Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazards in Pleasant View are mild: low wildfire and earthquake risk, and 2.7% of area homes above the radon guideline
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Pleasant View, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.001% a year. NRCan expects $0.043 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Pleasant View, near the typical $0.030. Pleasant View grades A− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Pleasant View’s hazards
For Pleasant View, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Pleasant View faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Pleasant View: A−
Two inputs always count for Pleasant View, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #285 of 866 in Ontario and #700 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The radon share rests on 74 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Pleasant View has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Pleasant View’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.001% of the land a year around Pleasant View, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Fire has stayed at least 17 km from Pleasant View’s homes since 1986.
Little near Pleasant View’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0.1% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 3.2% 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
The land around Pleasant View burns at 0.001% a year, the 83rd highest rate of 871 towns in Ontario; Sioux Lookout tops it 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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Pleasant View 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Pleasant View
Flood studies whose area touches Pleasant View, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
An empty entry for Pleasant View on the inventory isn’t proof of safety; ask locally for flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in Ontario, 69% of towns against 58% nationally, but none in the inventory touches Pleasant View.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Pleasant View.
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.”
Ordinary seismic risk in Pleasant View: $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.
With $0.043 of shaking damage a year per $1,000, Pleasant View is about even with the typical $0.030 (1.4 times).
Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Toronto, with Pleasant View one part of it.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Neither high nor low in Ontario: Pleasant View’s $0.043 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.
Pleasant View’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).
For Pleasant View the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
2.7% of homes tested around Pleasant View are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Where the typical Canadian town has 6.6% of homes over the guideline, Pleasant View’s area has fewer, 2.7%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Pleasant View’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.
Radon rarely tops the guideline around Pleasant View, 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.
Whatever Pleasant View’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests published for the City of Toronto Health Unit, not by town
Where to get warnings in Pleasant View
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Pleasant View; 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 Pleasant View, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Pleasant View’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant View | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | None listed |
| L'Amoreaux West 21,575 · 0.9 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Henry Farm 19,953 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Don Valley Village 26,972 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Hillcrest Village 16,374 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan 27,526 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| East L'Amoreaux 21,533 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
L'Amoreaux West (low) has the heaviest fire record of Pleasant View’s neighbours, and Pleasant View (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Pleasant View faces
What to do about the hazards Pleasant View 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Pleasant View.
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Pleasant View until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Pleasant View without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Pleasant View’s included.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Pleasant View
Does Pleasant View flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Pleasant View’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How big is the earthquake risk in Pleasant View?
Expected earthquake damage in Pleasant View comes to $0.043 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is radon a problem in Pleasant View?
Around Pleasant View, 74 survey homes were tested and 2.7% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Pleasant View’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Pleasant View’s Hazard risk grade is A−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Pleasant View at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around Pleasant View since 1986 (last in 2001); 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).