Dakota Crossing’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 12% of area homes over the radon guideline
For Dakota Crossing, wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land 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 Dakota Crossing a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Dakota Crossing’s hazards
For Dakota Crossing, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Dakota Crossing faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Dakota Crossing: B+
Earthquake risk and radon make Dakota Crossing’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: 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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near Dakota Crossing: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Dakota Crossing’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low: the land around Dakota Crossing burns at 0.001% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
No fire has burned within 5 km of Dakota Crossing’s homes since 1986; the nearest burn is 23 km away.
Little near Dakota Crossing’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
Flin Flon (Part) burns fastest in Manitoba at 1.68% a year; Dakota Crossing, 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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Dakota Crossing 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 Dakota Crossing
Flood studies whose area touches Dakota Crossing, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
There is no study for Dakota Crossing on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Dakota Crossing 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Dakota Crossing.
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 Dakota Crossing: $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, Dakota Crossing carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Dakota Crossing shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Winnipeg.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Dakota Crossing runs at $0.006 a year, near the $0.006 of the typical town in Manitoba; 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 88% of its 2,611 towns sit above Dakota Crossing.
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 Dakota Crossing 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).
Radon runs high around Dakota Crossing: 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
Dakota Crossing’s area, at 12%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Dakota Crossing’s area, at 12%, is close to the median in Manitoba (12%).
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 Dakota Crossing, 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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Dakota Crossing’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Dakota Crossing
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Dakota Crossing; 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 Dakota Crossing, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Dakota Crossing
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Crossing | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| River Park South 12,304 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Royalwood 6,439 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Meadowood 6,991 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Fraipont 4,221 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Worthington 6,093 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Island Lakes 4,148 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
Nowhere around Dakota Crossing burns more: Royalwood, the closest rival, is low to its low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Dakota Crossing faces
Practical steps for Dakota Crossing’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
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Dakota Crossing’s included.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Dakota Crossing is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Dakota Crossing.
- 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 Dakota Crossing.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Dakota Crossing
How is Dakota Crossing’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Dakota Crossing grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Dakota Crossing at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Dakota Crossing’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 Dakota Crossing?
12% of the 66 homes Health Canada tested around Dakota Crossing topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Does Dakota Crossing flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Dakota Crossing (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How big is the earthquake risk in Dakota Crossing?
Expected earthquake damage in Dakota Crossing comes to $0.006 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).