Photo: J Hazard · CC BY-SA 3.0Radon is Powerview-Pine Falls’ main hazard: 21% of tested homes in its area top Health Canada’s guideline
The burn rate around Powerview-Pine Falls is 0.06% a year (2.1% of the land within 25 km since 1986), a moderate band. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.005 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Powerview-Pine Falls grades B for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Powerview-Pine Falls’s hazards
For Powerview-Pine Falls, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Powerview-Pine Falls faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Powerview-Pine Falls: B
Two inputs always count for Powerview-Pine Falls, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
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 Powerview-Pine Falls: 7.4% within 5 km, 2.1% within 25 km
Past fire around Powerview-Pine Falls’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.06% of the land a year, Powerview-Pine Falls’ burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Within 5 km of Powerview-Pine Falls, 42% of the land is forest fuel; widen the ring to 25 km and it is 58%.
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; Powerview-Pine Falls, at 0.06%, ranks 21st 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.
Only 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Powerview-Pine Falls, 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 Powerview-Pine Falls
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Powerview-Pine Falls: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Powerview-Pine Falls on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 18% of towns in Manitoba have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Powerview-Pine Falls is not among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Powerview-Pine Falls.
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 Powerview-Pine Falls: $0.005 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.2 times the typical $0.030: Powerview-Pine Falls’ $0.005 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Powerview-Pine Falls 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.
Powerview-Pine Falls 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).
For Powerview-Pine Falls 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 Powerview-Pine Falls are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the North Eastman health region
the typical Canadian town has 6.6% over the guideline; Powerview-Pine Falls’ area has 21%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Powerview-Pine Falls, 21% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 1% 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.
Few of Canada’s 2,611 towns (3.1%) share the 20–30% band with Powerview-Pine Falls, and 1.5% sit above it.
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.
Whatever Powerview-Pine Falls’ area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Powerview-Pine Falls
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Powerview-Pine Falls; 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 Powerview-Pine Falls come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Powerview-Pine Falls
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powerview-Pine Falls | Moderate | $0.005 | 21% | None listed |
| Alexander 4,032 · 5.0 km | Moderate | $0.004 | 21% | None listed |
| Fort Alexander 3 2,300 · 6.2 km | Moderate | $0.004 | 21% | None listed |
Alexander burns a little more than Powerview-Pine Falls, in the same moderate band (moderate here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Powerview-Pine Falls faces
What to do about the hazards Powerview-Pine Falls faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Powerview-Pine Falls’ included.
- 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 Powerview-Pine Falls sits in.
- 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 Powerview-Pine Falls.
- 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 Powerview-Pine Falls floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Powerview-Pine Falls
Does Powerview-Pine Falls flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Powerview-Pine Falls’ flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How big is the earthquake risk in Powerview-Pine Falls?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Powerview-Pine Falls’ buildings lose $0.005 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is radon a problem in Powerview-Pine Falls?
Around Powerview-Pine Falls, 100 survey homes were tested and 21% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Powerview-Pine Falls’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Powerview-Pine Falls’ Hazard risk grade is B, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Powerview-Pine Falls at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 2.1% of the land around Powerview-Pine Falls since 1986 (last in 2025); at moderate, it neither helps nor hurts 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).