Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Oxford House 24 faces fewer hazards than 91% of Canadian towns
Fire reaches the land around Oxford House 24 now and then: 8.7% within 25 km since 1986 (0.22% a year), below the high band. Seismic risk runs low: $0.005 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Radon around Oxford House 24 is ordinary for Canada: 7.9% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Oxford House 24 grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Oxford House 24’s hazards
For Oxford House 24, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Oxford House 24 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Oxford House 24: A
Earthquake risk and radon make Oxford House 24’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 Oxford House 24: 1% within 5 km, 8.7% within 25 km
Past fire around Oxford House 24’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The yearly burn rate around Oxford House 24 is 0.22%, above 0.000% for the typical Canadian town but under the high band.
Forest fuel is denser close to Oxford House 24 (84% within 5 km) than further out (75% 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
Oxford House 24 ranks 9th of the 190 towns in Manitoba for burn rate, at 0.22% a year; Flin Flon (Part) leads with 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.
Only 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Oxford House 24, and 2.1% sit 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Oxford House 24
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Oxford House 24: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Oxford House 24, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Oxford House 24 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 Oxford House 24 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 Oxford House 24: $0.005 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.005 per $1,000, Oxford House 24 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: Oxford House 24 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.
Nearly every one of Canada’s 2,611 towns (96%) expects more shaking damage than Oxford House 24.
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 Oxford House 24.
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 Oxford House 24: 7.9% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Oxford House 24’s area sits close to the typical Canadian town: 7.9% over the guideline, against 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Burntwood/Churchill health region, Oxford House 24 included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around Oxford House 24 (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.
Radon tops the guideline in a modest share of homes around Oxford House 24, a band holding 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% rank above.
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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Oxford House 24’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Oxford House 24
Alerts for Oxford House 24 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 Oxford House 24 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)
Get ready for what Oxford House 24 faces
Practical steps for Oxford House 24’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
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Oxford House 24.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Oxford House 24 sits in.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Oxford House 24’s included.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Oxford House 24 floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Oxford House 24
How big is the earthquake risk in Oxford House 24?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Oxford House 24 $0.005 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is Oxford House 24 at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Oxford House 24’s band is moderate, with 8.7% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2025), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in Oxford House 24?
7.9% of the 152 homes Health Canada tested around Oxford House 24 topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Oxford House 24’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Oxford House 24 grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Oxford House 24 flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Oxford House 24 (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
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).