diff --git a/config/runtime.exs b/config/runtime.exs
index fc6ec5e7..c22a1833 100644
--- a/config/runtime.exs
+++ b/config/runtime.exs
@@ -249,12 +249,15 @@ if config_env() == :prod do
        {"5,20,35,50 * * * *", Microwaveprop.Workers.PropagationGridWorker},
        # HRDPS Canadian propagation chain. ECCC publishes HRDPS f000
        # ~3-4h after each 00/06/12/18Z cycle. Worker seeds exactly one
-       # forecast row per fire (current hour), so we run hourly to keep
-       # the /weather Canadian cell within ~1h of clock time. Reseeds
-       # are idempotent through the (run_time, forecast_hour, kind, source)
-       # unique index — duplicate fires for an already-seeded hour are
-       # no-ops at the DB level.
-       {"35 * * * *", Microwaveprop.Workers.HrdpsGridWorker},
+       # forecast row per fire (current hour). Reseeds are idempotent
+       # through the (run_time, forecast_hour, kind, source) unique
+       # index — duplicate fires for an already-seeded hour are no-ops
+       # at the DB level, so running 3×/hour costs nothing on the happy
+       # path and gives us 2 retry windows when a rolling deploy kills
+       # the pod mid-cron-tick. The single-replica `prop` deployment
+       # combined with frequent ArgoCD deploys was reliably missing the
+       # hourly :35 fire — multiple shots per hour fixes that.
+       {"5,25,45 * * * *", Microwaveprop.Workers.HrdpsGridWorker},
        # GEFS runs publish ~3-4h after the 00/06/12/18Z cycle; seed the
        # Day 2-7 outlook 5h after each run to stay safely past NOMADS'
        # publication lag. Seeder enqueues f024-f168 at 6-hour cadence