Photo: Mhsheikholeslami · CC BY-SA 4.0Flood mapping exists for Campbellford: 1 on record, latest by Lower Trent Region Conservation Authority
Fire has left almost no mark near Campbellford: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. NRCan expects $0.029 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Campbellford, near the typical $0.030. In Health Canada’s survey, 6.1% of homes tested in Campbellford’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Campbellford a grade of B+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Campbellford’s hazards
For Campbellford, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Campbellford faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Campbellford: B+
Two inputs always count for Campbellford, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #464 of 866 in Ontario and #905 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.
Little of the land around Campbellford has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Campbellford’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.000% of the land around Campbellford each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
About as much forest grows next to Campbellford’s homes (11% within 5 km) as across 25 km (14%).
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
Little or nothing burns around Campbellford in a typical year; 638 of the 871 towns in Ontario share that, and Sioux Lookout leads 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.
Only 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; Campbellford, 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.
Lower Trent Region Conservation Authority has mapped flooding for Campbellford (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Campbellford: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
A 2024 study by Lower Trent Region Conservation Authority covers Campbellford, and its map, not the inventory, shows the zones.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Trent River | Lower Trent Region Conservation Authority | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Ontario reaches 69% of towns, Campbellford 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.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Campbellford’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 Campbellford: $0.029 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.029 per $1,000, Campbellford’s earthquake risk is the typical Canadian town’s $0.030.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Ontario: Campbellford’s $0.029 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.
Neither high nor low for Canada: 51% of the 2,611 towns expect more damage than Campbellford.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Campbellford is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon about average around Campbellford: 6.1% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Campbellford’s area 6.1%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Campbellford doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Heal health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Campbellford’s area, at 6.1%, is above the median in Ontario (4%), and 1% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
A middling share of high tests puts Campbellford with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, below 26% of them.
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.
Neighbouring homes in Campbellford can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Campbellford
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Campbellford; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Campbellford come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Campbellford’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
Campbellford’s low band tops its neighbours; Norwood is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Campbellford faces
What to do about the hazards Campbellford 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. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Campbellford’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Campbellford floods.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Campbellford sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Campbellford, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Campbellford
How is Campbellford’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Campbellford B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is radon a problem in Campbellford?
Around Campbellford, 98 survey homes were tested and 6.1% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Is Campbellford at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Campbellford since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How big is the earthquake risk in Campbellford?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Campbellford $0.029 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Campbellford flood?
Campbellford’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
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).