Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Around New Bandon, 40% of tested homes have radon above the guideline
The burn rate around New Bandon is 0.07% a year (2.4% of the land within 25 km since 1986), a moderate band. NRCan expects $0.040 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in New Bandon, near the typical $0.030. New Bandon grades D for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about New Bandon’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for New Bandon: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What New Bandon faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in New Bandon: D
Seismic risk and radon set New Bandon’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Some fire around New Bandon: 2.4% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around New Bandon’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Moderate: the land around New Bandon burns at 0.07% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
New Bandon’s homes have had no fire within 5 km since 1986; the closest was 7.5 km away.
83% of the land within 5 km of New Bandon is forest fuel, close to the 85% within 25 km.
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 61
Tracadie burns fastest in New Brunswick at 0.28% a year; New Bandon, at 0.07%, ranks 7th of 61.
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.
New Bandon is in the moderate band, which holds 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 2.1% 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 New Bandon, from Service New Brunswick - GeoNB: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for New Bandon: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Service New Brunswick - GeoNB studied flooding in an area that includes New Bandon (2020); open its map to see which streets lie in a flood zone.
| 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%; New Bandon has one too.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping is shown for New Bandon to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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.
Expected shaking damage in New Bandon: $0.040 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Nothing unusual about New Bandon’s ground: $0.040 against a typical $0.030, 1.3 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around New Bandon runs at $0.040 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 New Bandon (43%).
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 loss is to New Bandon’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
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 New Bandon: 40% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
New Bandon’s area, at 40%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around New Bandon, 40% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 17% over 600, against a median of 20% in New Brunswick.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
No band is higher: New Bandon is among the 1.5% of Canada’s towns with 30% or more of tests over 200 Bq/m³.
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 New Bandon; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: the Region 6 health region
Weather and fire alerts for New Bandon
Alerts for New Bandon 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 New Bandon 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)
How New Bandon’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Bandon | Moderate | $0.040 | 40% | Yes |
| Paquetville 2,225 · 13 km | Moderate | $0.043 | 40% | Yes |
| Bertrand 1,209 · 16 km | Moderate | $0.045 | 40% | Yes |
The fire record around Paquetville is a touch heavier than New Bandon’s, but the band is the same: moderate (here moderate).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what New Bandon faces
Practical steps for New Bandon’s hazards, most pressing first.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- 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.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around New Bandon’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for New Bandon is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; New Bandon’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for New Bandon.
Questions about flooding and hazards in New Bandon
How is New Bandon’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
New Bandon grades D for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does New Bandon flood?
There is flood mapping for New Bandon on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in New Bandon?
40% of the 115 homes Health Canada tested around New Bandon topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is New Bandon at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: New Bandon’s band is moderate, with 2.4% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2001), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in New Bandon?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in New Bandon $0.040 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).