Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Few places are as safe from hazards as Glovertown: it beats 91% of Canadian towns
Wildfire is rare near Glovertown: 0.4% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.01% a year. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.010 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). About as many homes carry radon around Glovertown as elsewhere, 5% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Glovertown a grade of A; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Glovertown’s hazards
For Glovertown, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Glovertown faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Glovertown: A
For Glovertown, 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.
Wildfire is rare near Glovertown: 0.4% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Glovertown’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Around Glovertown fire takes 0.01% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Nothing inside 5 km of Glovertown’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 7.9 km off.
The ring nearest Glovertown is the most wooded: 89% forest fuel within 5 km against 81% 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 33
In the lower half in Newfoundland and Labrador: Glovertown at 0.01% a year, 22nd of 33, far from Labrador City’s 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.
7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns burn fast enough to rank moderate or above; Glovertown stays low, with 92%.
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 Glovertown
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Glovertown: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Nationally, Glovertown has no listed flood study; the municipality is the place to ask.
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 Glovertown.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Glovertown.
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 Glovertown 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, Glovertown carries 0.3 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Glovertown at $0.010 beside a median in Newfoundland and Labrador of $0.011, with Holyrood on top 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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (86%) face more earthquake damage than Glovertown.
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 Glovertown.
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 Glovertown are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Around Glovertown, 5% of tested homes topped the guideline, near the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Glovertown, 5% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 2% over 600, against a median of 4% in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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 Glovertown’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.
Neighbouring homes in Glovertown 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). · Not measured by town: radon tests (the Central Regional Integrated Health Authority)
Where to get warnings in Glovertown
Alerts for Glovertown 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Glovertown to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Glovertown’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glovertown | Low | $0.010 | 5% | None listed |
| Gambo 1,859 · 15 km | Low | $0.008 | 5% | None listed |
The fire record around Gambo is a touch heavier than Glovertown’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Glovertown faces
Practical steps for Glovertown’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
- Wildfire counts one way. For Glovertown, 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. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Glovertown until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Glovertown without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Glovertown’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Glovertown
How big is the earthquake risk in Glovertown?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Glovertown $0.010 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is Glovertown at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Glovertown’s band is low, with 0.4% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2016), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in Glovertown?
5% of the 201 homes Health Canada tested around Glovertown topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Does Glovertown flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Glovertown (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How is Glovertown’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Glovertown’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).