Some local governments have compiled their own easier-to-read flood maps based on the same information. (You can look at the FEMA flood map for your address here.) ...

Although the new maps have yet to be produced, officials expect that nearly 77,000 homes, or two per cent of Quebec's population, could find themselves in a flood zone compared to 22,000 today.

Flood waters surround a home by the River Brtas-du-Nord, Monday, May 1, 2023 in Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec. Provincial police searched on Monday for two people swept away by the current on the ...

Quebec Environment Minister Benoît Charette told reporters Tuesday that the exact number will be known once most of the updated flood zone maps are available by fall 2025. Still, Beis is concerned.