Hazard risk in G-Section (bramalea) is lower than in 89% of Canadian towns
Wildfire barely registers for G-Section (bramalea), at 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). Shaking is about as much of a worry in G-Section (bramalea) as in most places, at $0.030 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). 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 G-Section (bramalea) a grade of A, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about G-Section (bramalea)’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for G-Section (bramalea): earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What G-Section (bramalea) faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
G-Section (bramalea) grades A for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for G-Section (bramalea), earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
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 G-Section (bramalea): 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where G-Section (bramalea)’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around G-Section (bramalea), 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around G-Section (bramalea): forest fuel is 0.7% within 5 km and 3.9% 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 Ontario · highest of 871
Among the 871 towns in Ontario, Sioux Lookout burns fastest (0.16% a year); G-Section (bramalea) 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; G-Section (bramalea) 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.
G-Section (bramalea) is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority
Flood studies whose area touches G-Section (bramalea), from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Toronto Regional Conservation Authority holds the flood mapping that covers G-Section (bramalea) (2021), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Floodline Consolidation | Toronto Regional Conservation Authority | 2021 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
G-Section (bramalea) 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 studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for G-Section (bramalea).
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 G-Section (bramalea): $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.
G-Section (bramalea)’s $0.030 is the typical figure ($0.030): ordinary ground for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Ontario: G-Section (bramalea)’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.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than G-Section (bramalea) (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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in G-Section (bramalea)’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Area behind the earthquake risk figures: the city of Brampton
0% of homes tested around G-Section (bramalea) are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
G-Section (bramalea)’s area, at 0%, is below the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, though any one home can still be high. G-Section (bramalea) doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Peel Regional Health Unit.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around G-Section (bramalea) (0%) than in the typical town in Ontario (4%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
The quietest radon band, under 5%, holds 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns and G-Section (bramalea); 63% sit higher.
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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in G-Section (bramalea) only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for G-Section (bramalea)
Alerts for G-Section (bramalea) 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near G-Section (bramalea) are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around G-Section (bramalea)
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G-Section (bramalea) | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| E-F-K-Section (bramalea) 13,596 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Professors Lake 10,335 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| H-Section (bramalea) 9,040 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| M-Section (bramalea) 9,901 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Bramalea Woods 6,521 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) 16,400 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around G-Section (bramalea) (low), with E-F-K-Section (bramalea) next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what G-Section (bramalea) faces
What to do about the hazards G-Section (bramalea) 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; G-Section (bramalea)’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around G-Section (bramalea)’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in G-Section (bramalea).
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, G-Section (bramalea) takes its 2007 health region’s share.
Questions about flooding and hazards in G-Section (bramalea)
Is G-Section (bramalea) at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around G-Section (bramalea) (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
Is radon a problem in G-Section (bramalea)?
Around G-Section (bramalea), 90 survey homes were tested and 0% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How big is the earthquake risk in G-Section (bramalea)?
Expected earthquake damage in G-Section (bramalea) comes to $0.030 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is G-Section (bramalea)’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
G-Section (bramalea)’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does G-Section (bramalea) flood?
The inventory lists a study touching G-Section (bramalea); whether a given street floods is on that map, not in 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).