Eskasoni 3’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 14% of area homes over the radon guideline
Fire seldom reaches Eskasoni 3: since 1986, 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.005% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Hazard risk gives Eskasoni 3 a grade of B−; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Eskasoni 3’s hazards
For Eskasoni 3, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Eskasoni 3 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Eskasoni 3 grades B− for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Eskasoni 3 with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
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 Eskasoni 3: 0.2% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Eskasoni 3’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The land within 25 km of Eskasoni 3 burns at 0.005% a year on average, the low band; the typical Canadian town: 0.000%.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Eskasoni 3’s homes came within 16 km, never inside 5 km.
The nearer ring around Eskasoni 3 is less wooded (69% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (81%).
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 91
Eskasoni 3 ranks 49th of the 91 towns in Nova Scotia for burn rate (0.005% a year), in the lower half; Barrington leads 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.
Eskasoni 3 is in the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 7.5% sit in moderate or 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 Eskasoni 3
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Eskasoni 3: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Eskasoni 3, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Nova Scotia reaches 88% of towns, beside 58% across Canada, but not Eskasoni 3.
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 Eskasoni 3.
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 Eskasoni 3: $0.013 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.4 times the typical $0.030: Eskasoni 3’s $0.013 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Nova Scotia expects $0.018 a year in shaking damage; Eskasoni 3 expects less, $0.013, and Clare the most, $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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (75%) face more earthquake damage than Eskasoni 3.
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).
For Eskasoni 3 the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
14% of homes tested around Eskasoni 3 are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Eskasoni 3’s area, at 14%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Ordinary for towns in Nova Scotia at 14% over 200 Bq/m³ (13% is the median), the area around Eskasoni 3 had 6.5% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
One test in ten or more tops the guideline around Eskasoni 3, as in 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 4.6% go 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 Eskasoni 3 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). · Radon tests: one figure for all of the Zone 5 health region
Where to get warnings in Eskasoni 3
Alerts for Eskasoni 3 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 Eskasoni 3 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)
Get ready for what Eskasoni 3 faces
What to do about the hazards Eskasoni 3 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 Eskasoni 3.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Eskasoni 3 takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Eskasoni 3, 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 Eskasoni 3’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Eskasoni 3
How is Eskasoni 3’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Eskasoni 3 grades B− for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Eskasoni 3 flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Eskasoni 3’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How big is the earthquake risk in Eskasoni 3?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Eskasoni 3 $0.013 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is radon a problem in Eskasoni 3?
Around Eskasoni 3, 92 survey homes were tested and 14% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Is Eskasoni 3 at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.2% of the land around Eskasoni 3 since 1986 (last in 2020); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
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).