Hazard risk in Creditview is lower than in 89% of Canadian towns
For Creditview, wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land since 1986, 0.000% a year. Seismic risk in Creditview sits near the middle: $0.030 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Radon is lower than usual: 0% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Creditview a grade of A, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Creditview’s hazards
For Creditview, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Creditview faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Creditview: A
For Creditview, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
Its place: #105 of 866 in Ontario and #417 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 Creditview: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Creditview’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
A burn rate of 0.000% a year keeps Creditview in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
Close to Creditview there is little to burn (0.3% forest fuel within 5 km), but 5.6% of the land within 25 km is forest.
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 Ontario · highest of 871
Among the 871 towns in Ontario, Sioux Lookout burns fastest (0.16% a year); Creditview is with the 638 near zero.
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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Creditview, burning rounds to zero.
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.
Flooding around Creditview is mapped in 3 studies, the newest by Credit Valley Conservation Authority
Flood studies whose area touches Creditview, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The newest of 3 studies covering Creditview is Credit Valley Conservation Authority’s, from 2006; open its map to see the zones.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huttonville Creek | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2006 | final · not public |
| Fletcher's Creek | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2005 | final · not public |
| Credit River headwater, Brampton | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2004 | final · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study puts Creditview with 69% of towns in Ontario; Canada’s share is 58%.
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 Creditview.
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.
Ordinary seismic risk in Creditview: $0.030 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Creditview’s $0.030 is the typical figure ($0.030): ordinary ground for Canada.
Creditview doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Brampton.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Ontario: Creditview’s $0.030 against a median of $0.043; Alexandria has $0.21.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Middle of the pack: 48% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more earthquake risk than Creditview.
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 Creditview.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Little radon around Creditview: 0% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Creditview’s survey area reads 0% over the guideline, under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Figures for radon tests are published for the Peel Regional Health Unit as a whole, not for Creditview alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs lower around Creditview than in most towns in Ontario: 0% against 4%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Few tests over the guideline: Creditview shares the bottom band with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, below the other 63%.
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 Creditview 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 Creditview
Alerts for Creditview 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 Creditview 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)
How Creditview’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creditview | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Mount Pleasant Village 19,719 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Spring Valley 12,564 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Mount Pleasant North 10,103 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Alloa 29,669 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Fletchers Creek Village / Lundy Village 13,934 · 2.8 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Fletchers Meadow South 9,214 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
Mount Pleasant Village (low) has the heaviest fire record of Creditview’s neighbours, and Creditview (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Creditview faces
Practical steps for Creditview’s hazards, most pressing first.
- 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Creditview’s included.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Creditview without grading them.
- 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 Creditview.
- 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 Creditview until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Creditview
How is Creditview’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Creditview grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Creditview?
Expected earthquake damage in Creditview comes to $0.030 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Creditview at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Creditview (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
Is radon a problem in Creditview?
0% of the 90 homes Health Canada tested around Creditview topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Does Creditview flood?
A flood study covers Creditview on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
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).