On hazards, God's Lake 23 comes out behind 95% of Canadian towns
Fire is a regular visitor: 11% of the land within 25 km of God's Lake 23 has burned since 1986 (0.27% a year). Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.003 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon is about average around God's Lake 23: 7.9% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. God's Lake 23 grades D for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about God's Lake 23’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for God's Lake 23: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What God's Lake 23 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in God's Lake 23: D
Seismic risk and radon set God's Lake 23’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. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
3.3% of the land near God's Lake 23’s homes has burned since 1986, 11% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where God's Lake 23’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
High: the land around God's Lake 23 burns at 0.27% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
About as much forest grows next to God's Lake 23’s homes (93% within 5 km) as across 25 km (92%).
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; God's Lake 23, at 0.27%, 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.
High is rare: 1.9% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, God's Lake 23 among them, with 0.2% higher still.
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 God's Lake 23
Flood studies whose area touches God's Lake 23, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches God's Lake 23, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Manitoba, 18% of towns against 58% nationally, and God's Lake 23 has none.
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 God's Lake 23 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.”
Low seismic risk in God's Lake 23: $0.003 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.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in God's Lake 23 it is only $0.003, 0.1 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Manitoba peaks in Virden ($0.007); God's Lake 23, at $0.003, is below the median of $0.006.
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 (99%) expects more shaking damage than God's Lake 23.
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in God's Lake 23’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon about average around God's Lake 23: 7.9% over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
7.9% of tested homes around God's Lake 23 were over the guideline, much like the typical Canadian town at 6.6%. God's Lake 23 doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Burntwood/Churchill health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around God's Lake 23, 7.9% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³, under the median in Manitoba (12%); 0.7% were over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: God's Lake 23, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% 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.
The survey sampled homes around God's Lake 23; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for God's Lake 23
Alerts for God's Lake 23 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near God's Lake 23 are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what God's Lake 23 faces
Practical steps for God's Lake 23’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 God's Lake 23 without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; God's Lake 23’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- 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 God's Lake 23 until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around God's Lake 23’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
Questions about flooding and hazards in God's Lake 23
How is God's Lake 23’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
God's Lake 23’s Hazard risk grade is D, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in God's Lake 23?
The area’s survey found 7.9% of 152 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in God's Lake 23.
Is God's Lake 23 at risk of wildfire?
Wildfire is God's Lake 23’s main hazard, band high: 11% of the land within 25 km burned between 1986 and 2025.
Does God's Lake 23 flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for God's Lake 23, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
How big is the earthquake risk in God's Lake 23?
About $0.003 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for God's Lake 23.
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).