Photo: LBM1948 · CC BY-SA 4.0On hazards, Saint-Tite-des-Caps comes out behind 85% of Canadian towns
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Saint-Tite-des-Caps, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.21 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ survey area, 8.8% over the radon guideline, is close to the typical town’s 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Saint-Tite-des-Caps a grade of D, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Saint-Tite-des-Caps’s hazards
For Saint-Tite-des-Caps, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Saint-Tite-des-Caps faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Saint-Tite-des-Caps grades D for hazard risk
For Saint-Tite-des-Caps, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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.
Few fires near Saint-Tite-des-Caps: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Saint-Tite-des-Caps, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Nothing inside 5 km of Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 7.3 km off.
The nearer ring around Saint-Tite-des-Caps is less wooded (59% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (67%).
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
Among the 514 towns in Quebec, Mistissini burns fastest (0.31% a year); Saint-Tite-des-Caps is with the 145 near zero.
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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, Saint-Tite-des-Caps is in the largest group, low (92%), and at its floor, while 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Saint-Tite-des-Caps
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Saint-Tite-des-Caps: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Saint-Tite-des-Caps, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 45% of towns in Quebec have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Saint-Tite-des-Caps 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-Tite-des-Caps.
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.”
High seismic risk in Saint-Tite-des-Caps: $0.21 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ $0.21 is about 6.8 times the typical town’s $0.030: it sits in one of Canada’s more active seismic zones.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ $0.21 tops the median in Quebec, $0.14, though La Pocatière reaches $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.
Only 8.4% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Saint-Tite-des-Caps.
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-Tite-des-Caps.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon about average around Saint-Tite-des-Caps: 8.8% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Shared with the rest of the Capitale-Nationale health region: radon tests
At 8.8% over the guideline, the area around Saint-Tite-des-Caps is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
2.5% of tests around Saint-Tite-des-Caps 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: Saint-Tite-des-Caps, 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.
Neighbouring homes in Saint-Tite-des-Caps can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Saint-Tite-des-Caps
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Saint-Tite-des-Caps; 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-Tite-des-Caps, 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)
How Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Tite-des-Caps | Low | $0.21 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges 4,083 · 6.2 km | Low | $0.17 | 8.8% | None listed |
| Saint-Joachim 1,425 · 11 km | Low | $0.15 | 8.8% | Yes |
| Beaupré 4,314 · 14 km | Low | $0.11 | 8.8% | Yes |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré 3,173 · 18 km | Low | $0.13 | 8.8% | None listed |
The neighbour with the most fire is Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges (low), still no more than Saint-Tite-des-Caps (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Saint-Tite-des-Caps faces
Practical steps for Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Saint-Tite-des-Caps, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Saint-Tite-des-Caps 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-Tite-des-Caps until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Saint-Tite-des-Caps
How is Saint-Tite-des-Caps’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Saint-Tite-des-Caps grades D for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Saint-Tite-des-Caps flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Saint-Tite-des-Caps (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Saint-Tite-des-Caps?
8.8% of the 160 homes Health Canada tested around Saint-Tite-des-Caps topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is Saint-Tite-des-Caps at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Saint-Tite-des-Caps’ band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2020), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Saint-Tite-des-Caps?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Saint-Tite-des-Caps $0.21 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).