Flood mapping exists for Fifty Point: 1 on record, latest by Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority
Around Fifty Point, wildfire is practically absent from the record: 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. For earthquakes Fifty Point is middling, $0.044 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. In Health Canada’s survey, 5% of homes tested in Fifty Point’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%. Fifty Point grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Fifty Point’s hazards
For Fifty Point, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Fifty Point faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Fifty Point grades B+ for hazard risk
The grade weighs Fifty Point’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
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.
Wildfire is rare near Fifty Point: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Fifty Point’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Fifty Point, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
With 0.2% forest fuel within 5 km and 0.3% within 25 km, the land around Fifty Point 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
Near-zero burning puts Fifty Point with 638 of the 871 towns in Ontario, far below Sioux Lookout 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%; Fifty Point, 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.
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority has mapped flooding for Fifty Point (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Fifty Point: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority holds the flood mapping that covers Fifty Point (2021), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floodplain Mapping Update in the Towns of Grimsby and Lincoln | Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority | 2021 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
69% of towns in Ontario have a flood study, more than Canada’s 58%; Fifty Point has one too.
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 Fifty Point 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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Expected shaking damage in Fifty Point: $0.044 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
1.5 times the typical $0.030: Fifty Point’s $0.044 is ordinary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Neither high nor low in Ontario: Fifty Point’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.
In the upper part of Canada’s range: 32% of its 2,611 towns expect more damage than Fifty Point.
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 Fifty Point 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). · Data for earthquake risk covers the city of Hamilton
5% of homes tested around Fifty Point are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Shared with the rest of the City of Hamilton Health Unit: radon tests
Fifty Point’s area sits close to the typical Canadian town: 5% over the guideline, against 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Ontario is 4% over 200 Bq/m³; the survey area around Fifty Point has 5%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Fifty Point is in the 5–10% band with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% have more.
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 Fifty Point’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 Fifty Point
Alerts for Fifty Point 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. |
Evacuation orders for Fifty Point come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Fifty Point’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fifty Point | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Industrial 6,690 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Trillium 2,967 · 3.9 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Westmeria 2,646 · 6.0 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Grimsby 31,478 · 6.3 km | Low | $0.046 | 2% | Yes |
| Guernsey 3,808 · 6.5 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Lakeshore 3,127 · 7.3 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
Industrial (low) has the heaviest fire record of Fifty Point’s neighbours, and Fifty Point (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Fifty Point faces
What to do about the hazards Fifty Point 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
- Wildfire counts one way. For Fifty Point, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Fifty Point’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Fifty Point is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- 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 Fifty Point.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Fifty Point
How is Fifty Point’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Fifty Point B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Fifty Point at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Fifty Point since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
Does Fifty Point flood?
There is flood mapping for Fifty Point on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Fifty Point?
In Health Canada’s survey, 5% of 100 homes tested in Fifty Point’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Fifty Point?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Fifty Point’s buildings lose $0.044 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
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).