The purpose of this dataset is to make it possible to locate civil security events recorded by the Operations Department of the Ministry of Public Security. It brings together in a structured way operational information related to impending claims or that have had an impact on citizens, goods or services to the population since June 2020. It contains information concerning the date of reporting, the hazard, the municipality and the severity of the event. The severity level changed in meaning in January 2026. BEFORE 2026: it is an attribute defined in the Canadian Common Alert Protocol Profile (PC-PAC). It is used to characterize the severity level of an event based on the harm to the lives of people or damage to property. For more information on the PC-PAC, consult the Public Safety Canada website. * Extreme: extraordinary threat to life or property; * Important: significant threat to life or property; * Moderate: possible threat to life or property; * Minor: low or non-existent threat to life or property; * Unknown: unknown severity, used for example during tests and exercises. AFTER 2026: * Unknown: Negligible or Oversight, no disturbances. The minimum severity “Unknown” is used to differentiate events under surveillance or forecasting, from events with real impacts (where interventions and consequences materialize). * Moderate: Disruptions in community functioning requiring significant mobilization of local resources or existing agreements. Degradation or partial interruption of certain services and sectors of activity, specific media issue, several sectors affected. * Important: A significant and long-lasting disturbance in community functioning. Mobilization of external resources required for certain issues. Interruption or significant deterioration of the majority of services. * Extreme: Situation in which the community cannot function without significant external resource support, massive evacuation, considerable losses. **This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

The purpose of this dataset is to locate the events related to the spring 2023 floods recorded by the Deputy Directorate General of Operations of the Ministry of Public Security. All data can be viewed on an interactive map and available as WMS and WFS web services. > To monitor the status of watercourses live, please refer to the [Vigilance - Flood Monitoring] application (https://vigilance.geo.msp.gouv.qc.ca/) ### List of available data: * **Open water extent polygons derived from satellite data**: extent limits of open waters derived from radar satellite images. * **Location of flood events since April 14, 2023**: points approximately locating the flood events recorded by the Operations Directorate of the Ministry of Public Security as of April 14, 2023 (derived from the [Civil Security Events] dataset (https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/evenements-de-securite-civile)). * **Municipalities affected by flood events since April 14, 2023**: cartographic representation of municipalities affected by flood events since April 14, 2023. * **Sentinel-2 satellite image**: satellite image covering flooded areas and presented as a colored compound using short band infrared, near infrared, and red wavelengths. ## #Note: Satellite acquisitions for the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) are planned in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada. The images obtained are processed by the emergency geomatics services of Natural Resources Canada as soon as possible and then the open water polygons are distributed as open data on Data Canada and on Data Quebec. Other optical or radar acquisitions may have been obtained by the Ministry of Public Security (MSP) from private suppliers. The Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 acquisitions released in open data by the European Space Agency (ESA) were processed by the Dromedaire Géo-Innovations firm. **This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**