Hazards in Alpine Place: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 12% of tested homes
Wildfire barely registers for Alpine Place, at 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.001% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.006 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Alpine Place grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Alpine Place’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Alpine Place: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Alpine Place faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Alpine Place: B+
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Alpine Place with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #10 of 185 in Manitoba and #940 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The radon share rests on 66 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Alpine Place: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Alpine Place’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Around Alpine Place fire takes 0.001% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
The 5 km ring around Alpine Place’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 21 km out.
Only 0.1% of the land within 25 km of Alpine Place is forest fuel, and 0% close in.
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 189
Flin Flon (Part) burns fastest in Manitoba at 1.68% a year; Alpine Place, at 0.001%, ranks 31st of 189.
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.
Alpine Place is in the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 7.5% sit in moderate or 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Alpine Place
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Alpine Place: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Alpine Place on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Manitoba, 18% of towns against 58% nationally, and Alpine Place has none.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Alpine Place’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Alpine Place just $0.006 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Alpine Place’s $0.006 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.2 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Alpine Place doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Winnipeg.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Alpine Place at $0.006 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.
Alpine Place is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 88% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 Alpine Place’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).
Test for radon in Alpine Place: 12% of area homes were over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Shared with the rest of the Winnipeg health region: radon tests
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Alpine Place’s area, at 12%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Manitoba has 12% over 200 Bq/m³; Alpine Place’s area has 12%, much the same.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
4.6% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Alpine Place, in the 10–20% band with 22%.
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.
One home in Alpine Place can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Alpine Place
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Alpine Place; 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 Alpine Place come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Alpine Place’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Place | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| St. George 4,254 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Glenwood 6,617 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Niakwa Place 3,461 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Worthington 6,093 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Windsor Park 12,523 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Riverview 4,649 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Alpine Place (low), with St. George next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Alpine Place faces
What to do about the hazards Alpine Place faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Alpine Place’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Alpine Place’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Alpine Place floods.
- 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 Alpine Place sits in.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Alpine Place
Does Alpine Place flood?
Nothing is listed for Alpine Place on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How big is the earthquake risk in Alpine Place?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Alpine Place’s buildings lose $0.006 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is Alpine Place’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Alpine Place B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Alpine Place at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0% of the land within 25 km of Alpine Place has burned since 1986, the last in 2012, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
Is radon a problem in Alpine Place?
In Health Canada’s survey, 12% of 66 homes tested in Alpine Place’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
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).