Hazards in Amber Trails: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 12% of tested homes
Fire has left almost no mark near Amber Trails: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.001% a year. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Hazard risk gives Amber Trails a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Amber Trails’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Amber Trails: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Amber Trails faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Amber Trails: B+
Two inputs always count for Amber Trails, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #10 of 185 in Manitoba and #940 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. 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.
Little of the land around Amber Trails has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Amber Trails’ residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Amber Trails burns at 0.001% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Nothing inside 5 km of Amber Trails’ homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 19 km off.
Little near Amber Trails’ homes can carry a forest fire; only 0% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0.1% 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 189
The land around Amber Trails burns at 0.001% a year, the 31st highest rate of 189 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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Amber Trails among them, though its rate is above zero; 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 Amber Trails
Flood studies whose area touches Amber Trails, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Amber Trails, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Amber Trails; 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.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Amber Trails.
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 Amber Trails: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Amber Trails’ $0.006 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.2 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Manitoba is $0.006; Amber Trails, at $0.006, is right beside it, and Virden tops the list 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 88% of its 2,611 towns sit above Amber Trails.
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 Amber Trails’ 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). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Winnipeg
Radon runs high around Amber Trails: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Amber Trails’ area, at 12%. Nobody publishes radon tests for Amber Trails alone, so this card uses the figure for the Winnipeg health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Manitoba has 12% over 200 Bq/m³; Amber Trails’ 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.
More high tests than most: Amber Trails sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% 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.
One home in Amber Trails 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 Amber Trails
Alerts for Amber Trails 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Amber Trails to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Amber Trails’ neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Trails | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| The Maples 13,766 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Mandalay West 5,423 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Leila North 3,966 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Inkster Gardens 6,115 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Leila-McPhillips Triangle 3,824 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| North Inkster Industrial 3,661 · 2.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
The Maples (low) has the heaviest fire record of Amber Trails’ neighbours, and Amber Trails (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Amber Trails faces
What to do about the hazards Amber Trails 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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Amber Trails.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Amber Trails is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Amber Trails’ homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Amber Trails’.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Amber Trails
How big is the earthquake risk in Amber Trails?
Expected earthquake damage in Amber Trails comes to $0.006 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Amber Trails’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Amber Trails’ Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Amber Trails?
In Health Canada’s survey, 12% of 66 homes tested in Amber Trails’ area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Amber Trails flood?
Nothing is listed for Amber Trails on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
Is Amber Trails at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0% of the land within 25 km of Amber Trails has burned since 1986, the last in 2012, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
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).