Photo: Sara Star NS from Halifax, NS, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Flood mapping exists for Clayton Park West: 1 on record, latest by Halifax Regional Municipality
Little of the land around Clayton Park West has burned: 1.9% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.05% a year. Earthquake risk in Clayton Park West is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.018 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. More homes than usual carry radon here, 13% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Clayton Park West grades B− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Clayton Park West’s hazards
For Clayton Park West, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Clayton Park West faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Clayton Park West: B−
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Clayton Park West with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #47 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,724 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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.
Few fires near Clayton Park West: 0.3% within 5 km, 1.9% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Clayton Park West’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
With 0.05% burned a year, Clayton Park West is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
Within 5 km of Clayton Park West, 37% of the land is forest fuel; widen the ring to 25 km and it is 73%.
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
At 0.05% a year, Clayton Park West ranks 28th of the 90 towns in Nova Scotia; 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.
Clayton Park West 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.
Clayton Park West is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Halifax Regional Municipality
Flood studies whose area touches Clayton Park West, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Halifax Regional Municipality holds the flood mapping that covers Clayton Park West (2024), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creation of Coastal, Pluvial, Fluvial Flood Hazard Maps for Halifax Regional Municipality | Halifax Regional Municipality | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Clayton Park West is one of the 88% of towns in Nova Scotia with a flood study on file; across Canada it is 58%.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping is shown for Clayton Park West to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Clayton Park West $0.018 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Clayton Park West’s $0.018 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (0.6 times as much).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in Nova Scotia: Clayton Park West’s $0.018 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.
Earthquakes cost less around Clayton Park West than in 68% of Canada’s 2,611 towns.
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 Clayton Park West 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). · Not measured by town: earthquake risk (the city of Halifax)
Radon runs high around Clayton Park West: 13% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Measured across the Zone 6 health region: radon tests
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Clayton Park West’s area, at 13%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Clayton Park West, 13% of tests topped the guideline, close to the typical town in Nova Scotia (13%); 1% were over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Clayton Park West sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% above.
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 Clayton Park West 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).
Where to get warnings in Clayton Park West
Alerts for Clayton Park West 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 Clayton Park West to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Clayton Park West
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton Park West | Low | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Mount Royale 9,340 · 2.9 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Fairview 16,296 · 3.2 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Windsor Park 13,044 · 4.6 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Bedford 28,848 · 5.0 km | Low | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Westmount 23,207 · 5.6 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Timberlea 11,014 · 5.6 km | Low | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
Next door, Westmount sits in a moderate fire band; Clayton Park West is low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Clayton Park West faces
What to do about the hazards Clayton Park West 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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Clayton Park West sits in.
- 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 Clayton Park West floods.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Clayton Park West’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Clayton Park West, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Clayton Park West
How is Clayton Park West’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Clayton Park West’s Hazard risk grade is B−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Clayton Park West?
In Health Canada’s survey, 13% of 101 homes tested in Clayton Park West’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Clayton Park West flood?
Clayton Park West’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
Is Clayton Park West at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 1.9% of the land within 25 km of Clayton Park West has burned since 1986, the last in 2025, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
How big is the earthquake risk in Clayton Park West?
Expected earthquake damage in Clayton Park West comes to $0.018 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).