Photo: Mustang Joe · CC0Few places are as safe from hazards as Creditview: it beats 86% of Canadian towns
The national fire record shows next to nothing around Creditview, 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). NRCan expects $0.040 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Creditview, near the typical $0.030. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 0% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Creditview a grade of A, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Creditview’s hazards
For Creditview, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Creditview faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Creditview: A
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Creditview with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #194 of 866 in Ontario and #529 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.
Few fires near Creditview: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Creditview’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
A burn rate of 0.000% a year keeps Creditview in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Creditview: forest fuel is 0.4% within 5 km and 0.6% 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
Sioux Lookout has the highest burn rate in Ontario, 0.16% a year; around Creditview, as around 638 of the 871 towns, it rounds to 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Creditview, burning 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.
3 flood studies cover Creditview, the newest from Credit Valley Conservation Authority
Flood studies whose area touches Creditview, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
For Creditview the inventory points to 3 studies, most recently Credit Valley Conservation Authority’s in 2019.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooksville Creek | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2019 | final · not public |
| Wolfedale Creek | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2019 | final · not public |
| Credit River | Credit Valley Conservation Authority | 2005 | final · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in Ontario: 69% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Creditview is among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Mapping around Creditview goes back to the 2000s and peaks in the 2010s, with 2 of its 3 studies.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Creditview.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Creditview.
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 Creditview: $0.040 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Creditview’s $0.040 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (1.3 times as much).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Neither high nor low in Ontario: Creditview’s $0.040 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.
Neither high nor low for Canada: 43% of the 2,611 towns expect more damage than Creditview.
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 Creditview.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Mississauga
Radon runs low around Creditview: 0% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Radon tests for the Peel Regional Health Unit
Creditview’s survey area reads 0% over the guideline, under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Ontario is 4% over 200 Bq/m³; around Creditview it is 0%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Radon rarely tops the guideline around Creditview, as for 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 63% see 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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Creditview’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Creditview
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Creditview; 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 Creditview, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Creditview
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creditview | Low | $0.040 | 0% | Yes |
| DT Core 33,003 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.040 | 0% | Yes |
| Fairview 7,597 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.040 | 0% | Yes |
| Erindale 22,755 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.040 | 0% | Yes |
| DT Fairview 18,209 · 2.8 km | Low | $0.040 | 0% | Yes |
| Uptown 12,244 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.040 | 0% | Yes |
| Cooksville NHD (West) 14,821 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.040 | 0% | Yes |
Among its neighbours Creditview has the most fire on record (low); DT Core follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Creditview faces
What to do about the hazards Creditview 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
- 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 Creditview.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Creditview’s included.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Creditview is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- 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 Creditview.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Creditview
How is Creditview’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Creditview’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does Creditview flood?
There is flood mapping for Creditview on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Creditview?
Around Creditview, 90 survey homes were tested and 0% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How big is the earthquake risk in Creditview?
Expected earthquake damage in Creditview comes to $0.040 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Creditview at risk of wildfire?
No meaningful wildfire history near Creditview: 0% of nearby land since 1986, band low.
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).