damage in La Guadeloupe comes to $0.043 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is La Guadeloupe’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives La Guadeloupe C, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).