Photo: Pal507 · CC BY-SA 3.0Wildfire low, radon 13%: how Tring-Jonction stands on hazards
For Tring-Jonction, wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.060 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Tring-Jonction grades C− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Tring-Jonction’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Tring-Jonction: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Tring-Jonction faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Tring-Jonction: C−
The grade weighs Tring-Jonction’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: 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.
Wildfire is rare near Tring-Jonction: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Tring-Jonction’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.000% of the land around Tring-Jonction each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
The 5 km ring around Tring-Jonction’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 22 km out.
Forest fuel is spread evenly around Tring-Jonction: 44% within 5 km, 43% 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
Fire has taken almost none of the land around Tring-Jonction, as for 145 of the 514 towns in Quebec; Mistissini tops the list 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Tring-Jonction, burning rounds to zero.
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 Tring-Jonction
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Tring-Jonction: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Tring-Jonction, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Quebec reaches 45% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Tring-Jonction.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Tring-Jonction’s homes are at risk.
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 Tring-Jonction $0.060 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
The typical town loses $0.030 a year to shaking; Tring-Jonction loses $0.060, 2 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Quebec: Tring-Jonction’s $0.060 against a median of $0.14; La Pocatière has $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.
29% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Tring-Jonction, 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 Tring-Jonction’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).
Radon runs high around Tring-Jonction: 13% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Tring-Jonction’s survey area reads 13% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Chaudiere-Appalaches health region, with Tring-Jonction one part of it.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Tring-Jonction’s area, at 13%, is above the median in Quebec (8.2%), and 0.6% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Tring-Jonction 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.
The share describes the area, not a house: in Tring-Jonction as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Tring-Jonction
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Tring-Jonction; 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 Tring-Jonction, 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 Tring-Jonction’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tring-Jonction | Low | $0.060 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Frédéric 1,172 · 5.3 km | Low | $0.043 | 13% | None listed |
| East Broughton 2,311 · 7.7 km | Low | $0.042 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce 5,339 · 12 km | Low | $0.056 | 13% | None listed |
| Vallée-Jonction 2,042 · 14 km | Low | $0.049 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Victor 2,344 · 15 km | Low | $0.043 | 13% | None listed |
| Saint-Elzéar 2,842 · 16 km | Low | $0.051 | 13% | None listed |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Tring-Jonction (low), with Saint-Frédéric next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Tring-Jonction faces
What to do about the hazards Tring-Jonction 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
- 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 Tring-Jonction floods.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Tring-Jonction’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- 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 Tring-Jonction sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Tring-Jonction’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Tring-Jonction
Is radon a problem in Tring-Jonction?
Around Tring-Jonction, 175 survey homes were tested and 13% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Tring-Jonction’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Tring-Jonction grades C− for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Tring-Jonction at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around Tring-Jonction since 1986 (last in 2022); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Does Tring-Jonction flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Tring-Jonction’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How big is the earthquake risk in Tring-Jonction?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Tring-Jonction’s buildings lose $0.060 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
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).