Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0On hazards, Listuguj comes out behind 91% of Canadian towns
Little of the land around Listuguj has burned: 0.1% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.003% a year. NRCan expects $0.053 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Listuguj, near the typical $0.030. Radon is higher than usual: 25% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Listuguj a grade of D, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Listuguj’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Listuguj: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Listuguj faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Listuguj: D
Earthquake risk and radon make Listuguj’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Listuguj: 2% within 5 km, 0.1% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Listuguj’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Fire claims 0.003% of the land around Listuguj each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
There is forest near Listuguj’s homes (24% within 5 km) and more of it further out (54% 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 514
The land around Listuguj burns at 0.003% a year, the 32nd highest rate of 514 towns in Quebec; Mistissini tops it 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.
Some fire is mapped around Listuguj, 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 Listuguj
Flood studies whose area touches Listuguj, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Listuguj, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Listuguj has no flood study on file; only 45% of towns in Quebec do, against 58% across Canada.
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 Listuguj.
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.”
Ordinary seismic risk in Listuguj: $0.053 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.
1.8 times the typical $0.030: Listuguj’s $0.053 is ordinary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Listuguj’s $0.053 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.
Listuguj sits above most of Canada’s 2,611 towns on earthquake risk; 30% 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 Listuguj’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).
25% of homes tested around Listuguj are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Listuguj’s area, at 25%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Listuguj (25%) than in the typical town in Quebec (8.2%); 3.4% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Few of Canada’s 2,611 towns (3.1%) share the 20–30% band with Listuguj, and 1.5% sit above it.
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 Listuguj as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Data for radon tests covers the Gaspesie - Iles-de-la-Madeleine health region
Weather and fire alerts for Listuguj
Alerts for Listuguj 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 Listuguj 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 Listuguj
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listuguj | Low | $0.053 | 25% | None listed |
| Pointe-à-la-Croix 1,294 · 6.8 km | Low | $0.036 | 25% | None listed |
| Campbellton 7,485 · 9.3 km | Low | $0.038 | 24% | Yes |
| Atholville 3,346 · 14 km | Low | $0.035 | 24% | Yes |
| Dalhousie 1,132 · 19 km | Low | $0.033 | 24% | Yes |
Pointe-à-la-Croix (low) has the heaviest fire record of Listuguj’s neighbours, and Listuguj (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Listuguj faces
Practical steps for Listuguj’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
- 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 Listuguj.
- 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 Listuguj’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Listuguj’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Listuguj is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Listuguj
Does Listuguj flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Listuguj, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is Listuguj at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Listuguj’s low band (0.1% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
Is radon a problem in Listuguj?
The area’s survey found 25% of 174 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Listuguj.
How is Listuguj’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Listuguj D, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Listuguj?
Expected earthquake damage in Listuguj comes to $0.053 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).