Photo: Properpostman · CC BY-SA 4.0Flood mapping exists for Manor Park: 1 on record, latest by Halifax Regional Municipality
Fire reaches the land around Manor Park now and then: 2.6% within 25 km since 1986 (0.07% a year), below the high band. Earthquake risk in Manor Park 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%. Hazard risk gives Manor Park a grade of B−; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Manor Park’s hazards
For Manor Park, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Manor Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Manor Park: B−
Seismic risk and radon set Manor Park’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #47 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,724 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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.
A moderate wildfire record for Manor Park: 2.6% within 25 km burned, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Manor Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.07% of the land a year, Manor Park’s burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
The 5 km ring around Manor Park’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 5.3 km out.
Within 5 km of Manor Park, 22% of the land is forest fuel; widen the ring to 25 km and it is 71%.
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
Manor Park ranks 7th of the 90 towns in Nova Scotia for burn rate, at 0.07% a year; Barrington leads with 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 Manor Park 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.
Manor Park is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Halifax Regional Municipality
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Manor Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
One study on the inventory touches Manor Park, Halifax Regional Municipality’s from 2024, and its area can be large, so it says a map exists, not that the town floods.
| 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
Flood maps are common in Nova Scotia: 88% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Manor Park is among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Manor Park’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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Manor Park $0.018 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.6 times the typical $0.030: Manor Park’s $0.018 is ordinary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Manor Park ($0.018) matches the middle in Nova Scotia ($0.018), far from Clare’s $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.
Manor Park is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 68% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 Manor Park.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Halifax
Radon runs high around Manor Park: 13% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Zone 6 health region
At 13% over the guideline, the area around Manor Park beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
1% of tests around Manor Park passed 600 Bq/m³; over 200, its 13% matches the median in Nova Scotia, 13%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Manor Park 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.
A low area share in Manor Park doesn’t clear a house, nor does a high one condemn it: test.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Manor Park
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Manor Park; 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 Manor Park, 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)
Hazards in the places around Manor Park
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manor Park | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Austinville 28,021 · 2.6 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Portland Estates 10,164 · 2.6 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Woodlawn 20,925 · 2.7 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Schmidtville 18,105 · 3.7 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| North End 19,733 · 3.7 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
| Windsor Park 13,044 · 5.0 km | Moderate | $0.018 | 13% | Yes |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Manor Park (moderate); Schmidtville comes closest (moderate).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Manor Park faces
Practical steps for Manor Park’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
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Manor Park’s included.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Manor Park takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Manor Park.
- 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 Manor Park.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Manor Park
Does Manor Park flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Manor Park; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Manor Park?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Manor Park $0.018 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is Manor Park at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Manor Park’s band is moderate, with 2.6% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2025), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How is Manor Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Manor Park B−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is radon a problem in Manor Park?
13% of the 101 homes Health Canada tested around Manor Park topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).