Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0Daniel McIntyre’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 12% of area homes over the radon guideline
Around Daniel McIntyre, wildfire is practically absent from the record: 0% 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). Daniel McIntyre grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Daniel McIntyre’s hazards
For Daniel McIntyre, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Daniel McIntyre faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Daniel McIntyre: B+
Earthquake risk and radon make Daniel McIntyre’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. 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 Daniel McIntyre: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Daniel McIntyre’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Daniel McIntyre at 0.001% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
The 5 km ring around Daniel McIntyre’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 22 km out.
Forest makes up 0% of the land within 5 km of Daniel McIntyre and 0% within 25 km, little for a forest fire to run through.
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 Daniel McIntyre 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, Daniel McIntyre 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 Daniel McIntyre
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Daniel McIntyre: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Daniel McIntyre, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Daniel McIntyre; 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 mapping is shown for Daniel McIntyre to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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 Daniel McIntyre: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.006 per $1,000, Daniel McIntyre carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Daniel McIntyre 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.
Earthquakes cost less around Daniel McIntyre than in 88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns.
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Daniel McIntyre.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Earthquake risk published for the city of Winnipeg, not by town
Radon runs high around Daniel McIntyre: 12% of tested homes 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 Daniel McIntyre’s area, at 12%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Daniel McIntyre’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.
Daniel McIntyre 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.
Whatever Daniel McIntyre’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Daniel McIntyre
Alerts for Daniel McIntyre 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Daniel McIntyre are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Daniel McIntyre
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel McIntyre | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| St. Matthews 5,699 · 0.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Spence 4,378 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| West Alexander 5,161 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Central Park 4,328 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Sargent Park 6,242 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Centennial 4,483 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
St. Matthews (low) has the heaviest fire record of Daniel McIntyre’s neighbours, and Daniel McIntyre (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Daniel McIntyre faces
Practical steps for Daniel McIntyre’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
- 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 Daniel McIntyre.
- 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 Daniel McIntyre sits in.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Daniel McIntyre’s included.
- 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 Daniel McIntyre floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Daniel McIntyre
How is Daniel McIntyre’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Daniel McIntyre B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Daniel McIntyre?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Daniel McIntyre’s buildings lose $0.006 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Daniel McIntyre flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Daniel McIntyre (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is Daniel McIntyre at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Daniel McIntyre’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 Daniel McIntyre?
12% of the 66 homes Health Canada tested around Daniel McIntyre 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).