Deer Lodge’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 12% of area homes over the radon guideline
Wildfire isn’t Deer Lodge’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned 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. Hazard risk gives Deer Lodge a grade of B+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Deer Lodge’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Deer Lodge: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Deer Lodge faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Deer Lodge: B+
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Deer Lodge with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
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.
Few fires near Deer Lodge: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Deer Lodge’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Deer Lodge at 0.000% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Little near Deer Lodge’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
Little or nothing burns around Deer Lodge in a typical year; 60 of the 189 towns in Manitoba share that, and Flin Flon (Part) leads 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.
Only 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; Deer Lodge, at a rounded zero, is far from them.
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 Deer Lodge
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Deer Lodge: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Deer Lodge, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Deer Lodge 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 mapping is shown for Deer Lodge 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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Deer Lodge just $0.006 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.2 times the typical $0.030: Deer Lodge’s $0.006 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Manitoba is $0.006; Deer Lodge, 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.
Deer Lodge is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 88% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 loss is to Deer Lodge’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Area behind the earthquake risk figures: the city of Winnipeg
Radon runs high around Deer Lodge: 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
the typical Canadian town has 6.6% over the guideline; Deer Lodge’s area has 12%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Deer Lodge’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.
Deer Lodge 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.
The survey sampled homes around Deer Lodge; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Deer Lodge
Alerts for Deer Lodge 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 Deer Lodge 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 Deer Lodge
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Lodge | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Silver Heights 7,883 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| King Edward 7,190 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Old Tuxedo 6,812 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Booth 9,016 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Tuxedo 4,295 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Varsity View 2,985 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Deer Lodge (low); Silver Heights comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Deer Lodge faces
What to do about the hazards Deer Lodge 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. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Deer Lodge.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Deer Lodge’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Deer Lodge takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Deer Lodge’s figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Deer Lodge
Is Deer Lodge at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Deer Lodge (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
Is radon a problem in Deer Lodge?
Around Deer Lodge, 66 survey homes were tested and 12% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How big is the earthquake risk in Deer Lodge?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Deer Lodge’s buildings lose $0.006 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is Deer Lodge’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Deer Lodge grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Deer Lodge flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Deer Lodge’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
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).