High radon around Fort Alexander 3: 21% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³
Fire reaches the land around Fort Alexander 3 now and then: 2.8% within 25 km since 1986 (0.08% a year), below the high band. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.004 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Fort Alexander 3 grades B for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Fort Alexander 3’s hazards
For Fort Alexander 3, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Fort Alexander 3 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Fort Alexander 3 grades B for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Fort Alexander 3’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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.
Fire reaches the land around Fort Alexander 3: 11% within 5 km, 2.8% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Fort Alexander 3’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
At 0.08% of the land a year, Fort Alexander 3’s burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
About as much forest grows next to Fort Alexander 3’s homes (54% within 5 km) as across 25 km (57%).
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
In the top quarter in Manitoba: Fort Alexander 3 ranks 17th of 190 at 0.08% a year, with Flin Flon (Part) first 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.
Moderate puts Fort Alexander 3 above most of Canada’s 2,610 towns, yet 2.1% rank high or very high and 5.4% share its band.
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 Fort Alexander 3
Flood studies whose area touches Fort Alexander 3, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
There is no study for Fort Alexander 3 on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Manitoba reaches 18% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Fort Alexander 3.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Fort Alexander 3’s homes are at risk.
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 Fort Alexander 3: $0.004 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.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Fort Alexander 3 it is only $0.004, 0.1 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Manitoba: Fort Alexander 3’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.
Fort Alexander 3 is among Canada’s quietest towns for earthquakes: 98% 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).
For Fort Alexander 3 the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
21% of homes tested around Fort Alexander 3 are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
A higher share than most: 21% of tested homes around Fort Alexander 3, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the North Eastman health region, Fort Alexander 3 included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Fort Alexander 3 than in most towns in Manitoba: 21% over the guideline (12% is typical), 1% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Fort Alexander 3 is in the 20–30% band, which holds only 3.1% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 1.5% are 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.
Neighbouring homes in Fort Alexander 3 can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Fort Alexander 3
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Fort Alexander 3; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Fort Alexander 3 come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Fort Alexander 3’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Alexander 3 | Moderate | $0.004 | 21% | None listed |
| Powerview-Pine Falls 1,311 · 6.2 km | Moderate | $0.005 | 21% | None listed |
| Alexander 4,032 · 11 km | Moderate | $0.004 | 21% | None listed |
The fire record around Alexander is a touch heavier than Fort Alexander 3’s, but the band is the same: moderate (here moderate).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Fort Alexander 3 faces
Practical steps for Fort Alexander 3’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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Fort Alexander 3 without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Fort Alexander 3, 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 Fort Alexander 3 until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Fort Alexander 3’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Fort Alexander 3
Is radon a problem in Fort Alexander 3?
The area’s survey found 21% of 100 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Fort Alexander 3.
How big is the earthquake risk in Fort Alexander 3?
Expected earthquake damage in Fort Alexander 3 comes to $0.004 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Fort Alexander 3 at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Fort Alexander 3’s moderate band (2.8% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
Does Fort Alexander 3 flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Fort Alexander 3, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
How is Fort Alexander 3’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Fort Alexander 3 grades B for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
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).