Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0New Springbrook faces fewer hazards than 89% of Canadian towns
Wildfire isn’t New Springbrook’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.000% a year). Earthquake risk in New Springbrook 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%. New Springbrook grades A for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about New Springbrook’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for New Springbrook: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What New Springbrook faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in New Springbrook: A
Two inputs always count for New Springbrook, 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.
Few fires near New Springbrook: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around New Springbrook’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), New Springbrook’s 0.000% is in the low band.
Homes in New Springbrook sit on open or built-up ground (0.3% forest fuel within 5 km); the wider 25 km holds 5.7%.
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
Near-zero burning puts New Springbrook with 638 of the 871 towns in Ontario, far below Sioux Lookout 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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, New Springbrook 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.
Flooding around New Springbrook is mapped in 12 studies, the newest by Credit Valley Conservation Authority
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for New Springbrook: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For New Springbrook the inventory points to 12 studies, most recently Credit Valley Conservation Authority’s in 2016.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Credit | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2016 | final · not public |
| Credit River | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2008 | final · not public |
| West Credit River | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2008 | final · not public |
| Credit River | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2007 | final · not public |
| Credit River | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2006 | final · not public |
| Huttonville Creek | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2006 | final · not public |
| Credit River | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2005 | final · not public |
| Credit River Heritage Road tributary | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2005 | final · not public |
4 more studies on the inventory touch New Springbrook.
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study puts New Springbrook 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.
The busiest decade for flood studies around New Springbrook was the 2000s (8 of 12); they run from the 1990s to the 2010s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching New Springbrook.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of New Springbrook’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.
Ordinary seismic risk in New Springbrook: $0.030 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
New Springbrook’s $0.030 matches the typical town’s $0.030.
Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Brampton, with New Springbrook one part of it.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
New Springbrook’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 New Springbrook (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 New Springbrook’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).
Radon runs low around New Springbrook: 0% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
New Springbrook’s area, at 0%, is below the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, though any one home can still be high.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs lower around New Springbrook than in most towns in Ontario: 0% against 4%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Radon rarely tops the guideline around New Springbrook, as for 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 63% see more.
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 New Springbrook 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). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Peel Regional Health Unit
Weather and fire alerts for New Springbrook
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for New Springbrook; 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around New Springbrook, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around New Springbrook
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Springbrook | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Springbrook 14,961 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Credit Valley 18,078 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Churchville 9,043 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Fletchers West 18,552 · 3.9 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Spring Valley 12,564 · 4.0 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Northwood Park 10,402 · 4.6 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around New Springbrook (low), with Springbrook next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what New Springbrook faces
What to do about the hazards New Springbrook 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
- 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 New Springbrook.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of New Springbrook’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for New Springbrook is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as New Springbrook’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in New Springbrook
How is New Springbrook’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives New Springbrook A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in New Springbrook?
In NRCan’s seismic model, New Springbrook’s buildings lose $0.030 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is New Springbrook at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: New Springbrook’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does New Springbrook flood?
There is flood mapping for New Springbrook on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in New Springbrook?
Around New Springbrook, 90 survey homes were tested and 0% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
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).