Photo: Bates: Photographer · Public domainHigh radon around Glenella-Lansdowne: 35% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³
Wildfire isn’t Glenella-Lansdowne’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.001% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.005 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Hazard risk gives Glenella-Lansdowne a grade of B−, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Glenella-Lansdowne’s hazards
For Glenella-Lansdowne, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Glenella-Lansdowne faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Glenella-Lansdowne grades B− for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Glenella-Lansdowne with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
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 Glenella-Lansdowne: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Glenella-Lansdowne’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Glenella-Lansdowne burns at 0.001% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
The closest burn since 1986 lies 21 km from Glenella-Lansdowne’s homes, none within 5 km.
Little near Glenella-Lansdowne’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0.1% 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
In the top quarter in Manitoba: Glenella-Lansdowne ranks 31st of 190 at 0.001% 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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Glenella-Lansdowne burns, but slower than in the 7.5% above it.
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 Glenella-Lansdowne
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Glenella-Lansdowne: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Glenella-Lansdowne; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Manitoba, 18% of towns against 58% nationally, and Glenella-Lansdowne has none.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Glenella-Lansdowne’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Glenella-Lansdowne just $0.005 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.2 times the typical $0.030: Glenella-Lansdowne’s $0.005 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Neither high nor low in Manitoba: Glenella-Lansdowne’s $0.005 sits by the median of $0.006, while Virden reaches $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.
Glenella-Lansdowne 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 Glenella-Lansdowne.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Test for radon in Glenella-Lansdowne: 35% of area homes were over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Glenella-Lansdowne’s area, at 35%, 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 Glenella-Lansdowne, 35% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 1.8% 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.
Glenella-Lansdowne 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 Glenella-Lansdowne 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). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Assiniboine health region
Where to get warnings in Glenella-Lansdowne
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Glenella-Lansdowne; 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 Glenella-Lansdowne come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Glenella-Lansdowne faces
What to do about the hazards Glenella-Lansdowne faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Glenella-Lansdowne’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 Glenella-Lansdowne is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- 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 Glenella-Lansdowne.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Glenella-Lansdowne, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Glenella-Lansdowne
Does Glenella-Lansdowne flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Glenella-Lansdowne’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
Is radon a problem in Glenella-Lansdowne?
Around Glenella-Lansdowne, 110 survey homes were tested and 35% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How big is the earthquake risk in Glenella-Lansdowne?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Glenella-Lansdowne’s buildings lose $0.005 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Glenella-Lansdowne at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around Glenella-Lansdowne since 1986 (last in 2017); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
How is Glenella-Lansdowne’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Glenella-Lansdowne B−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).