Wildfire low, radon 12%: how Inkster-Faraday stands on hazards
Since 1986 almost nothing has burned near Inkster-Faraday: 0% of the land within 25 km, or 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 Inkster-Faraday a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Inkster-Faraday’s hazards
For Inkster-Faraday, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Inkster-Faraday faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Inkster-Faraday: B+
Seismic risk and radon set Inkster-Faraday’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. Only 66 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Inkster-Faraday: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Inkster-Faraday’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Inkster-Faraday at 0.001% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Nothing inside 5 km of Inkster-Faraday’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 19 km off.
Only 0.1% of the land within 25 km of Inkster-Faraday is forest fuel, and 0% close in.
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 Inkster-Faraday 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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Inkster-Faraday reads low, with 92% of them; only 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 Inkster-Faraday
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Inkster-Faraday: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Inkster-Faraday on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Manitoba reaches 18% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Inkster-Faraday.
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 Inkster-Faraday 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.”
Little shaking expected in Inkster-Faraday: $0.006 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.006 per $1,000, Inkster-Faraday carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Figures for earthquake risk are published for the city of Winnipeg as a whole, not for Inkster-Faraday alone.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Inkster-Faraday ($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.
88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Inkster-Faraday.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Inkster-Faraday is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
12% of homes tested around Inkster-Faraday are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Measured across the Winnipeg health region: radon tests
Inkster-Faraday’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
Around Inkster-Faraday, 12% of tests topped the guideline, about the same as the typical town 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 Inkster-Faraday, 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.
A low area share in Inkster-Faraday doesn’t clear a house, nor does a high one condemn it: test.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Inkster-Faraday
Alerts for Inkster-Faraday 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Inkster-Faraday to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Inkster-Faraday’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkster-Faraday | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Robertson 5,090 · 0.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| St. John's 8,492 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Burrows Central 5,565 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| William Whyte 11,432 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Jefferson 11,524 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Garden City 6,794 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
Robertson (low) has the heaviest fire record of Inkster-Faraday’s neighbours, and Inkster-Faraday (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Inkster-Faraday faces
Practical steps for Inkster-Faraday’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
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Inkster-Faraday is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- 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 Inkster-Faraday.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Inkster-Faraday, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Inkster-Faraday’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Inkster-Faraday
How is Inkster-Faraday’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Inkster-Faraday grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Inkster-Faraday?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Inkster-Faraday’s buildings lose $0.006 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Inkster-Faraday flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Inkster-Faraday (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Inkster-Faraday?
12% of the 66 homes Health Canada tested around Inkster-Faraday topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is Inkster-Faraday at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Inkster-Faraday’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.
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).