Wildfire low, radon 12%: how Munroe East stands on hazards
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Munroe East, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.001% a year. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Munroe East grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Munroe East’s hazards
For Munroe East, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Munroe East faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Munroe East grades B+ for hazard risk
For Munroe East, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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 Munroe East: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Munroe East’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
A burn rate of 0.001% a year keeps Munroe East in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
The closest burn since 1986 lies 16 km from Munroe East’s homes, none within 5 km.
Forest fuel is scarce around Munroe East: 0% of the land within 5 km, 0.1% 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
At 0.001% a year, Munroe East is near the top in Manitoba: 31st of 189, behind Flin Flon (Part) (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.
Munroe East is in the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 7.5% sit in moderate or 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 Munroe East
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Munroe East: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Munroe East, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Munroe East 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 is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Munroe East’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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 Munroe East: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Munroe East it is only $0.006, 0.2 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Munroe East 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 88% of its 2,611 towns sit above Munroe East.
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).
For Munroe East the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
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 Munroe East: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Munroe East’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
Munroe East’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.
The 10–20% band holds 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, Munroe East among them; 4.6% rank 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.
Neighbouring homes in Munroe East can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: the Winnipeg health region
Where to get warnings in Munroe East
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Munroe East; 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Munroe East, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Munroe East’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Munroe East | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| East Elmwood 3,611 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Eaglemere 3,631 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Valley Gardens 8,329 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Talbot-Grey 2,756 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Peguis 11,177 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Munroe West 2,532 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Munroe East (low); East Elmwood comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Munroe East faces
Practical steps for Munroe East’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 Munroe East.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Munroe East without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Munroe East’s included.
- 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 Munroe East until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Munroe East
Is radon a problem in Munroe East?
The area’s survey found 12% of 66 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Munroe East.
How is Munroe East’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Munroe East grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Munroe East at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Munroe East’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2012) is short of the level that counts.
Does Munroe East flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Munroe East, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
How big is the earthquake risk in Munroe East?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Munroe East $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).