Few places are as safe from hazards as Springdale: it beats 89% of Canadian towns
The national fire record shows next to nothing around Springdale, 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 Springdale, 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. Springdale grades A for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Springdale’s hazards
For Springdale, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Springdale faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Springdale grades A for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Springdale with little fire nearby would get no credit for 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 Springdale: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Springdale’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Forty years of fire maps put Springdale at 0.000% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Close to Springdale there is little to burn (0.3% forest fuel within 5 km), but 6.1% of the land within 25 km is forest.
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 Springdale, 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.
The low band holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Springdale sits at its very bottom; only 7.5% are above it.
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 Springdale (1 study)
Flood studies whose area touches Springdale, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The flood study touching Springdale 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
Flood maps are common in Ontario: 69% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Springdale is among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Springdale.
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.
Expected shaking damage in Springdale: $0.030 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Springdale’s $0.030 is the typical figure ($0.030): ordinary ground for Canada.
Nobody publishes earthquake risk for Springdale alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Brampton.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Ontario peaks in Alexandria ($0.21); Springdale, 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.
Neither high nor low for Canada: 48% of the 2,611 towns expect more damage than Springdale.
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 Springdale.
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 Springdale: 0% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
A lower share than most: 0% of tested homes around Springdale, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Peel Regional Health Unit, with Springdale one part of it.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Springdale’s area, at 0%, is below the median 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 Springdale; 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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Springdale’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Springdale
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Springdale; 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 Springdale, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Springdale
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springdale | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Rosedale Village 5,764 · 0.9 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Deerfield 13,090 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Countryside 5,595 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Trinity Commons 8,477 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| Sandalwood West (sunny Meadow) 27,171 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
| M-Section (bramalea) 9,901 · 3.1 km | Low | $0.030 | 0% | Yes |
Rosedale Village (low) has the heaviest fire record of Springdale’s neighbours, and Springdale (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Springdale faces
What to do about the hazards Springdale 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
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Springdale takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 Springdale.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Springdale’s included.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Springdale.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Springdale
Is radon a problem in Springdale?
Around Springdale, 90 survey homes were tested and 0% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Is Springdale at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Springdale (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
How big is the earthquake risk in Springdale?
Expected earthquake damage in Springdale comes to $0.030 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Springdale’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Springdale’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does Springdale flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Springdale; 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).