Kinkora is on Canada’s flood inventory: 2 listed, led by Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action - Government of Prince Edward Island
Wildfire barely registers for Kinkora, at 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). Seismic risk in Kinkora sits near the middle: $0.027 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Radon is lower than usual: 3.5% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Kinkora grades A− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Kinkora’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Kinkora: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Kinkora faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Kinkora grades A− for hazard risk
The grade weighs Kinkora’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
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.
Little of the land around Kinkora has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Kinkora’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.000% of the land around Kinkora each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
The nearer ring around Kinkora is less wooded (9.2% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (16%).
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, Kinkora 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.
Kinkora 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.
2 flood studies cover Kinkora, the newest from Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action - Government of Prince Edward Island
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Kinkora: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The newest of 2 studies covering Kinkora is Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action - Government of Prince Edward Island’s, from 2024; open its map to see the zones.
| 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
Its flood study puts Kinkora with 100% of towns on Prince Edward Island; 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 mapping is shown for Kinkora to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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 Kinkora $0.027 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Kinkora’s $0.027 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 on Prince Edward Island peaks in O'Leary ($0.034); Kinkora, at $0.027, sits above the median of $0.020.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Kinkora sits mid-range among Canada’s 2,611 towns: 53% expect more shaking damage.
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 loss is to Kinkora’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
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 Kinkora are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Kinkora’s survey area reads 3.5% over the guideline, under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Figures for radon tests are published for the Prince Edward Island Health Region as a whole, not for Kinkora alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon around Kinkora 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.
Kinkora is in the lowest band, with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns: under 5% of tests over the guideline, while 63% have 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Kinkora only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Kinkora
Alerts for Kinkora 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Kinkora are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Kinkora
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinkora | Low | $0.027 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Kensington 2,016 · 9.7 km | Low | $0.032 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Kensington, Part 1 3,357 · 9.8 km | Low | $0.029 | 3.5% | Yes |
| New London 1,443 · 13 km | Low | $0.021 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Summerside 19,006 · 14 km | Low | $0.030 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Crapaud, Part 1 1,781 · 16 km | Low | $0.015 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Malpeque Bay 1,351 · 17 km | Low | $0.027 | 3.5% | Yes |
The neighbour with the most fire is Kensington (low), still no more than Kinkora (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Kinkora faces
What to do about the hazards Kinkora 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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Kinkora’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Kinkora’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Kinkora without grading them.
- 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 Kinkora until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Kinkora
Does Kinkora flood?
A flood study covers Kinkora 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 Kinkora?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Kinkora’s buildings lose $0.027 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is Kinkora’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Kinkora’s Hazard risk grade is A−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Kinkora at risk of wildfire?
No meaningful wildfire history near Kinkora: 0% of nearby land since 1986, band low.
Is radon a problem in Kinkora?
Around Kinkora, 113 survey homes were tested and 3.5% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
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).