Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0Neuville’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 8.8% of area homes over the radon guideline
The national fire record shows next to nothing around Neuville, 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.001% a year). Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.14 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Hazard risk gives Neuville a grade of C−, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Neuville’s hazards
For Neuville, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Neuville faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Neuville grades C− for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Neuville’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
Its place: #336 of 507 in Quebec and #2,300 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Neuville: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Neuville’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Around Neuville fire takes 0.001% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Neuville’s homes came within 14 km, never inside 5 km.
About as much forest grows next to Neuville’s homes (34% within 5 km) as across 25 km (30%).
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
In the upper half in Quebec but far from Mistissini (0.31%): Neuville ranks 136th of 513, 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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Neuville reads low, with 92% of them; only 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 Neuville
Flood studies whose area touches Neuville, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Neuville, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Neuville 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Neuville.
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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Neuville $0.14 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Roughly 4.8 times the typical $0.030: Neuville’s $0.14 marks real seismic exposure.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Quebec is $0.14; Neuville, at $0.14, is right beside it, and La Pocatière tops the list 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.
Neuville sits above most of Canada’s 2,611 towns on earthquake risk; 20% 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).
For Neuville 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).
8.8% of homes tested around Neuville are over the radon 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
The survey area of Neuville reads 8.8%, a shade from the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
2.5% of tests around Neuville passed 600 Bq/m³; over 200, its 8.8% matches the median in Quebec, 8.2%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Neuville, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% are 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.
A low area share in Neuville doesn’t clear a house, nor does a high one condemn it: test.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Neuville
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Neuville; 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 Neuville, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Neuville’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neuville | Low | $0.14 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly 1,747 · 4.5 km | Low | $0.14 | 13% | None listed |
| Pont-Rouge 11,339 · 10 km | Low | $0.15 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Donnacona 7,785 · 11 km | Low | $0.11 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Saint-Apollinaire 9,218 · 12 km | Low | $0.14 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures 20,864 · 12 km | Low | $0.12 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Sainte-Croix 2,612 · 14 km | Low | $0.13 | 13% | None listed |
Neuville’s low band tops its neighbours; Pont-Rouge is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Neuville faces
Practical steps for Neuville’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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
- Is earthquake cover included?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Neuville.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Neuville’s included.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Neuville takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Neuville.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Neuville
How is Neuville’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Neuville C−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is radon a problem in Neuville?
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 Neuville.
How big is the earthquake risk in Neuville?
About $0.14 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Neuville.
Is Neuville at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Neuville’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 1989) is short of the level that counts.
Does Neuville flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Neuville, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
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).