Remington Park’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 14% of area homes over the radon guideline
Fire seldom reaches Remington Park: since 1986, 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.007% a year). Shaking is about as much of a worry in Remington Park as in most places, at $0.019 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Remington Park grades C+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Remington Park’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Remington Park: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Remington Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Remington Park grades C+ for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Remington Park’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
Its place: #682 of 866 in Ontario and #1,870 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.
Little of the land around Remington Park has burned: 0.2% within 5 km, 0.2% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Remington Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around Remington Park burns at 0.007% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0.3% within 25 km, the land around Remington Park 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 Remington Park burns at 0.007% a year, the 32nd 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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Remington Park burns, but slower than in the 7.5% above it.
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.
No flood study is listed for Remington Park
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Remington Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Remington Park; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Ontario reaches 69% of towns, beside 58% across Canada, but not Remington Park.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Remington Park floods.
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.”
Expected shaking damage in Remington Park: $0.019 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Remington Park’s $0.019 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (0.6 times as much).
Remington Park shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Windsor.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Ontario: Remington Park’s $0.019 against a median of $0.043; 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.
Remington Park is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 66% 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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Remington Park’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 high around Remington Park: 14% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Remington Park’s area, at 14%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places. Figures for radon tests are published for the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit as a whole, not for Remington Park alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Remington Park, 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.
One test in ten or more tops the guideline around Remington Park, as in 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 4.6% go 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Remington Park only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Remington Park
Alerts for Remington Park 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 Remington Park 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 Remington Park
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remington Park | Low | $0.019 | 14% | None listed |
| South Walkerville 6,129 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | None listed |
| Devonshire 9,852 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
| South Central 10,392 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | None listed |
| South Windsor 15,896 · 3.0 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
| South Cameron 11,804 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | None listed |
| Walkerville 19,541 · 3.4 km | Low | $0.019 | 14% | Yes |
South Central burns a little more than Remington Park, 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 Remington Park faces
Practical steps for Remington Park’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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Remington Park’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Remington Park is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- 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 Remington Park.
- 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 Remington Park’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Remington Park
Is radon a problem in Remington Park?
The area’s survey found 14% of 195 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Remington Park.
Is Remington Park at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Remington Park’s low band (0.2% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2010) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in Remington Park?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Remington Park’s buildings lose $0.019 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is Remington Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Remington Park’s Hazard risk grade is C+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does Remington Park flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Remington Park, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
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).