Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0A flood study covers Neebing: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Lakehead Region Conservation Authority
Wildfire is rare near Neebing: 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.004% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.003 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. More homes than usual carry radon here, 12% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Neebing a grade of A−; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Neebing’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Neebing: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Neebing faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Neebing: A−
Two inputs always count for Neebing, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Neebing: 0.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Neebing’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Neebing’s 0.004% is in the low band.
The closest burn since 1986 lies 22 km from Neebing’s homes, none within 5 km.
70% of the land within 5 km of Neebing is forest fuel, close to the 68% 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 872
Sioux Lookout burns fastest in Ontario at 0.16% a year; Neebing, at 0.004%, ranks 45th of 872.
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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Neebing among them, though its rate is above zero; 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.
Neebing is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Lakehead Region Conservation Authority
Flood studies whose area touches Neebing, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
A 2020 study by Lakehead Region Conservation Authority covers Neebing, and its map, not the inventory, shows the zones.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mosquito Creek | Lakehead Region Conservation Authority | 2020 | final · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Ontario reaches 69% of towns, Neebing included, beside 58% across Canada.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Neebing’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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.
Low seismic risk in Neebing: $0.003 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.
0.1 times the typical $0.030: Neebing’s $0.003 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Ontario expects $0.043 a year in shaking damage; Neebing expects less, $0.003, and Alexandria the most, $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.
At the bottom of Canada’s range, Neebing has 99% of the 2,611 towns above it.
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 Neebing’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).
12% of homes tested around Neebing are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Neebing’s survey area reads 12% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Nobody publishes radon tests for Neebing alone, so this card uses the figure for the Thunder Bay District Health Unit.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Neebing (12%) than in the typical town in Ontario (4%); 0.9% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Neebing sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Neebing only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Neebing
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Neebing; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Neebing come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Neebing faces
What to do about the hazards Neebing 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
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Neebing sits in.
- 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 Neebing’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Neebing floods.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Neebing’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 Neebing
Is radon a problem in Neebing?
Around Neebing, 108 survey homes were tested and 12% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Does Neebing flood?
Neebing’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
How is Neebing’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Neebing’s Hazard risk grade is A−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Neebing?
Expected earthquake damage in Neebing comes to $0.003 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Neebing at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.1% of the land around Neebing since 1986 (last in 2003); at low, it neither helps nor hurts 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).