Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Waywayseecappo First Nation, 35% of tested homes have radon above the guideline
Fire seldom reaches Waywayseecappo First Nation: since 1986, 1.3% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.04% a year). 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. Waywayseecappo First Nation grades B− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Waywayseecappo First Nation’s hazards
For Waywayseecappo First Nation, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Waywayseecappo First Nation faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Waywayseecappo First Nation grades B− for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Waywayseecappo First Nation’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of 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.
Little of the land around Waywayseecappo First Nation has burned: 0% within 5 km, 1.3% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Waywayseecappo First Nation’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Waywayseecappo First Nation at 0.04% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
The 5 km ring around Waywayseecappo First Nation’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 15 km out.
Forest fuel is scarce around Waywayseecappo First Nation: 0% of the land within 5 km, 1.1% 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
The land around Waywayseecappo First Nation burns at 0.04% a year, the 21st highest rate of 190 towns in Manitoba; Flin Flon (Part) tops it 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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Waywayseecappo First Nation reads low, with 92% of them; only 7.5% rank higher.
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 Waywayseecappo First Nation
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Waywayseecappo First Nation: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Waywayseecappo First Nation, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Manitoba reaches 18% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Waywayseecappo First Nation.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Waywayseecappo First Nation.
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 Waywayseecappo First Nation: $0.005 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Waywayseecappo First Nation it is only $0.005, 0.2 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Waywayseecappo First Nation 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.
At the bottom of Canada’s range, Waywayseecappo First Nation has 96% of the 2,611 towns above it.
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 Waywayseecappo First Nation 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).
Test for radon in Waywayseecappo First Nation: 35% of area homes were over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Measured across the Assiniboine health region: radon tests
A higher share than most: 35% of tested homes around Waywayseecappo First Nation, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Waywayseecappo First Nation than in most towns in Manitoba: 35% over the guideline (12% is typical), 1.8% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Waywayseecappo First Nation 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.
Neighbouring homes in Waywayseecappo First Nation 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 Waywayseecappo First Nation
Alerts for Waywayseecappo First Nation 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 Waywayseecappo First Nation 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)
How Waywayseecappo First Nation’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waywayseecappo First Nation | Low | $0.005 | 35% | None listed |
| Rossburn 1,015 · 7.7 km | Moderate | $0.005 | 35% | None listed |
Rossburn has the most fire around it, a moderate band against Waywayseecappo First Nation’s low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Waywayseecappo First Nation faces
Practical steps for Waywayseecappo First Nation’s hazards, most pressing first.
- 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
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Waywayseecappo First Nation takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Waywayseecappo First Nation, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Waywayseecappo First Nation.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Waywayseecappo First Nation’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Waywayseecappo First Nation
Does Waywayseecappo First Nation flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Waywayseecappo First Nation, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
How is Waywayseecappo First Nation’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Waywayseecappo First Nation’s Hazard risk grade is B−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Waywayseecappo First Nation?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Waywayseecappo First Nation $0.005 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is Waywayseecappo First Nation at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Waywayseecappo First Nation’s low band (1.3% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
Is radon a problem in Waywayseecappo First Nation?
The area’s survey found 35% of 110 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Waywayseecappo First Nation.
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).