Photo: Pearson Singbeil Montgomery · CC BY-SA 4.0Wildfire low, radon 12%: how Booth stands on hazards
Around Booth, wildfire is practically absent from the record: 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.006 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Booth grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Booth’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Booth: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Booth faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Booth grades B+ for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Booth’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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. Only 66 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Booth: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Booth’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The yearly burn rate around Booth is 0.000%, low beside 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Little near Booth’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0% 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
To three decimals the burn rate around Booth is zero, as for 60 of the 189 towns in Manitoba, while Flin Flon (Part) reaches 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Booth, burning rounds to zero.
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 Booth
Flood studies whose area touches Booth, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Booth; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Booth has no flood study on file; only 18% of towns in Manitoba do, against 58% across Canada.
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 Booth’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.”
Low seismic risk in Booth: $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.
At $0.006 per $1,000, Booth carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Figures for earthquake risk are published for the city of Winnipeg as a whole, not for Booth alone.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Booth 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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (88%) face more earthquake damage than Booth.
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).
The model counts damage to Booth’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon runs high around Booth: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Shared with the rest of the Winnipeg health region: radon tests
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Booth’s area, at 12%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Booth, 12% of tests topped the guideline, about the same as 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.
Booth is in the 10–20% band, with 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; only 4.6% are 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Booth can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Booth
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Booth; 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 Booth 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 Booth’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booth | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Silver Heights 7,883 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Heritage Park 5,817 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Sturgeon Creek 3,202 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Kirkfield 4,100 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Westwood 5,716 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Deer Lodge 3,691 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
Silver Heights (low) has the heaviest fire record of Booth’s neighbours, and Booth (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Booth faces
Practical steps for Booth’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. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Booth until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Booth without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Booth’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Booth’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Booth
Does Booth flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Booth (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How is Booth’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Booth grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Booth at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Booth (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
How big is the earthquake risk in Booth?
Expected earthquake damage in Booth comes to $0.006 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is radon a problem in Booth?
12% of the 66 homes Health Canada tested around Booth topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).