Photo: Nicogag · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazard risk in Saint-Pascal is higher than in 94% of Canadian towns
Burn scars are few around Saint-Pascal, with 0.3% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.007% a year). Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.34 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). More homes than usual carry radon here, 14% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Saint-Pascal grades D for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Saint-Pascal’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Saint-Pascal: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Saint-Pascal faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Saint-Pascal grades D for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Saint-Pascal with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #504 of 507 in Quebec and #2,531 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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 Saint-Pascal: 0% within 5 km, 0.3% within 25 km
Past fire around Saint-Pascal’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Saint-Pascal’s 0.007% is in the low band.
Forest thickens with distance from Saint-Pascal: 26% of the land within 5 km, 62% 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
Mistissini burns fastest in Quebec at 0.31% a year; Saint-Pascal, at 0.007%, ranks 23rd of 513.
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.
Saint-Pascal is in the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 7.5% sit in moderate or 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Saint-Pascal
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Saint-Pascal: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Saint-Pascal, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Saint-Pascal 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 Saint-Pascal.
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-Pascal’s costliest hazard: $0.34 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.34 per $1,000, Saint-Pascal carries roughly 11.3 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.34, Saint-Pascal 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.
Few of Canada’s 2,611 towns face more earthquake damage than Saint-Pascal: 5.7% of them.
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 Saint-Pascal’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).
14% of homes tested around Saint-Pascal are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Bas-Saint-Laurent health region
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Saint-Pascal’s area, at 14%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Saint-Pascal (14%) than in the typical town in Quebec (8.2%); 1.8% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
One test in ten or more tops the guideline around Saint-Pascal, as in 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 4.6% go 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.
One home in Saint-Pascal can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Saint-Pascal
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Saint-Pascal; 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 Saint-Pascal, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Saint-Pascal
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Pascal | Low | $0.34 | 14% | None listed |
| Mont-Carmel 1,191 · 13 km | Low | $0.25 | 14% | None listed |
| Rivière-Ouelle 1,014 · 17 km | Low | $0.48 | 14% | Yes |
| Saint-Pacôme 1,540 · 17 km | Low | $0.30 | 14% | Yes |
The fire record around Rivière-Ouelle is a touch heavier than Saint-Pascal’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Saint-Pascal faces
What to do about the hazards Saint-Pascal 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. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Saint-Pascal’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Saint-Pascal without grading them.
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Saint-Pascal until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Saint-Pascal’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Saint-Pascal
Is Saint-Pascal at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.3% of the land within 25 km of Saint-Pascal has burned since 1986, the last in 2024, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
Is radon a problem in Saint-Pascal?
In Health Canada’s survey, 14% of 171 homes tested in Saint-Pascal’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Saint-Pascal flood?
Nothing is listed for Saint-Pascal on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How is Saint-Pascal’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Saint-Pascal grades D for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Saint-Pascal?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Saint-Pascal $0.34 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).