A flood study covers Glenview West: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Hamilton Conservation Authority
Wildfire isn’t Glenview West’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.000% a year). Seismic risk in Glenview West sits near the middle: $0.044 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. In Health Canada’s survey, 5% of homes tested in Glenview West’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%. Glenview West grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Glenview West’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Glenview West: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Glenview West faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Glenview West: B+
Two inputs always count for Glenview West, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
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. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Little of the land around Glenview West has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Glenview West’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The land within 25 km of Glenview West burns at 0.000% a year on average, the low band; the typical Canadian town: 0.000%.
Little near Glenview West’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0.1% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0.8% 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
Among the 871 towns in Ontario, Sioux Lookout burns fastest (0.16% a year); Glenview 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.
Glenview West shares the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, its burn rate rounding to nothing; 7.5% burn faster.
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.
Hamilton Conservation Authority has mapped flooding for Glenview West (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Glenview West: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching Glenview West is Hamilton Conservation Authority’s, dated 2025; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hill Creek | Hamilton Conservation Authority | 2025 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in Ontario: 69% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Glenview West is among them.
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 Glenview West.
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.
Ordinary seismic risk in Glenview West: $0.044 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.044 per $1,000, Glenview West’s earthquake risk is about the typical Canadian town’s ($0.030; 1.5 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Glenview West’s $0.044 is close to the median 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.
32% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Glenview West, which places it in the upper third.
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 loss is to Glenview West’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Not measured by town: earthquake risk (the city of Hamilton)
5% of homes tested around Glenview West are over the radon 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
The survey area of Glenview West reads 5%, a shade from the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Glenview West than in most towns in Ontario: 5% against 4%.
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 Glenview West 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.
One home in Glenview West can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Glenview West
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Glenview West; 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 Glenview West, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Glenview 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenview West | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Normanhurst 3,260 · 0.8 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Bartonville 4,311 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Rosedale 3,070 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Mcquesten West 6,349 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Red Hill 4,540 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Corman 6,566 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
The neighbour with the most fire is Normanhurst (low), still no more than Glenview West (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Glenview West faces
What to do about the hazards Glenview West 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. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Glenview West’s.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Glenview West takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 Glenview West.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Glenview West’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Glenview West
Is Glenview West at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Glenview West’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How is Glenview West’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Glenview West’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Glenview West?
In Health Canada’s survey, 5% of 100 homes tested in Glenview West’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Glenview West?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Glenview West’s buildings lose $0.044 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Glenview West flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Glenview West; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the 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).