Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0A flood study covers Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Gouvernement du Québec
Fire seldom reaches Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan: since 1986, 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.002% a year). Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.13 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon is lower than usual: 0% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan: B+
Seismic risk and radon set Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The radon share rests on 58 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan: 0.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0.1% within 5 km
Past fire around Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan burns at 0.002% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Forest fuel is denser close to Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan (41% within 5 km) than further out (32% 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 514
Mistissini burns fastest in Quebec at 0.31% a year; Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, at 0.002%, ranks 35th of 514.
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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan among them, though its rate is above zero; 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.
Gouvernement du Québec has mapped flooding for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Gouvernement du Québec studied flooding in an area that includes Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan (1990); open its map to see which streets lie in a flood zone.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| St-Stanislas | Gouvernement du Québec | 1990 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan is one of the 45% of towns in Quebec with a flood study on file, fewer than Canada’s 58%.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan.
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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
High seismic risk in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan: $0.13 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Roughly 4.4 times the typical $0.030: Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s $0.13 marks real seismic exposure.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s $0.13 is close to the median in Quebec, $0.14; La Pocatière is highest 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.
22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, which places it in the upper third.
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).
The model counts damage to Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
0% of homes tested around Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Where the typical Canadian town has 6.6% of homes over the guideline, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s area has fewer, 0%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s area, at 0%, is below 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.
Under 5% puts Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 63% have more high tests.
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 Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan 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). · Data for radon tests covers the Mauricie et Centre-du-Quebec health region
Weather and fire alerts for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
Alerts for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan come from Environment and Climate Change Canada and, for emergencies, Alert Ready.
| 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. |
Evacuation orders for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | Low | $0.13 | 0% | Yes |
| Saint-Stanislas 1,040 · 6.3 km | Low | $0.13 | 0% | Yes |
| Saint-Narcisse 1,848 · 8.0 km | Low | $0.11 | 0% | None listed |
| Batiscan 1,006 · 11 km | Low | $0.12 | 0% | Yes |
| Champlain 1,957 · 12 km | Low | $0.12 | 0% | Yes |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade 2,036 · 14 km | Low | $0.13 | 0% | None listed |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets 1,172 · 14 km | Low | $0.13 | 0% | None listed |
Saint-Narcisse (low) has the heaviest fire record of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s neighbours, and Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan faces
Practical steps for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
- Is earthquake cover included?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan until then.
- 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 Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’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 Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
How big is the earthquake risk in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s buildings lose $0.13 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is radon a problem in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan?
The area’s survey found 0% of 58 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan.
Is Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s low band (0.1% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2024) is short of the level that counts.
How is Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan flood?
A flood study covers Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
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).