Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Kingsclear, 17% of tested homes have radon above the guideline
Wildfire isn’t Kingsclear’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.000% a year). Earthquake risk in Kingsclear is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.034 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Kingsclear grades C for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Kingsclear’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Kingsclear: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Kingsclear faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Kingsclear: C
For Kingsclear, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
Its place: #13 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,236 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Kingsclear: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Kingsclear’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Forty years of fire maps put Kingsclear at 0.000% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Kingsclear’s homes came within 12 km, never inside 5 km.
About as much forest grows next to Kingsclear’s homes (75% within 5 km) as across 25 km (79%).
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
Little or nothing burns around Kingsclear in a typical year; 15 of the 60 towns in New Brunswick share that, and Tracadie leads at 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 holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Kingsclear sits at its very bottom; only 7.5% are above it.
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.
Kingsclear is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Service New Brunswick - GeoNB
Flood studies whose area touches Kingsclear, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
For Kingsclear the inventory points to Service New Brunswick - GeoNB’s 2020 study, whose map is the one to check.
| 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
Kingsclear is one of the 93% of towns in New Brunswick with a flood study on file; across Canada it is 58%.
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 Kingsclear.
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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Kingsclear $0.034 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Earthquake losses in Kingsclear, $0.034 per $1,000, are in line with the typical $0.030 (1.1 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in New Brunswick: Kingsclear’s $0.034 against $0.036; St. Stephen reaches $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.
Middle of the pack: 46% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more earthquake risk than Kingsclear.
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).
The model counts damage to Kingsclear’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon runs high around Kingsclear: 17% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
the typical Canadian town has 6.6% over the guideline; Kingsclear’s area has 17%. Kingsclear shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Region 3 health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Ordinary for towns in New Brunswick at 17% over 200 Bq/m³ (20% is the median), the area around Kingsclear had 7.1% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
The 10–20% band holds 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, Kingsclear among them; 4.6% rank above.
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.
The survey sampled homes around Kingsclear; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Kingsclear
Alerts for Kingsclear 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Kingsclear are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Kingsclear
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsclear | Low | $0.034 | 17% | Yes |
| Starlight Village 5,108 · 10.0 km | Low | $0.036 | 17% | Yes |
| Queensbury 1,421 · 11 km | Low | $0.041 | 17% | None listed |
| Prince William 1,233 · 11 km | Low | $0.042 | 17% | None listed |
| New Maryland 3,198 · 15 km | Moderate | $0.046 | 17% | None listed |
| Bright 3,648 · 15 km | Low | $0.034 | 17% | Yes |
| New Maryland 4,455 · 15 km | Low | $0.043 | 17% | None listed |
New Maryland has the most fire around it, a moderate band against Kingsclear’s low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Kingsclear faces
Practical steps for Kingsclear’s hazards, most pressing first.
- 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Kingsclear’s.
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Kingsclear until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Kingsclear’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Kingsclear without grading them.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Kingsclear
Does Kingsclear flood?
A flood study covers Kingsclear on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
How big is the earthquake risk in Kingsclear?
About $0.034 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Kingsclear.
Is Kingsclear at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Kingsclear’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2025), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How is Kingsclear’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Kingsclear grades C for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Kingsclear?
17% of the 112 homes Health Canada tested around Kingsclear topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).