Hazards in Meadowood: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 12% of tested homes
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Meadowood, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.001% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.006 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Meadowood grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Meadowood’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Meadowood: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Meadowood faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Meadowood: B+
Earthquake risk and radon make Meadowood’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. Only 66 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Little of the land around Meadowood has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Meadowood’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.001% of the land around Meadowood each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
No fire has burned within 5 km of Meadowood’s homes since 1986; the nearest burn is 23 km away.
Forest makes up 0% of the land within 5 km of Meadowood 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 Meadowood 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.
Some fire is mapped around Meadowood, but not enough to leave the low band, where 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are; 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 Meadowood
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Meadowood: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Meadowood, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Meadowood 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.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Meadowood’s homes are at risk.
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 Meadowood 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 Meadowood it is only $0.006, 0.2 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Meadowood at $0.006 beside a median in Manitoba of $0.006, with Virden on top 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.
Meadowood 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 Meadowood’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). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Winnipeg
Radon runs high around Meadowood: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Meadowood’s survey area reads 12% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Meadowood doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Winnipeg health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon around Meadowood is ordinary for towns in Manitoba: 12%, beside a median of 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: Meadowood 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Meadowood only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Meadowood
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Meadowood; 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. |
For fires near Meadowood, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Meadowood’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowood | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Worthington 6,093 · 0.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Royalwood 6,439 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Dakota Crossing 13,048 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Minnetonka 4,461 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Pulberry 7,723 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Niakwa Place 3,461 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
Worthington (low) has the heaviest fire record of Meadowood’s neighbours, and Meadowood (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Meadowood faces
Practical steps for Meadowood’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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Meadowood without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Meadowood’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Meadowood until then.
- 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 Meadowood’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Meadowood
How is Meadowood’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Meadowood B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is radon a problem in Meadowood?
The area’s survey found 12% of 66 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Meadowood.
How big is the earthquake risk in Meadowood?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Meadowood’s buildings lose $0.006 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Meadowood at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Meadowood’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2012) is short of the level that counts.
Does Meadowood flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Meadowood, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
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).