Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazard risk in Saint-Louis de Kent is higher than in 89% of Canadian towns
Fire seldom reaches Saint-Louis de Kent: since 1986, 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.006% a year). For earthquakes Saint-Louis de Kent is middling, $0.053 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon is higher than usual: 20% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Saint-Louis de Kent a grade of D, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Saint-Louis de Kent’s hazards
For Saint-Louis de Kent, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Saint-Louis de Kent faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Saint-Louis de Kent: D
Earthquake risk and radon make Saint-Louis de Kent’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Saint-Louis de Kent: 0.2% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Saint-Louis de Kent’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
With 0.006% burned a year, Saint-Louis de Kent is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
Saint-Louis de Kent’s homes have had no fire within 5 km since 1986; the closest was 14 km away.
Forest fuel is spread evenly around Saint-Louis de Kent: 82% within 5 km, 84% 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
Saint-Louis de Kent burns at 0.006% a year, 24th of 61 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, Saint-Louis de Kent 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 Saint-Louis de Kent, from Service New Brunswick - GeoNB: 1 on the inventory
Flood studies whose area touches Saint-Louis de Kent, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
For Saint-Louis de Kent 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
Saint-Louis de Kent 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.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Saint-Louis de Kent floods.
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 Saint-Louis de Kent: $0.053 per $1,000 of buildings 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 Saint-Louis de Kent, $0.053 per $1,000, are in line with the typical $0.030 (1.8 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in New Brunswick expects $0.036 a year; Saint-Louis de Kent expects $0.053, and St. Stephen $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.
Saint-Louis de Kent sits above most of Canada’s 2,611 towns on earthquake risk; 30% are higher.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Saint-Louis de Kent is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
20% of homes tested around Saint-Louis de Kent are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
At 20% over the guideline, the area around Saint-Louis de Kent beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Region 1 health region, Saint-Louis de Kent included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Ordinary for towns in New Brunswick at 20% over 200 Bq/m³ (20% is the median), the area around Saint-Louis de Kent had 3.7% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Saint-Louis de Kent is in the 10–20% band, with 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; only 4.6% are higher.
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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Saint-Louis de Kent’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Saint-Louis de Kent
Alerts for Saint-Louis de Kent 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 Saint-Louis de Kent 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 Saint-Louis de Kent’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Louis de Kent | Low | $0.053 | 20% | Yes |
| Saint-Louis 1,830 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.044 | 20% | Yes |
| Saint-Charles 2,189 · 3.9 km | Low | $0.048 | 20% | Yes |
| Richibucto 1,745 · 9.0 km | Low | $0.042 | 20% | Yes |
| Rexton 1,059 · 12 km | Low | $0.051 | 20% | Yes |
| Richibucto 15 2,126 · 16 km | Low | $0.042 | 20% | Yes |
| Richibucto 2,457 · 19 km | Low | $0.042 | 20% | Yes |
Richibucto burns a little more than Saint-Louis de Kent, in the same low band (low here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Saint-Louis de Kent faces
Practical steps for Saint-Louis de Kent’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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Saint-Louis de Kent.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Saint-Louis de Kent’s included.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Saint-Louis de Kent.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Saint-Louis de Kent takes its 2007 health region’s share.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Saint-Louis de Kent
Is radon a problem in Saint-Louis de Kent?
The area’s survey found 20% of 107 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Saint-Louis de Kent.
Is Saint-Louis de Kent at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Saint-Louis de Kent’s low band (0.2% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
How is Saint-Louis de Kent’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Saint-Louis de Kent grades D for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Saint-Louis de Kent?
Expected earthquake damage in Saint-Louis de Kent comes to $0.053 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Does Saint-Louis de Kent flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Saint-Louis de Kent; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
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).