Around Ebb and Flow 52, 43% of tested homes have radon above the guideline
Burn scars are few around Ebb and Flow 52, with 1% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.03% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.005 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Ebb and Flow 52 grades B− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Ebb and Flow 52’s hazards
For Ebb and Flow 52, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Ebb and Flow 52 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Ebb and Flow 52 grades B− for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Ebb and Flow 52’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near Ebb and Flow 52: 9.6% within 5 km, 1% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Ebb and Flow 52’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Ebb and Flow 52’s 0.03% is in the low band.
Little near Ebb and Flow 52’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0.2% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0.4% 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 in Manitoba · highest of 190
The land around Ebb and Flow 52 burns at 0.03% a year, the 24th highest rate of 190 towns in Manitoba; Flin Flon (Part) tops it at 1.68%.
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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Ebb and Flow 52 among them, though its rate is above zero; 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.
No flood study is listed for Ebb and Flow 52
Flood studies whose area touches Ebb and Flow 52, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
An empty entry for Ebb and Flow 52 on the inventory isn’t proof of safety; ask locally for flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Ebb and Flow 52 has no flood study on file; only 18% of towns in Manitoba do, against 58% across Canada.
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 Ebb and Flow 52 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.”
Little shaking expected in Ebb and Flow 52: $0.005 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.
At $0.005 per $1,000, Ebb and Flow 52 carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Ebb and Flow 52 at $0.005 beside a median in Manitoba of $0.006, with Virden on top at $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.
Ebb and Flow 52 is among Canada’s quietest towns for earthquakes: 96% of the 2,611 expect more 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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Ebb and Flow 52.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon runs high around Ebb and Flow 52: 43% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Measured across the Parkland health region: radon tests
Ebb and Flow 52’s area, at 43%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Ebb and Flow 52, 43% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 12% over 600, against a median of 12% in Manitoba.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Ebb and Flow 52 is in the top band, 30% or more, with just 1.5% of Canada’s towns.
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.
A low area share in Ebb and Flow 52 doesn’t clear a house, nor does a high one condemn it: test.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Ebb and Flow 52
Alerts for Ebb and Flow 52 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 Ebb and Flow 52 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)
Hazards in the places around Ebb and Flow 52
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ebb and Flow 52 | Low | $0.005 | 43% | None listed |
| Alonsa 1,216 · 18 km | Low | $0.005 | 43% | None listed |
Alonsa (low) has the heaviest fire record of Ebb and Flow 52’s neighbours, and Ebb and Flow 52 (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Ebb and Flow 52 faces
Practical steps for Ebb and Flow 52’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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Ebb and Flow 52.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Ebb and Flow 52, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Ebb and Flow 52’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Ebb and Flow 52 is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Ebb and Flow 52
How is Ebb and Flow 52’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Ebb and Flow 52 grades B− for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Ebb and Flow 52?
Expected earthquake damage in Ebb and Flow 52 comes to $0.005 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Ebb and Flow 52 at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Ebb and Flow 52’s band is low, with 1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2021), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does Ebb and Flow 52 flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Ebb and Flow 52 (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Ebb and Flow 52?
43% of the 122 homes Health Canada tested around Ebb and Flow 52 topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).