A flood study covers Industrial: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority
Fire has left almost no mark near Industrial: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. For earthquakes Industrial is middling, $0.044 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. About as many homes carry radon around Industrial as elsewhere, 5% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Industrial grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Industrial’s hazards
For Industrial, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Industrial faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Industrial grades B+ for hazard risk
For Industrial, 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 Industrial has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Industrial’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Industrial burns at 0.000% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
With 0.2% forest fuel within 5 km and 0.4% within 25 km, the land around Industrial 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 Industrial 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.
Like most of Canada’s 2,610 towns (92%), Industrial is in the low band, with a burn rate of zero to three decimals; 7.5% rank higher.
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.
Industrial is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Industrial: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
A 2021 study by Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority covers Industrial, and its map, not the inventory, shows the zones.
| 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
Its flood study puts Industrial with 69% of towns in Ontario; Canada’s share is 58%.
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 Industrial.
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 Industrial: $0.044 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Nothing unusual about Industrial’s ground: $0.044 against a typical $0.030, 1.5 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Industrial runs at $0.044 a year, near the $0.043 of the typical town in Ontario; Alexandria has $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.
Industrial sits above most of Canada’s 2,611 towns on earthquake risk; 32% are higher.
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).
For Industrial the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Earthquake risk: the city of Hamilton
Some radon around Industrial: 5% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
At 5% over the guideline, the area around Industrial is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Industrial 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.
Radon tops the guideline in a modest share of homes around Industrial, 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 Industrial’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). · Radon tests: one figure for all of the City of Hamilton Health Unit
Where to get warnings in Industrial
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Industrial; 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. |
For fires near Industrial, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Industrial’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Fifty Point 3,690 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Trillium 2,967 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Westmeria 2,646 · 4.1 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Guernsey 3,808 · 4.7 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Highway Valley 4,469 · 5.5 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Lakeshore 3,127 · 5.6 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
Fifty Point (low) has the heaviest fire record of Industrial’s neighbours, and Industrial (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Industrial faces
Practical steps for Industrial’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?
- 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, Industrial’s included.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Industrial 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 Industrial.
- 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 Industrial.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Industrial
Is Industrial at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Industrial’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How is Industrial’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Industrial B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Industrial?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Industrial’s buildings lose $0.044 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is radon a problem in Industrial?
The area’s survey found 5% of 100 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Industrial.
Does Industrial flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Industrial; 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).