Crown Point West’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 5% of area homes over the radon guideline
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Crown Point West, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Seismic risk in Crown Point West sits near the middle: $0.044 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Hazard risk gives Crown Point West a grade of B+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Crown Point West’s hazards
For Crown Point West, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Crown Point West faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Crown Point West grades B+ for hazard risk
For Crown Point West, 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: 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.
Little of the land around Crown Point West has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Crown Point West’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.000% of the land around Crown Point West each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
With 0.1% forest fuel within 5 km and 1% within 25 km, the land around Crown Point West 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
Among the 871 towns in Ontario, Sioux Lookout burns fastest (0.16% a year); Crown Point West is with the 638 near 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Crown Point West is among the many where the yearly burn rate rounds to zero.
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 Crown Point West
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Crown Point West: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Crown Point West; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its 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 West.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Crown Point West floods.
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 West $0.044 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Nothing unusual about Crown Point West’s ground: $0.044 against a typical $0.030, 1.5 times.
Crown Point West shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Hamilton.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Neither high nor low in Ontario: Crown Point West’s $0.044 sits by the median of $0.043, while 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 West.
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 West.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Some radon around Crown Point West: 5% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Measured across the City of Hamilton Health Unit: radon tests
5% of tested homes around Crown Point West were over the guideline, much like the typical Canadian town at 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Crown Point West (5%) than in the typical town in Ontario (4%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Crown Point West, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% are 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.
Radon varies from house to house in Crown Point West, 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 Crown Point West
Alerts for Crown Point West come from Environment and Climate Change Canada and, for emergencies, Alert Ready.
| 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Crown Point West are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Crown Point West’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Point West | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Crown Point East 5,215 · 0.7 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Stipeley 6,572 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Blakeley 3,151 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Delta East 6,186 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Industrial Sector A and Keith 3,723 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Homeside 6,011 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
Crown Point East (low) has the heaviest fire record of Crown Point West’s neighbours, and Crown Point West (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Crown Point West faces
Practical steps for Crown Point West’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
- 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 Crown Point West.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Crown Point West’s included.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Crown Point West takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 West.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Crown Point West
Is radon a problem in Crown Point West?
5% of the 100 homes Health Canada tested around Crown Point West topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Does Crown Point West flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Crown Point West (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How is Crown Point West’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Crown Point West grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Crown Point West at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Crown Point West (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
How big is the earthquake risk in Crown Point West?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Crown Point West $0.044 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).