Photo: J. H. Field · Public domainEnglehart’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 7.8% of area homes over the radon guideline
Burn scars are few around Englehart, with 0.1% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.003% a year). Earthquake risk in Englehart is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.043 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Hazard risk gives Englehart a grade of B; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Englehart’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Englehart: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Englehart faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Englehart: B
Seismic risk and radon set Englehart’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
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 Englehart: 0% within 5 km, 0.1% within 25 km
Past fire around Englehart’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.003% of the land around Englehart each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
Nothing inside 5 km of Englehart’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 14 km off.
There is forest near Englehart’s homes (19% within 5 km) and more of it further out (40% 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 872
At 0.003% a year, Englehart is near the top in Ontario: 50th of 872, behind Sioux Lookout (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.
7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns burn fast enough to rank moderate or above; Englehart stays low, with 92%.
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.
No flood study is listed for Englehart
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Englehart: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Englehart; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Englehart has no flood study on file, though 69% of towns in Ontario do (Canada: 58%).
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 Englehart’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.”
Expected shaking damage in Englehart: $0.043 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Nothing unusual about Englehart’s ground: $0.043 against a typical $0.030, 1.4 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Englehart at $0.043 beside a median in Ontario of $0.043, with Alexandria on top at $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.
Englehart sits mid-range among Canada’s 2,611 towns: 36% 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).
The model counts damage to Englehart’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 about average around Englehart: 7.8% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Radon tests for the Timiskaming Health Unit
Englehart’s area, at 7.8%, is close to the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Englehart (7.8%) than in the typical town in Ontario (4%); 1% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Englehart’s band of 5 to 10%; 26% 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.
The share describes the area, not a house: in Englehart as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Englehart
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Englehart; 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 Englehart, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Englehart’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Englehart | Low | $0.043 | 7.8% | None listed |
| Armstrong 1,269 · 13 km | Low | $0.038 | 7.8% | None listed |
| Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part 3,606 · 17 km | Low | $0.034 | 7.8% | None listed |
The fire record around Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part is a touch heavier than Englehart’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Englehart faces
Practical steps for Englehart’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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Englehart is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Englehart’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- 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 Englehart.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Englehart’s figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Englehart
How is Englehart’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Englehart grades B for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Englehart flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Englehart (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How big is the earthquake risk in Englehart?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Englehart $0.043 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is radon a problem in Englehart?
7.8% of the 103 homes Health Canada tested around Englehart topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is Englehart at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Englehart’s band is low, with 0.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2012), so wildfire doesn’t change its 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).