Photo: WikiPedant · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places are as safe from hazards as Division No. 1, Subdivision E: it beats 89% of Canadian towns
Little of the land around Division No. 1, Subdivision E has burned: 0.5% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.01% a year. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.014 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Division No. 1, Subdivision E grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s hazards
For Division No. 1, Subdivision E, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Division No. 1, Subdivision E faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Division No. 1, Subdivision E grades A for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for Division No. 1, Subdivision E, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #21 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #470 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.
Few fires near Division No. 1, Subdivision E: 0% within 5 km, 0.5% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The yearly burn rate around Division No. 1, Subdivision E is 0.01%, low beside 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s homes came within 5.8 km, never inside 5 km.
More forest grows near Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s homes (93% within 5 km) than across 25 km (80%).
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 Newfoundland and Labrador · highest of 32
Some fire is mapped around Division No. 1, Subdivision E (0.01% a year), but it ranks only 20th of 32 towns in Newfoundland and Labrador; Labrador City has 0.43%.
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, Division No. 1, Subdivision E 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 Division No. 1, Subdivision E, from Department of Environment and Climate Change: 1 on the inventory
Flood studies whose area touches Division No. 1, Subdivision E, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
One study on the inventory touches Division No. 1, Subdivision E, Department of Environment and Climate Change’s from 2024, and its area can be large, so it says a map exists, not that the town floods.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flood Hazard Mapping for Ferryland, Brigus, Heart’s Delight-Islington, Hant’s Harbour, and Winterton | Department of Environment and Climate Change | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Division No. 1, Subdivision E is one of the 59% of towns in Newfoundland and Labrador 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.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Division No. 1, Subdivision E’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.
Little shaking expected in Division No. 1, Subdivision E: $0.014 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
0.5 times the typical $0.030: Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s $0.014 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.014, Division No. 1, Subdivision E is above the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador ($0.011); Holyrood has the most at $0.015.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Earthquakes cost less around Division No. 1, Subdivision E than in 73% of Canada’s 2,611 towns.
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Division No. 1, Subdivision E.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
4% of homes tested around Division No. 1, Subdivision E are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Measured across the Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority: radon tests
At 4% over the guideline, the area around Division No. 1, Subdivision E is under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador has 4% over 200 Bq/m³; Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s area has 4%, much the same.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Radon rarely tops the guideline around Division No. 1, Subdivision E, as for 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 63% see more.
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.
Neighbouring homes in Division No. 1, Subdivision E can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Division No. 1, Subdivision E
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Division No. 1, Subdivision E; 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. |
For fires near Division No. 1, Subdivision E, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Division No. 1, Subdivision E
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division No. 1, Subdivision E | Low | $0.014 | 4% | Yes |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision Y 1,374 · 14 km | Low | $0.014 | 4% | None listed |
Nowhere around Division No. 1, Subdivision E burns more: Division No. 1, Subdivision Y, 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 Division No. 1, Subdivision E faces
What to do about the hazards Division No. 1, Subdivision E faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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
- 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 Division No. 1, Subdivision E until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Division No. 1, Subdivision E without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Division No. 1, Subdivision E, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Division No. 1, Subdivision E
Does Division No. 1, Subdivision E flood?
1, Subdivision E 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 Division No. 1, Subdivision E?
About $0.014 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Division No. 1, Subdivision E.
Is Division No. 1, Subdivision E at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.5% of the land around Division No. 1, Subdivision E since 1986 (last in 2025); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Is radon a problem in Division No. 1, Subdivision E?
Around Division No. 1, Subdivision E, 100 survey homes were tested and 4% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Division No. 1, Subdivision E’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
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).