Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Wildfire low, radon 5%: how Crown Point East stands on hazards
Since 1986 almost nothing has burned near Crown Point East: 0% of the land within 25 km, or 0.000% a year. Earthquake risk in Crown Point East is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.044 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Hazard risk gives Crown Point East a grade of B+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Crown Point East’s hazards
For Crown Point East, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Crown Point East faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Crown Point East grades B+ for hazard risk
For Crown Point East, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
Its place: #494 of 866 in Ontario and #1,255 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 Crown Point East has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Crown Point East’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Crown Point East, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
With 0.1% forest fuel within 5 km and 0.9% within 25 km, the land around Crown Point East gives a fire little to burn.
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
Of the 871 towns in Ontario, 638 have a burn rate that rounds to zero, Crown Point East among them; Sioux Lookout leads at 0.16% a year.
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%; Crown Point East, 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Crown Point East
Flood studies whose area touches Crown Point East, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
An empty entry for Crown Point East on the inventory isn’t proof of safety; ask locally for flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in Ontario, 69% of towns against 58% nationally, but none in the inventory touches Crown Point East.
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 Crown Point East’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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Crown Point East $0.044 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.
Crown Point East’s $0.044 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (1.5 times as much).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in Ontario: Crown Point East’s $0.044 against $0.043; Alexandria reaches $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.
More earthquake risk than most: only 32% of Canada’s 2,611 towns are above Crown Point East.
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 Crown Point East.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Earthquake risk published for the city of Hamilton, not by town
5% of homes tested around Crown Point East are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
At 5% over the guideline, the area around Crown Point East is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the City of Hamilton Health Unit, Crown Point East included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Ontario is 4% over 200 Bq/m³; the survey area around Crown Point East has 5%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Radon tops the guideline in a modest share of homes around Crown Point East, a band holding 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% rank above.
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.
Whatever Crown Point East’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Crown Point East
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Crown Point East; 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 Crown Point East 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 Crown Point East’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Point East | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Crown Point West 6,132 · 0.7 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Homeside 6,011 · 0.8 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Delta East 6,186 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Bartonville 4,311 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Stipeley 6,572 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Blakeley 3,151 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
Among its neighbours Crown Point East has the most fire on record (low); Crown Point West follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Crown Point East faces
Practical steps for Crown Point East’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. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Crown Point East until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Crown Point East’s included.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Crown Point East 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 Crown Point East.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Crown Point East
Is Crown Point East at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Crown Point East since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
Is radon a problem in Crown Point East?
5% of the 100 homes Health Canada tested around Crown Point East topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How big is the earthquake risk in Crown Point East?
About $0.044 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Crown Point East.
How is Crown Point East’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Crown Point East’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does Crown Point East flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Crown Point East (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
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).