Wildfire low, radon 12%: how Burrows-Keewatin stands on hazards
The national fire record shows next to nothing around Burrows-Keewatin, 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). Burrows-Keewatin grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Burrows-Keewatin’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Burrows-Keewatin: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Burrows-Keewatin faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Burrows-Keewatin: B+
For Burrows-Keewatin, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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.
Little of the land around Burrows-Keewatin has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Burrows-Keewatin’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
With 0.001% burned a year, Burrows-Keewatin is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
Fire has stayed at least 21 km from Burrows-Keewatin’s homes since 1986.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0% within 25 km, the land around Burrows-Keewatin gives a fire little to burn.
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
In the top quarter in Manitoba: Burrows-Keewatin ranks 31st of 189 at 0.001% a year, with Flin Flon (Part) first 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, Burrows-Keewatin 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Burrows-Keewatin
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Burrows-Keewatin: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Burrows-Keewatin, 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 Burrows-Keewatin.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Burrows-Keewatin’s homes are at risk.
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 Burrows-Keewatin just $0.006 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.006 per $1,000, Burrows-Keewatin carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Burrows-Keewatin’s $0.006 is close to the median in Manitoba, $0.006; Virden is highest 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.
88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Burrows-Keewatin.
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 Burrows-Keewatin’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). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Winnipeg
12% of homes tested around Burrows-Keewatin are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Burrows-Keewatin’s survey area reads 12% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Manitoba has 12% over 200 Bq/m³; Burrows-Keewatin’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 Burrows-Keewatin, 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Burrows-Keewatin only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Data for radon tests covers the Winnipeg health region
Weather and fire alerts for Burrows-Keewatin
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Burrows-Keewatin; 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Burrows-Keewatin, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Burrows-Keewatin’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burrows-Keewatin | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Shaughnessy Park 5,169 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Weston 6,661 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Brooklands 3,114 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Tyndall Park 12,393 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Burrows Central 5,565 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Inkster Gardens 6,115 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Burrows-Keewatin (low); Shaughnessy Park comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Burrows-Keewatin faces
Practical steps for Burrows-Keewatin’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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Burrows-Keewatin without grading them.
- 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 Burrows-Keewatin until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Burrows-Keewatin’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Burrows-Keewatin’s figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Burrows-Keewatin
Does Burrows-Keewatin flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Burrows-Keewatin (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is Burrows-Keewatin at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Burrows-Keewatin’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2012), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in Burrows-Keewatin?
12% of the 66 homes Health Canada tested around Burrows-Keewatin topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Burrows-Keewatin’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Burrows-Keewatin B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Burrows-Keewatin?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Burrows-Keewatin $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).