M-Section (bramalea) faces fewer hazards than 89% of Canadian towns
Fire has left almost no mark near M-Section (bramalea): 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquake risk in M-Section (bramalea) is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.030 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 0% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. M-Section (bramalea) grades A for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about M-Section (bramalea)’s hazards
For M-Section (bramalea), from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What M-Section (bramalea) faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
M-Section (bramalea) grades A for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set M-Section (bramalea)’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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near M-Section (bramalea): 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around M-Section (bramalea)’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around M-Section (bramalea), 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Forest fuel is scarce around M-Section (bramalea): 0.2% of the land within 5 km, 4.4% 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
Of the 871 towns in Ontario, 638 have a burn rate that rounds to zero, M-Section (bramalea) among them; Sioux Lookout leads at 0.16% a year.
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 M-Section (bramalea), 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.
Toronto Regional Conservation Authority has mapped flooding for M-Section (bramalea) (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for M-Section (bramalea): who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Toronto Regional Conservation Authority studied flooding in an area that includes M-Section (bramalea) (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
69% of towns in Ontario have a flood study, more than Canada’s 58%; M-Section (bramalea) has one too.
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 M-Section (bramalea) 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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in M-Section (bramalea) $0.030 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
M-Section (bramalea)’s $0.030 matches the typical town’s $0.030.
Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Brampton, with M-Section (bramalea) one part of it.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
M-Section (bramalea)’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.
M-Section (bramalea)’s earthquake risk lands near the centre of Canada’s range; 48% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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).
For M-Section (bramalea) the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
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 M-Section (bramalea) are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
A lower share than most: 0% of tested homes around M-Section (bramalea), the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Figures for radon tests are published for the Peel Regional Health Unit as a whole, not for M-Section (bramalea) alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Against the typical town in Ontario (4%), the area around M-Section (bramalea) 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: M-Section (bramalea) 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 M-Section (bramalea) 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 M-Section (bramalea)
Alerts for M-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. |
Evacuation orders for M-Section (bramalea) 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 M-Section (bramalea)
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M-Section (bramalea) | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| N-Section (bramalea) 7,513 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Professors Lake 10,335 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Deerfield 13,090 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| H-Section (bramalea) 9,040 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Bramalea Woods 6,521 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| G-Section (bramalea) 8,224 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
N-Section (bramalea) (low) has the heaviest fire record of M-Section (bramalea)’s neighbours, and M-Section (bramalea) (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what M-Section (bramalea) faces
Practical steps for M-Section (bramalea)’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. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for M-Section (bramalea)’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- 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 M-Section (bramalea).
- Wildfire counts one way. For M-Section (bramalea), wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, M-Section (bramalea) takes its 2007 health region’s share.
Questions about flooding and hazards in M-Section (bramalea)
Does M-Section (bramalea) flood?
The inventory lists a study touching M-Section (bramalea); whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in M-Section (bramalea)?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in M-Section (bramalea) $0.030 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is M-Section (bramalea) at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: M-Section (bramalea)’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in M-Section (bramalea)?
0% of the 90 homes Health Canada tested around M-Section (bramalea) topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is M-Section (bramalea)’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives M-Section (bramalea) A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).