Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Wildfire low, radon 8.2%: how Saint-Anicet stands on hazards
Wildfire isn’t Saint-Anicet’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.001% a year). Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.19 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Saint-Anicet grades C− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Saint-Anicet’s hazards
For Saint-Anicet, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Saint-Anicet faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Saint-Anicet grades C− for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Saint-Anicet with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #349 of 507 in Quebec and #2,317 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Saint-Anicet has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Saint-Anicet’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The yearly burn rate around Saint-Anicet is 0.001%, low beside 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Saint-Anicet’s homes came within 9.7 km, never inside 5 km.
Forest fuel is scarce around Saint-Anicet: 1.5% of the land within 5 km, 2.7% 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
At 0.001% a year, Saint-Anicet ranks 136th of the 513 towns in Quebec; Mistissini leads 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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Saint-Anicet burns, but slower than in the 7.5% above it.
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 Saint-Anicet
Flood studies whose area touches Saint-Anicet, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Saint-Anicet, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 45% of towns in Quebec have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Saint-Anicet is not among them.
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 Saint-Anicet.
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 Saint-Anicet $0.19 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.
At $0.19 per $1,000, Saint-Anicet carries roughly 6.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.19, Saint-Anicet is above the typical town in Quebec ($0.14); La Pocatière has the most 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.
More earthquake risk than most: only 13% of Canada’s 2,611 towns are above Saint-Anicet.
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Saint-Anicet.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Some radon around Saint-Anicet: 8.2% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Around Saint-Anicet, 8.2% of tested homes topped the guideline, near the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon around Saint-Anicet is ordinary for towns in Quebec: 8.2%, beside a median of 8.2%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
26% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Saint-Anicet’s 5–10% band, which holds 37%.
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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Saint-Anicet’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: one figure for all of the Monteregie health region
Where to get warnings in Saint-Anicet
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Saint-Anicet; 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. |
For fires near Saint-Anicet, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Saint-Anicet
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Anicet | Low | $0.19 | 8.2% | None listed |
| Rivière-Beaudette 2,806 · 12 km | Low | $0.15 | 8.2% | Yes |
| Sainte-Barbe 1,993 · 12 km | Low | $0.17 | 8.2% | None listed |
| Godmanchester 1,590 · 14 km | Low | $0.20 | 8.2% | Yes |
| Saint-Zotique 10,445 · 15 km | Low | $0.11 | 8.2% | None listed |
| Huntingdon 3,001 · 17 km | Low | $0.20 | 8.2% | Yes |
| South Glengarry 14,355 · 17 km | Low | $0.20 | 6.1% | Yes |
Sainte-Barbe burns a little more than Saint-Anicet, in the same low band (low here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Saint-Anicet faces
What to do about the hazards Saint-Anicet 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. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Saint-Anicet’s included.
- 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 Saint-Anicet.
- 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 Saint-Anicet floods.
- 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 Saint-Anicet sits in.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Saint-Anicet
How is Saint-Anicet’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Saint-Anicet C−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Saint-Anicet?
About $0.19 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Saint-Anicet.
Is Saint-Anicet at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0% of the land within 25 km of Saint-Anicet has burned since 1986, the last in 2024, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
Is radon a problem in Saint-Anicet?
In Health Canada’s survey, 8.2% of 110 homes tested in Saint-Anicet’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Saint-Anicet flood?
Nothing is listed for Saint-Anicet on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
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).