Hazard risk in N-Section (bramalea) is lower than in 89% of Canadian towns
For N-Section (bramalea), wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquake risk in N-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. 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 N-Section (bramalea) a grade of A, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about N-Section (bramalea)’s hazards
For N-Section (bramalea), from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What N-Section (bramalea) faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in N-Section (bramalea): A
For N-Section (bramalea), 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 N-Section (bramalea): 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around N-Section (bramalea)’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around N-Section (bramalea) burns at 0.000% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Little near N-Section (bramalea)’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0.1% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 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
Sioux Lookout has the highest burn rate in Ontario, 0.16% a year; around N-Section (bramalea), 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.
Only 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; N-Section (bramalea), at a rounded zero, is far from them.
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.
A flood study covers N-Section (bramalea), from Toronto Regional Conservation Authority: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for N-Section (bramalea): who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching N-Section (bramalea) 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
Mapping in Ontario reaches 69% of towns, N-Section (bramalea) included, beside 58% across Canada.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of N-Section (bramalea)’s homes are at risk.
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 N-Section (bramalea) $0.030 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.030 per $1,000, N-Section (bramalea)’s earthquake risk is the typical Canadian town’s $0.030.
For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Brampton, N-Section (bramalea) included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Ontario peaks in Alexandria ($0.21); N-Section (bramalea), at $0.030, is below the median of $0.043.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
N-Section (bramalea) sits mid-range among Canada’s 2,611 towns: 48% expect more shaking damage.
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 N-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).
Little radon around N-Section (bramalea): 0% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Shared with the rest of the Peel Regional Health Unit: radon tests
Fewer homes than usual test high around N-Section (bramalea): 0% against 6.6% for the typical Canadian town.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Ontario is 4% over 200 Bq/m³; around N-Section (bramalea) it is 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: N-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.
Radon varies from house to house in N-Section (bramalea), so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in N-Section (bramalea)
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for N-Section (bramalea); 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. |
For fires near N-Section (bramalea), the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around N-Section (bramalea)
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N-Section (bramalea) | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Bramalea Woods 6,521 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| M-Section (bramalea) 9,901 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Lakelands Village 9,636 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Trinity Commons 8,477 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Deerfield 13,090 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Madoc 13,160 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
N-Section (bramalea)’s low band tops its neighbours; Bramalea Woods is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what N-Section (bramalea) faces
Practical steps for N-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
- Wildfire counts one way. For N-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.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for N-Section (bramalea) without grading them.
- 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 N-Section (bramalea) until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for N-Section (bramalea)’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in N-Section (bramalea)
How big is the earthquake risk in N-Section (bramalea)?
In NRCan’s seismic model, N-Section (bramalea)’s buildings lose $0.030 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does N-Section (bramalea) flood?
A flood study covers N-Section (bramalea) on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is N-Section (bramalea) at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of N-Section (bramalea) since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How is N-Section (bramalea)’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives N-Section (bramalea) A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is radon a problem in N-Section (bramalea)?
0% of the 90 homes Health Canada tested around N-Section (bramalea) topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).