Flood mapping exists for Pineview: 1 on record, latest by Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
Since 1986 almost nothing has burned near Pineview: 0% of the land within 25 km, or 0.000% a year. Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.15 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Pineview is ordinary for Canada: 6.2% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Pineview a grade of C+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Pineview’s hazards
For Pineview, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Pineview faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Pineview grades C+ for hazard risk
For Pineview, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
Its place: #703 of 866 in Ontario and #1,894 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Only 64 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Pineview: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Pineview’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Pineview’s 0.000% is in the low band.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Pineview’s homes came within 25 km, never inside 5 km.
Forest fuel rises from 3% within 5 km of Pineview to 7.5% within 25 km: the fuel lies away from homes.
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 Pineview 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Pineview, 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.
Pineview is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
Flood studies whose area touches Pineview, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The flood study touching Pineview is Rideau Valley Conservation Authority’s, dated 2014; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa River | Rideau Valley Conservation Authority | 2014 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Pineview is one of the 69% of towns in Ontario with a flood study on file; across Canada it is 58%.
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 Pineview’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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Pineview $0.15 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Roughly 5 times the typical $0.030: Pineview’s $0.15 marks real seismic exposure.
Pineview doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Ottawa.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Above the middle in Ontario: Pineview’s $0.15 against a median of $0.043, with Alexandria 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.
15% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Pineview, 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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Pineview.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
6.2% of homes tested around Pineview are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Pineview’s area, at 6.2%, is close to the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the City of Ottawa Health Unit, with Pineview one part of it.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Pineview than in most towns in Ontario: 6.2% against 4%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Pineview’s band of 5 to 10%; 26% sit higher.
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.
Radon varies from house to house in Pineview, so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Pineview
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Pineview; 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 Pineview, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Pineview’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pineview | Low | $0.15 | 6.2% | Yes |
| Beacon Hill South - Cardinal Heights 7,746 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.15 | 6.2% | Yes |
| Carson Grove - Carson Meadows 11,290 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.15 | 6.2% | None listed |
| Hawthorn Meadows - Sheffield Glen 6,838 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.15 | 6.2% | None listed |
| Overbrook 19,953 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.15 | 6.2% | Yes |
| Blackburn Hamlet 7,606 · 3.5 km | Low | $0.15 | 6.2% | Yes |
| Riverview 14,030 · 3.7 km | Low | $0.15 | 6.2% | Yes |
The neighbour with the most fire is Beacon Hill South - Cardinal Heights (low), still no more than Pineview (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Pineview faces
Practical steps for Pineview’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.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap the water heater down.
- Keep 72 hours of supplies.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
- Is earthquake cover included?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. For Pineview, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Pineview 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 Pineview.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Pineview’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Pineview
Does Pineview flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Pineview; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
Is Pineview at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Pineview’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2014) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in Pineview?
Expected earthquake damage in Pineview comes to $0.15 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Pineview’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Pineview grades C+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Pineview?
The area’s survey found 6.2% of 64 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Pineview.
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).