Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.0Playter Estates-Danforth is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority
Since 1986 almost nothing has burned near Playter Estates-Danforth: 0% of the land within 25 km, or 0.000% a year. NRCan expects $0.043 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Playter Estates-Danforth, near the typical $0.030. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 2.7% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Playter Estates-Danforth grades A− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Playter Estates-Danforth’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Playter Estates-Danforth: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Playter Estates-Danforth faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Playter Estates-Danforth: A−
Seismic risk and radon set Playter Estates-Danforth’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
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. The radon share rests on 74 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Playter Estates-Danforth: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Playter Estates-Danforth’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Playter Estates-Danforth, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Only 1.1% of the land within 25 km of Playter Estates-Danforth is forest fuel, and 0.4% close in.
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 Playter Estates-Danforth, 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Playter Estates-Danforth 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.
A flood study covers Playter Estates-Danforth, from Toronto Regional Conservation Authority: 1 on the inventory
Flood studies whose area touches Playter Estates-Danforth, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
One study on the inventory touches Playter Estates-Danforth, Toronto Regional Conservation Authority’s from 2021, and its area can be large, so it says a map exists, not that the town floods.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Floodline Consolidation | Toronto Regional Conservation Authority | 2021 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Ontario reaches 69% of towns, Playter Estates-Danforth 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 Playter Estates-Danforth’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.
Ordinary seismic risk in Playter Estates-Danforth: $0.043 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.
Playter Estates-Danforth’s $0.043 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (1.4 times as much).
Nobody publishes earthquake risk for Playter Estates-Danforth alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Toronto.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Playter Estates-Danforth at $0.043 beside a median in Ontario of $0.043, with Alexandria on top 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.
Playter Estates-Danforth’s earthquake risk lands near the centre of Canada’s range; 36% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 Playter Estates-Danforth’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).
Little radon around Playter Estates-Danforth: 2.7% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Playter Estates-Danforth’s area, at 2.7%, is below the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, though any one home can still be high. Playter Estates-Danforth shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the City of Toronto Health Unit.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Playter Estates-Danforth’s area, at 2.7%, is below the median in Ontario (4%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Under 5% puts Playter Estates-Danforth with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 63% have more high tests.
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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Playter Estates-Danforth can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Playter Estates-Danforth
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Playter Estates-Danforth; 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 Playter Estates-Danforth, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Playter Estates-Danforth’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playter Estates-Danforth | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| North Riverdale 11,491 · 0.9 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Broadview North 11,080 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Blake-Jones 7,494 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | None listed |
| North St.James Town 18,733 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Cabbagetown-South St.James Town 11,205 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| South Riverdale 28,264 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
Broadview North burns a little more than Playter Estates-Danforth, in the same low band (low here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Playter Estates-Danforth faces
Practical steps for Playter Estates-Danforth’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
- 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 Playter Estates-Danforth.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Playter Estates-Danforth is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Playter Estates-Danforth’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Playter Estates-Danforth’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Playter Estates-Danforth
Is Playter Estates-Danforth at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Playter Estates-Danforth since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How big is the earthquake risk in Playter Estates-Danforth?
Expected earthquake damage in Playter Estates-Danforth comes to $0.043 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Playter Estates-Danforth’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Playter Estates-Danforth’s Hazard risk grade is A−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Playter Estates-Danforth?
2.7% of the 74 homes Health Canada tested around Playter Estates-Danforth topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Does Playter Estates-Danforth flood?
There is flood mapping for Playter Estates-Danforth on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
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).