Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainCrapaud, Part 1 faces fewer hazards than 91% of Canadian towns
For Crapaud, Part 1, wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.015 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 3.5% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Crapaud, Part 1 grades A for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Crapaud, Part 1’s hazards
For Crapaud, Part 1, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Crapaud, Part 1 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Crapaud, Part 1 grades A for hazard risk
For Crapaud, Part 1, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Crapaud, Part 1: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Crapaud, Part 1’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
With 0.000% burned a year, Crapaud, Part 1 is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
More forest grows near Crapaud, Part 1’s homes (27% within 5 km) than across 25 km (12%).
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 on Prince Edward Island · highest of 13
Every one of the 13 towns on Prince Edward Island, Crapaud, Part 1 among them, has a yearly burn rate that 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.
Crapaud, Part 1 shares the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, its burn rate rounding to nothing; 7.5% burn faster.
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.
Flooding around Crapaud, Part 1 is mapped in 2 studies, the newest by Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action - Government of Prince Edward Island
Flood studies whose area touches Crapaud, Part 1, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
2 studies on the inventory touch Crapaud, Part 1, the newest Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action - Government of Prince Edward Island’s from 2024, and their areas can be large, so they say maps exist, not that the town floods.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEI Pluvial Flood Mapping | Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action - Government of Prince Edward Island | 2024 | final |
| Prince Edward Island Coastal Hazards | Province of PEI, Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action | 2021 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Crapaud, Part 1 is one of the 100% of towns on Prince Edward Island 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.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Crapaud, Part 1 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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Little shaking expected in Crapaud, Part 1: $0.015 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Crapaud, Part 1 it is only $0.015, 0.5 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle on Prince Edward Island: Crapaud, Part 1’s $0.015 against a median of $0.020; O'Leary has $0.034.
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: 72% of its 2,611 towns sit above Crapaud, Part 1.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Crapaud, Part 1 is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
3.5% of homes tested around Crapaud, Part 1 are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Fewer homes than usual test high around Crapaud, Part 1: 3.5% against 6.6% for the typical Canadian town. Nobody publishes radon tests for Crapaud, Part 1 alone, so this card uses the figure for the Prince Edward Island Health Region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon around Crapaud, Part 1 is ordinary for towns on Prince Edward Island: 3.5%, beside a median of 3.5%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Few tests over the guideline: Crapaud, Part 1 shares the bottom band with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, below the other 63%.
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 Crapaud, Part 1’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).
Where to get warnings in Crapaud, Part 1
Alerts for Crapaud, Part 1 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 Crapaud, Part 1 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 Crapaud, Part 1
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crapaud, Part 1 | Low | $0.015 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Kingston 1,308 · 13 km | Low | $0.018 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Kinkora 1,416 · 16 km | Low | $0.027 | 3.5% | Yes |
| West River 4,155 · 18 km | Low | $0.016 | 3.5% | Yes |
| New Glasgow 5,502 · 19 km | Low | $0.020 | 3.5% | Yes |
Among its neighbours Crapaud, Part 1 has the most fire on record (low); Kingston follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Crapaud, Part 1 faces
Practical steps for Crapaud, Part 1’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. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Crapaud, Part 1 without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Crapaud, Part 1’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Crapaud, Part 1, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- 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 Crapaud, Part 1 until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Crapaud, Part 1
Does Crapaud, Part 1 flood?
A flood study covers Crapaud, Part 1 on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
How big is the earthquake risk in Crapaud, Part 1?
About $0.015 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Crapaud, Part 1.
Is radon a problem in Crapaud, Part 1?
The area’s survey found 3.5% of 113 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Crapaud, Part 1.
How is Crapaud, Part 1’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Crapaud, Part 1 grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Crapaud, Part 1 at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Crapaud, Part 1 since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
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).