Photo: Rob Swystun from Winnipeg, Canada · CC BY 2.025% of homes tested in Winnipeg Beach’s area are above the radon guideline
Wildfire is a moderate presence around Winnipeg Beach: 1.8% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.05% a year, short of the band that counts against Risk. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.004 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Winnipeg Beach grades B for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Winnipeg Beach’s hazards
For Winnipeg Beach, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Winnipeg Beach faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Winnipeg Beach: B
Two inputs always count for Winnipeg Beach, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
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.
Some fire around Winnipeg Beach: 1.8% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Winnipeg Beach’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
At 0.05% of the land a year, Winnipeg Beach’s burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Winnipeg Beach’s homes have had no fire within 5 km since 1986; the closest was 14 km away.
Little near Winnipeg Beach’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0.2% 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
Flin Flon (Part) burns fastest in Manitoba at 1.68% a year; Winnipeg Beach, at 0.05%, 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.
Winnipeg Beach is in the moderate band, which holds 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 2.1% 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 Winnipeg Beach
Flood studies whose area touches Winnipeg Beach, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Winnipeg Beach, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Winnipeg Beach; in Manitoba, 18% of towns have one, below Canada’s 58%.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Winnipeg Beach floods.
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 Winnipeg Beach: $0.004 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
0.1 times the typical $0.030: Winnipeg Beach’s $0.004 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Manitoba: Winnipeg Beach’s $0.004 against a median of $0.006; Virden has $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, Winnipeg Beach has 98% 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 Winnipeg Beach 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).
25% of homes tested around Winnipeg Beach are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Interlake health region
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Winnipeg Beach’s area, at 25%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Winnipeg Beach (25%) than in the typical town in Manitoba (12%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
One home in five or more tests over the guideline around Winnipeg Beach; 3.1% of Canada’s 2,611 towns are in that band and 1.5% 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.
Neighbouring homes in Winnipeg Beach 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 Winnipeg Beach
Alerts for Winnipeg Beach 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 Winnipeg Beach 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)
How Winnipeg Beach’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
The fire record around Dunnottar is a touch heavier than Winnipeg Beach’s, but the band is the same: moderate (here moderate).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Winnipeg Beach faces
What to do about the hazards Winnipeg Beach 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
- 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 Winnipeg Beach.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Winnipeg Beach, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Winnipeg Beach takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Winnipeg Beach’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Winnipeg Beach
Is Winnipeg Beach at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 1.8% of the land around Winnipeg Beach since 1986 (last in 2025); at moderate, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Is radon a problem in Winnipeg Beach?
Around Winnipeg Beach, 121 survey homes were tested and 25% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How big is the earthquake risk in Winnipeg Beach?
Expected earthquake damage in Winnipeg Beach comes to $0.004 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Winnipeg Beach’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Winnipeg Beach B, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Winnipeg Beach flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Winnipeg Beach’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
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).