Photo: ProjectHorizons · CC BY-SA 4.0Flood mapping exists for Indian Brook 14: 1 on record, latest by Province of Nova Scotia
Wildfire is rare near Indian Brook 14: 0.3% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.007% a year. NRCan expects $0.023 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Indian Brook 14, near the typical $0.030. Radon is higher than usual: 13% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Indian Brook 14 grades C+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Indian Brook 14’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Indian Brook 14: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Indian Brook 14 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Indian Brook 14: C+
The grade weighs Indian Brook 14’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Little of the land around Indian Brook 14 has burned: 1.3% within 5 km, 0.3% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Indian Brook 14’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Indian Brook 14 burns at 0.007% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
There is forest near Indian Brook 14’s homes (69% within 5 km) and more of it further out (80% 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 Nova Scotia · highest of 91
In the upper half in Nova Scotia but far from Barrington (0.46%): Indian Brook 14 ranks 46th of 91, at 0.007% a year.
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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Indian Brook 14 burns, but slower than in the 7.5% above it.
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.
Indian Brook 14 is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Province of Nova Scotia
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Indian Brook 14: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For Indian Brook 14 the inventory points to Province of Nova Scotia’s 2024 study, whose map is the one to check.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Scotia Flood Mapping Minas Basin Area | Province of Nova Scotia | 2024 | 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 Indian Brook 14 is among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Indian Brook 14 floods.
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.
Expected shaking damage in Indian Brook 14: $0.023 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.023 per $1,000, Indian Brook 14’s earthquake risk is about the typical Canadian town’s ($0.030; 0.8 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Above the middle in Nova Scotia: Indian Brook 14’s $0.023 against a median of $0.018, with Clare highest at $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 Indian Brook 14 (54%).
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).
The model counts damage to Indian Brook 14’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon runs high around Indian Brook 14: 13% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Radon tests for the Zone 3 health region
A higher share than most: 13% of tested homes around Indian Brook 14, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Ordinary for towns in Nova Scotia at 13% over 200 Bq/m³ (13% is the median), the area around Indian Brook 14 had 3.1% 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: Indian Brook 14 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.
The share describes the area, not a house: in Indian Brook 14 as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Indian Brook 14
Alerts for Indian Brook 14 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 Indian Brook 14 to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Indian Brook 14’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
The fire record around Enfield is a touch heavier than Indian Brook 14’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 Indian Brook 14 faces
What to do about the hazards Indian Brook 14 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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Indian Brook 14.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Indian Brook 14’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Indian Brook 14’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Indian Brook 14 is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Indian Brook 14
How is Indian Brook 14’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Indian Brook 14’s Hazard risk grade is C+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Indian Brook 14 at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.3% of the land within 25 km of Indian Brook 14 has burned since 1986, the last in 2025, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
Does Indian Brook 14 flood?
There is flood mapping for Indian Brook 14 on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Indian Brook 14?
In Health Canada’s survey, 13% of 96 homes tested in Indian Brook 14’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Indian Brook 14?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Indian Brook 14 $0.023 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).