Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Wildfire low, radon 5%: how North End East stands on hazards
Around North End East, wildfire is practically absent from the record: 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. NRCan expects $0.044 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in North End East, near the typical $0.030. North End East grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about North End East’s hazards
For North End East, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What North End East faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
North End East grades B+ for hazard risk
For North End 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: 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 North End East has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where North End East’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
In a typical year 0.000% of the land near North End East burns; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%, and both are low.
Around North End East the forest is thin or far off: 1.5% of the land within 5 km and 2% within 25 km is forest fuel.
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, North End 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; North End East 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 North End East
Flood studies whose area touches North End East, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
No flood study on the national inventory covers North End East; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Missing from a well-mapped province: North End East has no study, where 69% of towns in Ontario have one against 58% nationally.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for North End East.
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.”
Expected shaking damage in North End East: $0.044 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
1.5 times the typical $0.030: North End East’s $0.044 is ordinary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around North End East 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.
In the upper part of Canada’s range: 32% of its 2,611 towns expect more damage than North End 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 North End 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
Radon about average around North End East: 5% over the 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 North End East is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
North End East’s area, at 5%, is above the median in Ontario (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 North End 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 North End 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). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the City of Hamilton Health Unit
Where to get warnings in North End East
Alerts for North End East 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 North End East 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)
Hazards in the places around North End East
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North End East | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Beasley 6,338 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Central 3,698 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Landsdale 7,681 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Corktown 8,952 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
| Strathcona 9,348 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | Yes |
| Durand 13,338 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.044 | 5% | None listed |
Nowhere around North End East burns more: Beasley, the closest rival, is low to its low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what North End East faces
Practical steps for North End 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. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, North End East 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 North End East.
- Wildfire counts one way. For North End East, 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 North End East’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in North End East
How is North End East’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives North End East B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does North End East flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for North End East, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is North End East at risk of wildfire?
No meaningful wildfire history near North End East: 0% of nearby land since 1986, band low.
Is radon a problem in North End East?
The area’s survey found 5% of 100 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in North End East.
How big is the earthquake risk in North End East?
Expected earthquake damage in North End East comes to $0.044 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).