Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Hazard risk in Beverley Glen is lower than in 90% of Canadian towns
Fire has left almost no mark near Beverley Glen: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.001% a year. NRCan expects $0.028 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Beverley Glen, near the typical $0.030. Radon is lower than usual: 0% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Beverley Glen grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Beverley Glen’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Beverley Glen: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Beverley Glen faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Beverley Glen: A
Seismic risk and radon set Beverley Glen’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #74 of 866 in Ontario and #383 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Beverley Glen: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Beverley Glen’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The land within 25 km of Beverley Glen burns at 0.001% a year on average, the low band; the typical Canadian town: 0.000%.
Fire has stayed at least 24 km from Beverley Glen’s homes since 1986.
With 0.2% forest fuel within 5 km and 3.3% within 25 km, the land around Beverley Glen gives a fire little to burn.
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 Beverley Glen 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.
Some fire is mapped around Beverley Glen, but not enough to leave the low band, where 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are; 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.
Toronto Regional Conservation Authority has mapped flooding for Beverley Glen (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Beverley Glen: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching Beverley Glen is Toronto Regional Conservation Authority’s, dated 2021; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Floodline Consolidation | Toronto Regional Conservation Authority | 2021 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Beverley Glen 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Beverley Glen.
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.
Expected shaking damage in Beverley Glen: $0.028 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Beverley Glen’s $0.028 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (0.9 times as much).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Ontario peaks in Alexandria ($0.21); Beverley Glen, at $0.028, is below the median of $0.043.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Beverley Glen (51%).
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 Beverley Glen’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). · Earthquake risk: the city of Vaughan
0% of homes tested around Beverley Glen are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Measured across the York Regional Health Unit: radon tests
Radon runs below the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Beverley Glen’s area, at 0%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Ontario is 4% over 200 Bq/m³; around Beverley Glen it is 0%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Under 5% puts Beverley Glen 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.
The survey sampled homes around Beverley Glen; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Beverley Glen
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Beverley Glen; 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. |
For fires near Beverley Glen, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Beverley Glen
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverley Glen | Low | $0.028 | 0% | Yes |
| Thornhill 17,940 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.028 | 0% | Yes |
| Concord 7,225 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.028 | 0% | Yes |
| Crossroads 4,525 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.028 | 0% | Yes |
| Westminster-Branson 26,027 · 2.8 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Newtonbrook West 23,978 · 3.2 km | Low | $0.043 | 2.7% | Yes |
| Steeles Corners 9,468 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.034 | 0% | Yes |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Beverley Glen (low); Thornhill comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Beverley Glen faces
Practical steps for Beverley Glen’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
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Beverley Glen is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Beverley Glen’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Beverley Glen’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- 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 Beverley Glen.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Beverley Glen
How big is the earthquake risk in Beverley Glen?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Beverley Glen’s buildings lose $0.028 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Beverley Glen at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Beverley Glen’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2001), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does Beverley Glen flood?
There is flood mapping for Beverley Glen on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Beverley Glen?
0% of the 95 homes Health Canada tested around Beverley Glen topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Beverley Glen’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Beverley Glen’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
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).