Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Hazard risk in Division No. 22, Unorganized is higher than in 95% of Canadian towns
Fire is a regular visitor: 10% of the land within 25 km of Division No. 22, Unorganized has burned since 1986 (0.26% a year). Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.004 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Division No. 22, Unorganized is ordinary for Canada: 7.9% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Division No. 22, Unorganized grades D for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Division No. 22, Unorganized’s hazards
For Division No. 22, Unorganized, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Division No. 22, Unorganized faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Division No. 22, Unorganized grades D for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Division No. 22, Unorganized’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
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.
A high wildfire band for Division No. 22, Unorganized: 14% within 5 km, 10% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Division No. 22, Unorganized’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
At 0.26% of the land a year, Division No. 22, Unorganized’s burn rate is high, many times the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
The nearer ring around Division No. 22, Unorganized is less wooded (77% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (84%).
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 Manitoba · highest of 190
Flin Flon (Part) burns fastest in Manitoba at 1.68% a year; Division No. 22, Unorganized, at 0.26%, ranks 7th of 190.
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.
Just 1.9% of Canada’s 2,610 towns burn fast enough for the high band where Division No. 22, Unorganized sits; 0.2% 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Division No. 22, Unorganized
Flood studies whose area touches Division No. 22, Unorganized, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
There is no study for Division No. 22, Unorganized on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 18% of towns in Manitoba have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Division No. 22, Unorganized is not among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Division No. 22, Unorganized.
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.”
Low seismic risk in Division No. 22, Unorganized: $0.004 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
At $0.004 per $1,000, Division No. 22, Unorganized carries 0.1 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Manitoba: Division No. 22, Unorganized’s $0.004 against a median of $0.006; Virden has $0.007.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nearly every one of Canada’s 2,611 towns (98%) expects more shaking damage than Division No. 22, Unorganized.
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Division No. 22, Unorganized.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
7.9% of homes tested around Division No. 22, Unorganized are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Measured across the Burntwood/Churchill health region: radon tests
Division No. 22, Unorganized’s area sits close to the typical Canadian town: 7.9% over the guideline, against 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around Division No. 22, Unorganized (7.9%) than in the typical town in Manitoba (12%), yet 0.7% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Division No. 22, Unorganized’s band of 5 to 10%; 26% sit 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.
Whatever Division No. 22, Unorganized’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 Division No. 22, Unorganized
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Division No. 22, Unorganized; Alert Ready carries the urgent ones to phones, radio and TV.
| 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Division No. 22, Unorganized, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Division No. 22, Unorganized faces
Practical steps for Division No. 22, Unorganized’s hazards, most pressing first.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- 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.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Division No. 22, Unorganized’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Division No. 22, Unorganized, 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 Division No. 22, Unorganized until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Division No. 22, Unorganized without grading them.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Division No. 22, Unorganized
Does Division No. 22, Unorganized flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Division No. 22, Unorganized (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Division No. 22, Unorganized?
7.9% of the 152 homes Health Canada tested around Division No. 22, Unorganized topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Division No. 22, Unorganized’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Division No. 22, Unorganized grades D for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Division No. 22, Unorganized?
About $0.004 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Division No. 22, Unorganized.
Is Division No. 22, Unorganized at risk of wildfire?
It is: 10% of the land within 25 km of Division No. 22, Unorganized has burned since 1986, the latest in 2025, which puts it in the high band that lowers Risk.
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).