Hazard risk in Division No. 8, Subdivision H is lower than in 91% of Canadian towns
For Division No. 8, Subdivision H, wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land since 1986, 0.000% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.010 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Radon is about average around Division No. 8, Subdivision H: 5% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Division No. 8, Subdivision H grades A for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s hazards
For Division No. 8, Subdivision H, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Division No. 8, Subdivision H faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Division No. 8, Subdivision H grades A for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
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.
Wildfire is rare near Division No. 8, Subdivision H: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Division No. 8, Subdivision H, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
More forest grows near Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s homes (88% within 5 km) than across 25 km (82%).
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 33
Near-zero burning puts Division No. 8, Subdivision H with 8 of the 33 towns in Newfoundland and Labrador, far below Labrador City at 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Division No. 8, Subdivision H, burning 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Division No. 8, Subdivision H
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Division No. 8, Subdivision H: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Division No. 8, Subdivision H on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in Newfoundland and Labrador, 59% of towns against 58% nationally, but none in the inventory touches Division No. 8, Subdivision H.
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 Division No. 8, Subdivision H 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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Division No. 8, Subdivision H just $0.010 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.010 per $1,000, Division No. 8, Subdivision H carries 0.3 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s $0.010 is close to the median in Newfoundland and Labrador, $0.011; Holyrood is highest 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 86% of its 2,611 towns sit above Division No. 8, Subdivision H.
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. 8, Subdivision H.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
5% of homes tested around Division No. 8, Subdivision H are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Central Regional Integrated Health Authority
5% of tested homes around Division No. 8, Subdivision H were over the guideline, much like the typical Canadian town at 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Division No. 8, Subdivision H (5%) than in the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador (4%); 2% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s band of 5 to 10%; 26% sit 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.
Whatever Division No. 8, Subdivision H’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 Division No. 8, Subdivision H
Alerts for Division No. 8, Subdivision H 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. |
Evacuation orders for Division No. 8, Subdivision H come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Division No. 8, Subdivision H
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division No. 8, Subdivision H | Low | $0.010 | 5% | None listed |
| Twillingate 2,044 · 9.7 km | Low | $0.011 | 5% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Division No. 8, Subdivision H (low); Twillingate comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Division No. 8, Subdivision H faces
Practical steps for Division No. 8, Subdivision H’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. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Division No. 8, Subdivision H sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Division No. 8, Subdivision H, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Division No. 8, Subdivision H floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Division No. 8, Subdivision H
Is radon a problem in Division No. 8, Subdivision H?
5% of the 201 homes Health Canada tested around Division No. 8, Subdivision H topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is Division No. 8, Subdivision H at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Division No. 8, Subdivision H since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How is Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Division No. 8, Subdivision H grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Division No. 8, Subdivision H?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Division No. 8, Subdivision H’s buildings lose $0.010 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Division No. 8, Subdivision H flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Division No. 8, Subdivision H (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
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).