Hazards in Fraipont: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 12% of tested homes
Wildfire isn’t Fraipont’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned 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). Fraipont grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Fraipont’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Fraipont: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Fraipont faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Fraipont: B+
Seismic risk and radon set Fraipont’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of 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.
Wildfire is rare near Fraipont: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Fraipont’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Around Fraipont fire takes 0.001% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Fire has stayed at least 22 km from Fraipont’s homes since 1986.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0% within 25 km, the land around Fraipont 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
Fraipont ranks 31st of the 189 towns in Manitoba for burn rate, at 0.001% a year; Flin Flon (Part) leads with 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.
7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns burn fast enough to rank moderate or above; Fraipont stays low, with 92%.
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 Fraipont
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Fraipont: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Fraipont, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Fraipont; 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.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Fraipont floods.
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 Fraipont just $0.006 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Fraipont it is only $0.006, 0.2 times as much.
For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Winnipeg, Fraipont included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Fraipont ($0.006) matches the middle in Manitoba ($0.006), far from Virden’s $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 Fraipont.
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 Fraipont’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 Fraipont: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · The radon tests numbers here cover the Winnipeg health region
At 12% over the guideline, the area around Fraipont beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fraipont’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.
More high tests than most: Fraipont sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% above.
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 share describes the area, not a house: in Fraipont as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Fraipont
Alerts for Fraipont 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. |
Evacuation orders for Fraipont come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Fraipont
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraipont | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Island Lakes 4,148 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Royalwood 6,439 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Sage Creek 7,391 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Dakota Crossing 13,048 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Meadowood 6,991 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Southdale 8,210 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
Fraipont’s low band tops its neighbours; Island Lakes is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Fraipont faces
Practical steps for Fraipont’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. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Fraipont’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Fraipont’s.
- 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 Fraipont.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Fraipont is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Fraipont
How big is the earthquake risk in Fraipont?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Fraipont $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Fraipont flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Fraipont, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is radon a problem in Fraipont?
The area’s survey found 12% of 66 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Fraipont.
Is Fraipont at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Fraipont’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2012) is short of the level that counts.
How is Fraipont’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Fraipont grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
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).