Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainRadon is Starlight Village’s main hazard: 17% of tested homes in its area top Health Canada’s guideline
No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of Starlight Village’s homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 0.000% a year). For earthquakes Starlight Village is middling, $0.036 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Starlight Village a grade of C, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Starlight Village’s hazards
For Starlight Village, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Starlight Village faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Starlight Village grades C for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Starlight Village’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #17 of 60 in New Brunswick and #2,249 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.
Little of the land around Starlight Village has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Starlight Village’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Fire claims 0.000% of the land around Starlight Village each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
The closest burn since 1986 lies 19 km from Starlight Village’s homes, none within 5 km.
80% of the land within 5 km of Starlight Village is forest fuel, close to the 77% 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 60
Little or nothing burns around Starlight Village 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Starlight Village is among the many where the yearly burn rate rounds to zero.
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 Starlight Village, from Service New Brunswick - GeoNB: 1 on the inventory
Flood studies whose area touches Starlight Village, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The flood study touching Starlight Village is Service New Brunswick - GeoNB’s, dated 2020; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| 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
Flood maps are common in New Brunswick: 93% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Starlight Village is among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Starlight Village’s homes are at risk.
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 Starlight Village $0.036 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.
Nothing unusual about Starlight Village’s ground: $0.036 against a typical $0.030, 1.2 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Starlight Village ($0.036) matches the middle in New Brunswick ($0.036), far from St. Stephen’s $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 Starlight Village (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).
For Starlight Village the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
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 Starlight Village: 17% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
At 17% over the guideline, the area around Starlight Village beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Region 3 health region, Starlight Village included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Starlight Village, 17% of tests topped the guideline, close to the typical town in New Brunswick (20%); 7.1% were over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
One test in ten or more tops the guideline around Starlight Village, as in 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 4.6% go 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.
A low area share in Starlight Village doesn’t clear a house, nor does a high one condemn it: test.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Starlight Village
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Starlight Village; Alert Ready carries the urgent ones to phones, radio and TV.
| 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Starlight Village, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Starlight Village
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starlight Village | Low | $0.036 | 17% | Yes |
| New Maryland 4,455 · 5.3 km | Low | $0.043 | 17% | None listed |
| New Maryland 3,198 · 7.1 km | Moderate | $0.046 | 17% | None listed |
| Kingsclear 3,158 · 10.0 km | Low | $0.034 | 17% | Yes |
| Fredericton 74,655 · 11 km | Moderate | $0.039 | 17% | Yes |
| Lincoln 8,093 · 13 km | Moderate | $0.048 | 17% | Yes |
| Devon 30 1,105 · 14 km | Low | $0.030 | 17% | Yes |
The heaviest fire record nearby is Lincoln’s, moderate to Starlight Village’s low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Starlight Village faces
Practical steps for Starlight Village’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. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Starlight Village’s included.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Starlight Village without grading them.
- 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 Starlight Village until then.
- 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 Starlight Village.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Starlight Village
Does Starlight Village flood?
A flood study covers Starlight Village on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is radon a problem in Starlight Village?
The area’s survey found 17% of 112 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Starlight Village.
How is Starlight Village’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Starlight Village grades C for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Starlight Village?
About $0.036 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Starlight Village.
Is Starlight Village at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Starlight Village’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
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).