Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainDivision No. 7, Subdivision E faces fewer hazards than 91% of Canadian towns
Wildfire is rare near Division No. 7, Subdivision E: 1.1% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.03% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.012 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. In Health Canada’s survey, just 4% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Division No. 7, Subdivision E grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Division No. 7, Subdivision E’s hazards
For Division No. 7, 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. 7, 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. 7, Subdivision E grades A for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Division No. 7, Subdivision E with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #15 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #344 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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 Division No. 7, Subdivision E: 1.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 1.7% within 5 km
Past fire around Division No. 7, Subdivision E’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The yearly burn rate around Division No. 7, Subdivision E is 0.03%, low beside 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
The ring nearest Division No. 7, Subdivision E is the most wooded: 86% forest fuel within 5 km against 78% 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 Newfoundland and Labrador · highest of 32
In the upper half in Newfoundland and Labrador but far from Labrador City (0.43%): Division No. 7, Subdivision E ranks 12th of 32, at 0.03% a year.
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.
Some fire is mapped around Division No. 7, Subdivision E, but not enough to leave the low band, where 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are; 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.
No flood study is listed for Division No. 7, Subdivision E
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Division No. 7, Subdivision E: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
An empty entry for Division No. 7, Subdivision E on the inventory isn’t proof of safety; ask locally for flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Newfoundland and Labrador reaches 59% of towns, beside 58% across Canada, but not Division No. 7, Subdivision E.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Division No. 7, Subdivision E.
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.”
Little shaking expected in Division No. 7, Subdivision E: $0.012 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.4 times the typical $0.030: Division No. 7, Subdivision E’s $0.012 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Division No. 7, Subdivision E runs at $0.012 a year, near the $0.011 of the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador; Holyrood has $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.
84% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Division No. 7, Subdivision E.
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 Division No. 7, Subdivision E 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).
Radon runs low around Division No. 7, Subdivision E: 4% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
At 4% over the guideline, the area around Division No. 7, Subdivision E is under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Division No. 7, Subdivision E doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon around Division No. 7, Subdivision E is ordinary for towns in Newfoundland and Labrador: 4%, beside a median of 4%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Division No. 7, Subdivision E is in the lowest band, with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns: under 5% of tests over the guideline, while 63% have 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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Division No. 7, Subdivision E’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Division No. 7, Subdivision E
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Division No. 7, 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Division No. 7, Subdivision E, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Division No. 7, Subdivision E’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division No. 7, Subdivision E | Low | $0.012 | 4% | None listed |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision K 1,116 · 19 km | Low | $0.009 | 4% | None listed |
Division No. 7, Subdivision E’s low band tops its neighbours; Division No. 7, Subdivision K is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Division No. 7, Subdivision E faces
What to do about the hazards Division No. 7, 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- 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 Division No. 7, Subdivision E.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Division No. 7, 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.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Division No. 7, Subdivision E takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Division No. 7, Subdivision E’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Division No. 7, Subdivision E
How is Division No. 7, Subdivision E’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Division No. 7, Subdivision E grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Division No. 7, Subdivision E at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 1.1% of the land around Division No. 7, Subdivision E since 1986 (last in 2025); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Division No. 7, Subdivision E?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Division No. 7, Subdivision E $0.012 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Division No. 7, Subdivision E flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Division No. 7, Subdivision E’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
Is radon a problem in Division No. 7, Subdivision E?
Around Division No. 7, 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.
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).