Civil Security Events in Québec Municipalities, June 2020 Onwards

Civil security event records from the Québec Ministry of Public Security Operations Department, starting in June 2020. The dataset includes the reporting date, hazard type, municipality, and event severity. It is published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in civil security incidents based on the reporting date.
• Map the geographic distribution of hazards based on the municipality field.
• Assess the impact of severity classification changes in 2026 on historical event analysis.
• Model risk profiles for different hazard types mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data collection began in June 2020, providing a multi-year time series.
• Includes a detailed, multi-level severity classification system for events.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, WFS) in addition to CSV.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The severity level definitions changed meaning in January 2026, complicating time-series analysis.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Recorded by the Operations Department of the Ministry of Public Security.

Time Range

June 2020 onwards

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 17:34:48.809107; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Municipalities in Québec, Canada