Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainA flood study covers Annapolis County, Subdivision C: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from Province of Nova Scotia
Wildfire is a moderate presence around Annapolis County, Subdivision C: 2.3% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.06% a year, short of the band that counts against Risk. Earthquake risk in Annapolis County, Subdivision C is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.020 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Radon around Annapolis County, Subdivision C is ordinary for Canada: 5.6% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Annapolis County, Subdivision C a grade of A−; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Annapolis County, Subdivision C: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Annapolis County, Subdivision C faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Annapolis County, Subdivision C grades A− for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
Its place: #20 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #666 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Some fire around Annapolis County, Subdivision C: 2.3% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The yearly burn rate around Annapolis County, Subdivision C is 0.06%, above 0.000% for the typical Canadian town but under the high band.
The nearer ring around Annapolis County, Subdivision C is less wooded (50% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (65%).
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 Nova Scotia · highest of 90
In the top quarter in Nova Scotia: Annapolis County, Subdivision C ranks 22nd of 90 at 0.06% a year, with Barrington first at 0.46%.
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.
Moderate puts Annapolis County, Subdivision C above most of Canada’s 2,610 towns, yet 2.1% rank high or very high and 5.4% share its band.
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.
Annapolis County, Subdivision C is on the flood map inventory: 2 studies, latest by Province of Nova Scotia
Flood studies whose area touches Annapolis County, Subdivision C, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
For Annapolis County, Subdivision C the inventory points to 2 studies, most recently Province of Nova Scotia’s in 2024.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Scotia Flood Mapping Minas Basin Area | Province of Nova Scotia | 2024 | final · not public |
| Kings County | Municipality of the County of Kings | 2012 | final · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in Nova Scotia: 88% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Annapolis County, Subdivision C is among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
No single decade dominates: 2 studies for Annapolis County, Subdivision C between the 2010s and the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Annapolis County, Subdivision C.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Annapolis County, Subdivision C’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.
Ordinary seismic risk in Annapolis County, Subdivision C: $0.020 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
0.7 times the typical $0.030: Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s $0.020 is ordinary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in Nova Scotia: Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s $0.020 against $0.018; Clare reaches $0.034.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Annapolis County, Subdivision C (64%).
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon about average around Annapolis County, Subdivision C: 5.6% over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Zone 2 health region
The survey area of Annapolis County, Subdivision C reads 5.6%, a shade from the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Below the typical town in Nova Scotia (13%) at 5.6%, the area around Annapolis County, Subdivision C still had 2.8% of tests over 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Annapolis County, Subdivision C, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% are 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Annapolis County, Subdivision C can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Annapolis County, Subdivision C
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Annapolis County, Subdivision C; 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 Annapolis County, Subdivision C, 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)
How Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Annapolis County, Subdivision C (moderate); Middleton comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Annapolis County, Subdivision C faces
Practical steps for Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s hazards, most pressing first.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- 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.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Annapolis County, Subdivision C 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 Annapolis County, Subdivision C until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Annapolis County, Subdivision C
Is Annapolis County, Subdivision C at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s moderate band (2.3% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
Is radon a problem in Annapolis County, Subdivision C?
The area’s survey found 5.6% of 107 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Annapolis County, Subdivision C.
Does Annapolis County, Subdivision C flood?
A flood study covers Annapolis County, Subdivision C 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 Annapolis County, Subdivision C?
About $0.020 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Annapolis County, Subdivision C.
How is Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Annapolis County, Subdivision C’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).