Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainKings County, Subdivision C is on Canada’s flood inventory: 3 listed, led by Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, Saint Mary’s University
Burn scars are few around Kings County, Subdivision C, with 0.1% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.003% a year). For earthquakes Kings County, Subdivision C is middling, $0.020 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Kings County, Subdivision C is ordinary for Canada: 5.6% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Kings County, Subdivision C grades A− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Kings County, Subdivision C’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Kings County, Subdivision C: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Kings County, Subdivision C faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Kings County, Subdivision C grades A− for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Kings County, Subdivision C with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
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.
Little of the land around Kings County, Subdivision C has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0.1% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Kings County, Subdivision C’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
A burn rate of 0.003% a year keeps Kings County, Subdivision C in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
Forest thickens with distance from Kings County, Subdivision C: 56% of the land within 5 km, 63% 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 90
Barrington tops the 90 towns in Nova Scotia at 0.46% a year; Kings County, Subdivision C, at 0.003%, comes 55th.
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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Kings County, Subdivision C reads low, with 92% of them; only 7.5% rank 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.
Kings County, Subdivision C is on the flood map inventory: 3 studies, latest by Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, Saint Mary’s University
Flood studies whose area touches Kings County, Subdivision C, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
3 studies on the inventory touch Kings County, Subdivision C, the newest Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, Saint Mary’s University’s from 2018, and their areas can be large, so they say maps exist, not that the town floods.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundy Agricultural Marshlands Flood Maps | Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, Saint Mary’s University | 2018 | final · not public |
| East Kentville | Town of Kentville | 2014 | final |
| 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 Kings 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.
Flood mapping is shown for Kings County, Subdivision C 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 Kings County, Subdivision C $0.020 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.
Nothing unusual about Kings County, Subdivision C’s ground: $0.020 against a typical $0.030, 0.7 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in Nova Scotia: Kings 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.
Kings County, Subdivision C sits mid-range among Canada’s 2,611 towns: 64% expect more shaking damage.
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 loss is to Kings County, Subdivision C’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Some radon around Kings County, Subdivision C: 5.6% of area homes 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
Around Kings County, Subdivision C, 5.6% of tested homes topped the guideline, near the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Kings County, Subdivision C, 5.6% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³, under the median in Nova Scotia (13%); 2.8% were over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
26% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Kings County, Subdivision C’s 5–10% band, which holds 37%.
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 Kings 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 Kings County, Subdivision C
Alerts for Kings County, Subdivision C 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 Kings County, Subdivision C 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)
Hazards in the places around Kings County, Subdivision C
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings County, Subdivision C | Low | $0.020 | 5.6% | Yes |
| Kentville 7,589 · 2.8 km | Low | $0.017 | 5.6% | Yes |
| Kings County, Subdivision B 12,661 · 9.0 km | Low | $0.022 | 5.6% | Yes |
| Wolfville 5,587 · 11 km | Low | $0.016 | 5.6% | Yes |
| Kings County, Subdivision D 6,517 · 13 km | Low | $0.018 | 5.6% | Yes |
The fire record around Kentville is a touch heavier than Kings County, Subdivision C’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 Kings County, Subdivision C faces
What to do about the hazards Kings County, Subdivision C 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. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Kings County, Subdivision C without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Kings County, Subdivision C’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- 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 Kings County, Subdivision C until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Kings County, Subdivision C’s figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Kings County, Subdivision C
How is Kings County, Subdivision C’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Kings County, Subdivision C A−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Kings County, Subdivision C?
About $0.020 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Kings County, Subdivision C.
Does Kings County, Subdivision C flood?
A flood study covers Kings County, Subdivision C on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is radon a problem in Kings County, Subdivision C?
Around Kings County, Subdivision C, 107 survey homes were tested and 5.6% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Is Kings County, Subdivision C at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.1% of the land around Kings County, Subdivision C since 1986 (last in 2025); 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).