Ebenezer West faces fewer hazards than 89% of Canadian towns
The national fire record shows next to nothing around Ebenezer West, 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). NRCan expects $0.030 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Ebenezer West, near the typical $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 Ebenezer West a grade of A, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Ebenezer West’s hazards
For Ebenezer West, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Ebenezer West faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Ebenezer West: A
Earthquake risk and radon make Ebenezer West’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Ebenezer West has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Ebenezer West’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
With 0.000% burned a year, Ebenezer West is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
Around Ebenezer West the forest is thin or far off: 1.4% of the land within 5 km and 3.9% within 25 km is forest fuel.
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
Sioux Lookout has the highest burn rate in Ontario, 0.16% a year; around Ebenezer West, as around 638 of the 871 towns, it rounds to 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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, Ebenezer West is in the largest group, low (92%), and at its floor, while 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.
Toronto Regional Conservation Authority has mapped flooding for Ebenezer West (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Ebenezer West: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Toronto Regional Conservation Authority studied flooding in an area that includes Ebenezer West (2021); open its map to see which streets lie in a flood zone.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Floodline Consolidation | Toronto Regional Conservation Authority | 2021 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study puts Ebenezer West 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.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Ebenezer West 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.
Ordinary seismic risk in Ebenezer West: $0.030 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.030 per $1,000, Ebenezer West’s earthquake risk is the typical Canadian town’s $0.030.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Ebenezer West’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.
Middle of the pack: 48% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more earthquake risk than Ebenezer West.
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 Ebenezer West.
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 Brampton
Radon runs low around Ebenezer West: 0% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Ebenezer West’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 Ebenezer West alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Against the typical town in Ontario (4%), the area around Ebenezer West has fewer high tests: 0%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
63% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Ebenezer West’s 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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Ebenezer West’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Ebenezer West
Alerts for Ebenezer West 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 Ebenezer West to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Ebenezer West’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 West | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Rivers Edge / Castlemore Crossing 6,577 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Ebenezer East 27,031 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Valley Creek 11,986 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Woodhill 6,386 · 3.1 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| The Estates of Rainbow Creek 6,822 · 4.5 km | Low | $0.028 | 0% | Yes |
| Castlemore Estates 2,587 · 4.6 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
Nowhere around Ebenezer West burns more: Rivers Edge / Castlemore Crossing, the closest rival, is low to its low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Ebenezer West faces
Practical steps for Ebenezer West’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
- Wildfire counts one way. For Ebenezer West, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Ebenezer West’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’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 West.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Ebenezer West is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Ebenezer West
How is Ebenezer West’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Ebenezer West A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Ebenezer West flood?
There is flood mapping for Ebenezer West on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Ebenezer West?
0% of the 90 homes Health Canada tested around Ebenezer West topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How big is the earthquake risk in Ebenezer West?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Ebenezer West $0.030 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is Ebenezer West at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Ebenezer West since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
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).