Few places are as safe from hazards as Ebenezer East: it beats 89% of Canadian towns
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Ebenezer East, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. For earthquakes Ebenezer East is middling, $0.030 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon is lower than usual: 0% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Ebenezer East grades A for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Ebenezer East’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Ebenezer East: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Ebenezer East faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Ebenezer East grades A for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Ebenezer East’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #105 of 866 in Ontario and #417 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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.
Wildfire is rare near Ebenezer East: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Ebenezer East’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.000% of the land around Ebenezer East each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
With 1.3% forest fuel within 5 km and 4.7% within 25 km, the land around Ebenezer East gives a fire little to burn.
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
Fire has taken almost none of the land around Ebenezer East, as for 638 of the 871 towns in Ontario; Sioux Lookout tops the list at 0.16%.
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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Ebenezer East is among the many where the yearly burn rate 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.
Ebenezer East is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Ebenezer East: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching Ebenezer East is Toronto Regional Conservation Authority’s, dated 2021; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Floodline Consolidation | Toronto Regional Conservation Authority | 2021 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Ebenezer East is one of the 69% of towns in Ontario 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 is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Ebenezer East’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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 Ebenezer East: $0.030 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Ebenezer East’s $0.030 is the typical figure ($0.030): ordinary ground for Canada.
Ebenezer East 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
Ebenezer East’s $0.030 sits under the median in Ontario, $0.043, and well under Alexandria’s $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.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Ebenezer East (48%).
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 Ebenezer East’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).
0% of homes tested around Ebenezer East are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Ebenezer East’s survey area reads 0% over the guideline, under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Against the typical town in Ontario (4%), the area around Ebenezer East has fewer high tests: 0%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Few tests over the guideline: Ebenezer East 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 survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Ebenezer East 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). · Radon tests: one figure for all of the Peel Regional Health Unit
Weather and fire alerts for Ebenezer East
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Ebenezer East; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Ebenezer East come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Ebenezer East’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ebenezer East | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Rivers Edge / Castlemore Crossing 6,577 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Ebenezer West 11,510 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Valley Creek 11,986 · 3.0 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Woodbridge Meadows 3,651 · 3.8 km | Low | $0.028 | 0% | Yes |
| Castlemore Estates 2,587 · 3.9 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| The Estates of Rainbow Creek 6,822 · 4.0 km | Low | $0.028 | 0% | Yes |
Ebenezer East’s low band tops its neighbours; Rivers Edge / Castlemore Crossing is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Ebenezer East faces
Practical steps for Ebenezer East’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. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Ebenezer East’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- 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 Ebenezer East.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Ebenezer East’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 Ebenezer East is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Ebenezer East
Is radon a problem in Ebenezer East?
The area’s survey found 0% of 90 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Ebenezer East.
Is Ebenezer East at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Ebenezer East (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
How is Ebenezer East’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Ebenezer East A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Ebenezer East flood?
There is flood mapping for Ebenezer East on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
How big is the earthquake risk in Ebenezer East?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Ebenezer East $0.030 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).