Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Flood mapping exists for Haliburton Village: 2 on record, latest by County of Haliburton
Fire has left almost no mark near Haliburton Village: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. For earthquakes Haliburton Village is middling, $0.021 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Haliburton Village’s survey area, 6.1% over the radon guideline, is close to the typical town’s 6.6%. Haliburton Village grades A− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Haliburton Village’s hazards
For Haliburton Village, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Haliburton Village faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Haliburton Village grades A− for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Haliburton Village with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #281 of 866 in Ontario and #679 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 Haliburton Village has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Haliburton Village’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
In a typical year 0.000% of the land near Haliburton Village burns; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%, and both are low.
Nothing inside 5 km of Haliburton Village’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 24 km off.
There is forest near Haliburton Village’s homes (12% within 5 km) and more of it further out (24% 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
Little or nothing burns around Haliburton Village 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.
The low band holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Haliburton Village 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.
Haliburton Village is on the flood map inventory: 2 studies, latest by County of Haliburton
Flood studies whose area touches Haliburton Village, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
For Haliburton Village the inventory points to 2 studies, most recently County of Haliburton’s in 2024.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gull and Burnt River Watersheds within Haliburton County | County of Haliburton | 2024 | final |
| County of Haliburton Floodplain Mapping Project | Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Ontario reaches 69% of towns, Haliburton Village 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Haliburton Village.
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 Haliburton Village $0.021 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Haliburton Village’s $0.021 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (0.7 times as much).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.021, Haliburton Village is below the typical town in Ontario ($0.043); Alexandria is highest 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.
Haliburton Village sits mid-range among Canada’s 2,611 towns: 63% 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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Haliburton Village.
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 Haliburton Village: 6.1% over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Source area for radon tests: the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Heal health region
Around Haliburton Village, 6.1% of tested homes topped the guideline, near the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Haliburton Village, 6.1% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 1% over 600, against a median of 4% in Ontario.
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 Haliburton Village 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.
Radon varies from house to house in Haliburton Village, 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 Haliburton Village
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Haliburton Village; 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 Haliburton Village, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Haliburton Village’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haliburton Village | Low | $0.021 | 6.1% | Yes |
| Highlands East 4,372 · 18 km | Low | $0.026 | 6.1% | Yes |
Haliburton Village’s low band tops its neighbours; Highlands East is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Haliburton Village faces
What to do about the hazards Haliburton Village 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. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Haliburton Village’s included.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Haliburton Village without grading them.
- 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 Haliburton Village.
- 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 Haliburton Village until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Haliburton Village
Does Haliburton Village flood?
A flood study covers Haliburton Village on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is Haliburton Village at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around Haliburton Village since 1986 (last in 2025); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
How is Haliburton Village’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Haliburton Village’s Hazard risk grade is A−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Haliburton Village?
Around Haliburton Village, 98 survey homes were tested and 6.1% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How big is the earthquake risk in Haliburton Village?
Expected earthquake damage in Haliburton Village comes to $0.021 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).