Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainA flood study covers Forest Glade: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from Essex Region Conservation Authority / County of Essex
Burn scars are few around Forest Glade, with 0.1% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.006% a year). NRCan expects $0.019 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Forest Glade, near the typical $0.030. Radon is higher than usual: 14% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Forest Glade a grade of C+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Forest Glade’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Forest Glade: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Forest Glade faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Forest Glade grades C+ for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Forest Glade’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #682 of 866 in Ontario and #1,870 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Forest Glade: 0.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Forest Glade’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Around Forest Glade fire takes 0.006% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Forest Glade’s homes came within 8.2 km, never inside 5 km.
Around Forest Glade the forest is thin or far off: 0.2% of the land within 5 km and 0.2% within 25 km is forest fuel.
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 Forest Glade burns at 0.006% a year, the 39th 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 Forest Glade, 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.
2 flood studies cover Forest Glade, the newest from Essex Region Conservation Authority / County of Essex
Flood studies whose area touches Forest Glade, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Essex Region Conservation Authority / County of Essex and others have studied flooding in areas that include Forest Glade: 2 studies, the latest from 2024.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essex Region | Essex Region Conservation Authority / County of Essex | 2024 | final |
| Little River Watershed Floodplain Mapping | City of Windsor | 2020 | final · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study puts Forest Glade with 69% of towns in Ontario; Canada’s share 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 Forest Glade’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 Forest Glade $0.019 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.
With $0.019 of shaking damage a year per $1,000, Forest Glade is about even with the typical $0.030 (0.6 times).
For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Windsor, Forest Glade included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Ontario peaks in Alexandria ($0.21); Forest Glade, at $0.019, 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 66% of its 2,611 towns sit above Forest Glade.
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 model counts damage to Forest Glade’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Test for radon in Forest Glade: 14% of area homes were over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit
A higher share than most: 14% of tested homes around Forest Glade, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Forest Glade, 14% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 1% over 600, against a median of 4% in Ontario.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Forest Glade is in the 10–20% band, with 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; only 4.6% are 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.
The survey sampled homes around Forest Glade; 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 Forest Glade
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Forest Glade; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Forest Glade come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Forest Glade
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Glade | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
| East Riverside 15,758 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
| Fontainebleau 11,567 · 3.2 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
| Riverside 21,828 · 3.5 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
| Tecumseh 25,554 · 3.6 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
| East Windsor 20,876 · 4.9 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
| Devonshire 9,852 · 6.2 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
The fire record around Riverside is a touch heavier than Forest Glade’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Forest Glade faces
Practical steps for Forest Glade’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 Forest Glade’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Forest Glade floods.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Forest Glade sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Forest Glade’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Forest Glade
Does Forest Glade flood?
Forest Glade’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
How big is the earthquake risk in Forest Glade?
Expected earthquake damage in Forest Glade comes to $0.019 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Forest Glade at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Forest Glade’s low band (0.1% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2010) is short of the level that counts.
Is radon a problem in Forest Glade?
The area’s survey found 14% of 195 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Forest Glade.
How is Forest Glade’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Forest Glade’s Hazard risk grade is C+, 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).