Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.020% of homes tested in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s area are above the radon guideline
Fire seldom reaches Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est: since 1986, 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.002% a year). For earthquakes Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est is middling, $0.034 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est grades C− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s hazards
For Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est: C−
The grade weighs Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
Its place: #28 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,333 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est: 0% within 5 km, 0.1% within 25 km
Past fire around Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
A burn rate of 0.002% a year keeps Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
Fire has stayed at least 19 km from Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s homes since 1986.
Within 5 km of Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est, 56% of the land is forest fuel; widen the ring to 25 km and it is 65%.
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 New Brunswick · highest of 60
Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est burns at 0.002% a year, 30th of 60 towns in New Brunswick; the leader, Tracadie, reaches 0.28%.
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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est among them, though its rate is above zero; 7.5% rank higher.
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.
A flood study covers Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est, from Service New Brunswick - GeoNB: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Service New Brunswick - GeoNB holds the flood mapping that covers Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est (2020), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inland Flood Mapping in New Brunswick and Updated Sea-Level Rise and Flooding Estimates for New Brunswick Coastal Sections 2020 | Service New Brunswick - GeoNB | 2020 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
93% of towns in New Brunswick have a flood study, more than Canada’s 58%; Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est has one too.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est.
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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Ordinary seismic risk in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est: $0.034 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
1.1 times the typical $0.030: Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s $0.034 is ordinary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est runs at $0.034 a year, near the $0.036 of the typical town in New Brunswick; St. Stephen has $0.16.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est (46%).
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Test for radon in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est: 20% of area homes were over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Region 1 health region
More homes than usual test high around Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est: 20% against 6.6% for the typical Canadian town.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
3.7% of tests around Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est passed 600 Bq/m³; over 200, its 20% matches the median in New Brunswick, 20%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
4.6% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est, in the 10–20% band with 22%.
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.
Neighbouring homes in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est
Alerts for Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est come from Environment and Climate Change Canada and, for emergencies, Alert Ready.
| 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. |
Evacuation orders for Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
Among its neighbours Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est has the most fire on record (low); Cap-Pelé follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est faces
What to do about the hazards Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est 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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. For Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- 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 Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est floods.
- 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 Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est sits in.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est
Is Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.1% of the land within 25 km of Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est has burned since 1986, the last in 2025, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
How big is the earthquake risk in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est $0.034 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est flood?
Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
How is Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est grades C− for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est?
In Health Canada’s survey, 20% of 107 homes tested in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
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).