Burlington
Water damage restoration in Burlington
Burlington has flooded badly twice in ten years, and nearly half its homes were built before 1981. If water got into yours, tell us what happened and we'll get back to you.
Burlington's worst floods came from storms that overwhelmed its creeks in hours
On August 4, 2014, about 191 mm of rain fell in roughly eight hours and more than 3,000 homes flooded. The Tuck, Shoreacres, Roseland and Appleby Creek areas were hit hardest, and insured damage came to just over $90 million.
It happened again on July 15, 2024: 74 mm fell, and Burlington accounted for 1,620 of the 1,897 basement floods Halton Region recorded that summer.
Upstream, the Hager–Rambo flood channel, completed in 1976, diverts the upper Hager and Rambo creeks west to Indian Creek.
Close to half of Burlington's homes were built in 1980 or earlier. For older homes, Halton Region pays toward disconnecting the weeping tiles from the sanitary sewer and adding a sump pump, one of the ways to cut the risk of water coming back up the floor drain. Check Halton's current terms.
Who to call in Burlington: Service Burlington for streets and culverts, Halton Region for basements
- Flooded streets, parks, catch basins or culverts: Service Burlington.
- Water coming into the basement through the drain, or a sewage backup: Halton Region, on 311. Report it: Halton's flooding grants ask that the flood was reported.
Tell us what happened in your Burlington home
Where these facts come from
- City of Burlington: five years after the 2014 flood
- Insurance Bureau of Canada via Newswire: Burlington flooding insured damage
- City of Burlington: flood emergency response
- Halton Region: the July 2024 storm report (PW-25-24)
- Conservation Halton: natural hazards and flood channels
- Statistics Canada: 2021 Census Profile
Checked 2026-11-05.