Photo: Sikander Iqbal · CC BY-SA 4.0Mimico-Queensway is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Mimico-Queensway, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Seismic risk in Mimico-Queensway sits near the middle: $0.043 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. In Health Canada’s survey, just 2.7% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Mimico-Queensway grades A− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Mimico-Queensway’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Mimico-Queensway: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Mimico-Queensway faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Mimico-Queensway: A−
Earthquake risk and radon make Mimico-Queensway’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
Its place: #285 of 866 in Ontario and #700 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Only 74 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Mimico-Queensway: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Mimico-Queensway’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
A burn rate of 0.000% a year keeps Mimico-Queensway in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
Forest fuel is scarce around Mimico-Queensway: 0.6% of the land within 5 km, 0.5% 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
Of the 871 towns in Ontario, 638 have a burn rate that rounds to zero, Mimico-Queensway 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; Mimico-Queensway 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.
Mimico-Queensway is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Mimico-Queensway: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Toronto Regional Conservation Authority studied flooding in an area that includes Mimico-Queensway (2021); open its map to see which streets lie in a flood zone.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Floodline Consolidation | Toronto Regional Conservation Authority | 2021 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in Ontario: 69% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Mimico-Queensway is among them.
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 Mimico-Queensway.
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 Mimico-Queensway: $0.043 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
With $0.043 of shaking damage a year per $1,000, Mimico-Queensway is about even with the typical $0.030 (1.4 times).
Figures for earthquake risk are published for the city of Toronto as a whole, not for Mimico-Queensway alone.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Mimico-Queensway runs at $0.043 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.
Neither high nor low for Canada: 36% of the 2,611 towns expect more damage than Mimico-Queensway.
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Mimico-Queensway’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon runs low around Mimico-Queensway: 2.7% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · The radon tests numbers here cover the City of Toronto Health Unit
Fewer homes than usual test high around Mimico-Queensway: 2.7% against 6.6% for the typical Canadian town.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Against the typical town in Ontario (4%), the area around Mimico-Queensway has fewer high tests: 2.7%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
63% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Mimico-Queensway’s band, which holds 37%.
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.
One home in Mimico-Queensway can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Mimico-Queensway
Alerts for Mimico-Queensway 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Mimico-Queensway to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Mimico-Queensway
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mimico-Queensway | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Humber Bay Shores 22,633 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Stonegate-Queensway 25,745 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| New Toronto 11,502 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | None listed |
| High Park-Swansea 22,970 · 3.4 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Long Branch 11,400 · 3.8 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Alderwood 12,596 · 3.9 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
Mimico-Queensway’s low band tops its neighbours; Humber Bay Shores is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Mimico-Queensway faces
Practical steps for Mimico-Queensway’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. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Mimico-Queensway’s.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Mimico-Queensway is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Mimico-Queensway’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Mimico-Queensway.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Mimico-Queensway
Is Mimico-Queensway at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Mimico-Queensway (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
Is radon a problem in Mimico-Queensway?
2.7% of the 74 homes Health Canada tested around Mimico-Queensway topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Does Mimico-Queensway flood?
There is flood mapping for Mimico-Queensway on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
How is Mimico-Queensway’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Mimico-Queensway’s Hazard risk grade is A−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Mimico-Queensway?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Mimico-Queensway’s buildings lose $0.043 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
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).