Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.0Miltonvale Park faces fewer hazards than 88% of Canadian towns
Wildfire barely registers for Miltonvale Park, at 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). Shaking is about as much of a worry in Miltonvale Park as in most places, at $0.019 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon is lower than usual: 3.5% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Miltonvale Park grades A for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Miltonvale Park’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Miltonvale Park: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Miltonvale Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Miltonvale Park: A
Seismic risk and radon set Miltonvale Park’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
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 Miltonvale Park has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Miltonvale Park’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Miltonvale Park burns at 0.000% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Forest thickens with distance from Miltonvale Park: 6.2% of the land within 5 km, 18% within 25 km.
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
None of the 13 towns on Prince Edward Island has a burn rate above zero to three decimals; Miltonvale Park is no exception.
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.
Like most of Canada’s 2,610 towns (92%), Miltonvale Park is in the low band, with a burn rate of zero to three decimals; 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.
Flooding around Miltonvale Park 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 Miltonvale Park, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The newest of 2 studies covering Miltonvale Park 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
Flood maps are common on Prince Edward Island: 100% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Miltonvale Park is among them.
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 Miltonvale 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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Expected shaking damage in Miltonvale Park: $0.019 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.
With $0.019 of shaking damage a year per $1,000, Miltonvale Park is about even with the typical $0.030 (0.6 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Miltonvale Park runs at $0.019 a year, near the $0.020 of the typical town on Prince Edward Island; 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.
Earthquakes cost less around Miltonvale Park than in 66% of Canada’s 2,611 towns.
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 Miltonvale Park’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).
Little radon around Miltonvale Park: 3.5% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Miltonvale Park’s survey area reads 3.5% over the guideline, under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Miltonvale Park, 3.5% of tests topped the guideline, about the same as the typical town on Prince Edward Island (3.5%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Under 5% puts Miltonvale Park 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.
One home in Miltonvale Park can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Prince Edward Island Health Region
Weather and fire alerts for Miltonvale Park
Alerts for Miltonvale 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. |
Evacuation orders for Miltonvale Park come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Miltonvale Park’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miltonvale Park | Low | $0.019 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Kingston 1,308 · 7.6 km | Low | $0.018 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Cornwall 7,920 · 9.3 km | Low | $0.019 | 3.5% | Yes |
| Charlottetown 48,118 · 9.4 km | Low | $0.019 | 3.5% | Yes |
| New Glasgow 5,502 · 9.7 km | Low | $0.020 | 3.5% | Yes |
| North Shore 2,994 · 13 km | Low | $0.020 | 3.5% | Yes |
| North Shore 1,609 · 14 km | Low | $0.021 | 3.5% | Yes |
Kingston (low) has the heaviest fire record of Miltonvale Park’s neighbours, and Miltonvale Park (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Miltonvale Park faces
Practical steps for Miltonvale 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?
- 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. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Miltonvale Park.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Miltonvale Park’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Miltonvale Park’s.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Miltonvale Park takes its 2007 health region’s share.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Miltonvale Park
How is Miltonvale Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Miltonvale Park’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does Miltonvale Park flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Miltonvale Park; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
Is Miltonvale Park at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Miltonvale Park’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Miltonvale Park?
Expected earthquake damage in Miltonvale Park comes to $0.019 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is radon a problem in Miltonvale Park?
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 Miltonvale Park.
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).