Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Hazards in Saint-Fabien-de-Panet: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 13% of tested homes
Wildfire barely registers for Saint-Fabien-de-Panet, at 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.072 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Saint-Fabien-de-Panet grades C− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s hazards
For Saint-Fabien-de-Panet, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Saint-Fabien-de-Panet faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Saint-Fabien-de-Panet grades C− for hazard risk
The grade weighs Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
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.
Little of the land around Saint-Fabien-de-Panet has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low: the land around Saint-Fabien-de-Panet burns at 0.000% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s homes came within 16 km, never inside 5 km.
About as much forest grows next to Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s homes (72% within 5 km) as across 25 km (76%).
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
To three decimals the burn rate around Saint-Fabien-de-Panet is zero, as for 145 of the 514 towns in Quebec, while Mistissini reaches 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.
Like most of Canada’s 2,610 towns (92%), Saint-Fabien-de-Panet is in the low band, with a burn rate of zero to three decimals; 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 Saint-Fabien-de-Panet
Flood studies whose area touches Saint-Fabien-de-Panet, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Saint-Fabien-de-Panet, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Saint-Fabien-de-Panet; 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 is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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.”
Shaking is Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s costliest hazard: $0.072 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.
The typical town loses $0.030 a year to shaking; Saint-Fabien-de-Panet loses $0.072, 2.4 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Quebec peaks in La Pocatière ($0.48); Saint-Fabien-de-Panet, at $0.072, is below the median of $0.14.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Saint-Fabien-de-Panet sits above most of Canada’s 2,611 towns on earthquake risk; 28% 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 Saint-Fabien-de-Panet 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).
Test for radon in Saint-Fabien-de-Panet: 13% of area homes were over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Radon tests for the Chaudiere-Appalaches health region
At 13% over the guideline, the area around Saint-Fabien-de-Panet beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Saint-Fabien-de-Panet (13%) than in the typical town in Quebec (8.2%); 0.6% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Saint-Fabien-de-Panet 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 low area share in Saint-Fabien-de-Panet 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 Saint-Fabien-de-Panet
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Saint-Fabien-de-Panet; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Saint-Fabien-de-Panet come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Saint-Fabien-de-Panet faces
What to do about the hazards Saint-Fabien-de-Panet 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.
- 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. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s included.
- 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 Saint-Fabien-de-Panet.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Saint-Fabien-de-Panet takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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-Fabien-de-Panet.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Saint-Fabien-de-Panet
How big is the earthquake risk in Saint-Fabien-de-Panet?
Expected earthquake damage in Saint-Fabien-de-Panet comes to $0.072 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Does Saint-Fabien-de-Panet flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How is Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Saint-Fabien-de-Panet’s Hazard risk grade is C−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Saint-Fabien-de-Panet at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around Saint-Fabien-de-Panet since 1986 (last in 2023); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Is radon a problem in Saint-Fabien-de-Panet?
Around Saint-Fabien-de-Panet, 175 survey homes were tested and 13% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
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).