Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainOn hazards, Wilmot comes out behind 87% of Canadian towns
The national fire record shows next to nothing around Wilmot, 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). Shaking is a bigger worry than in most places, at $0.062 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon is higher than usual: 17% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Wilmot a grade of D, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Wilmot’s hazards
For Wilmot, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Wilmot faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Wilmot: D
For Wilmot, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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 Wilmot has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Wilmot’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around Wilmot burns at 0.000% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Near or far, forest fuel covers a similar share around Wilmot: 50% within 5 km and 50% 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
Little or nothing burns around Wilmot in a typical year; 16 of the 61 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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, Wilmot is in the largest group, low (92%), and at its floor, while 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Wilmot
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Wilmot: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Wilmot, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in New Brunswick, 93% of towns against 58% nationally, but none in the inventory touches Wilmot.
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 Wilmot’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.”
Shaking is Wilmot’s costliest hazard: $0.062 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Wilmot’s $0.062 is about 2.1 times the typical town’s $0.030: it sits in one of Canada’s more active seismic zones.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Wilmot’s $0.062 tops the median in New Brunswick, $0.036, though 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.
In the upper part of Canada’s range: 29% of its 2,611 towns expect more damage than Wilmot.
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 Wilmot 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).
Test for radon in Wilmot: 17% of area homes were over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
A higher share than most: 17% of tested homes around Wilmot, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Region 3 health region, with Wilmot one part of it.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Wilmot’s area, at 17%, is close to the median in New Brunswick (20%); 7.1% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Wilmot sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% 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.
Whatever Wilmot’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Wilmot
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Wilmot; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Wilmot come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Wilmot
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmot | Low | $0.062 | 17% | None listed |
| Wakefield 2,749 · 11 km | Low | $0.045 | 17% | None listed |
| Florenceville-Bristol 1,583 · 11 km | Low | $0.042 | 17% | None listed |
| Hartland 1,025 · 13 km | Low | $0.032 | 17% | None listed |
| Peel 1,176 · 14 km | Low | $0.040 | 17% | None listed |
| Wicklow 1,558 · 14 km | Low | $0.043 | 17% | None listed |
| Brighton 1,635 · 19 km | Low | $0.043 | 17% | None listed |
Nowhere around Wilmot burns more: Wakefield, the closest rival, is low to its low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Wilmot faces
Practical steps for Wilmot’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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- 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, Wilmot’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 Wilmot.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Wilmot 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 Wilmot until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Wilmot
How is Wilmot’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Wilmot grades D for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Wilmot?
17% of the 112 homes Health Canada tested around Wilmot topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How big is the earthquake risk in Wilmot?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Wilmot’s buildings lose $0.062 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Wilmot flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Wilmot (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is Wilmot at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Wilmot (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
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).