Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0North Point Douglas’ hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 12% of area homes over the radon guideline
Fire has left almost no mark near North Point Douglas: 0% of the land 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. Hazard risk gives North Point Douglas a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about North Point Douglas’s hazards
For North Point Douglas, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What North Point Douglas faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in North Point Douglas: B+
Two inputs always count for North Point Douglas, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near North Point Douglas: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where North Point Douglas’ residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
A burn rate of 0.001% a year keeps North Point Douglas in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
No fire has burned within 5 km of North Point Douglas’ homes since 1986; the nearest burn is 19 km away.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0.1% within 25 km, the land around North Point Douglas 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
Flin Flon (Part) burns fastest in Manitoba at 1.68% a year; North Point Douglas, at 0.001%, ranks 31st of 189.
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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around North Point Douglas burns, but slower than in the 7.5% above it.
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 North Point Douglas
Flood studies whose area touches North Point Douglas, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches North Point Douglas, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches North Point Douglas; 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for North Point Douglas.
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 North Point Douglas: $0.006 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
0.2 times the typical $0.030: North Point Douglas’ $0.006 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Neither high nor low in Manitoba: North Point Douglas’ $0.006 sits by the median of $0.006, while Virden reaches $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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (88%) face more earthquake damage than North Point Douglas.
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 North Point Douglas 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). · Earthquake risk published for the city of Winnipeg, not by town
Test for radon in North Point Douglas: 12% of area homes were over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
More homes than usual test high around North Point Douglas: 12% against 6.6% for the typical Canadian town. North Point Douglas 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 North Point Douglas 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.
One test in ten or more tops the guideline around North Point Douglas, as in 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 4.6% go 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.
Radon varies from house to house in North Point Douglas, so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in North Point Douglas
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for North Point Douglas; 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 North Point Douglas, 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 North Point Douglas’ neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Point Douglas | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| William Whyte 11,432 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Centennial 4,483 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Chalmers 12,384 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| North St. Boniface 3,358 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Luxton 3,047 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| St. John's 8,492 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
North Point Douglas’ low band tops its neighbours; William Whyte is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what North Point Douglas faces
What to do about the hazards North Point Douglas 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. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in North Point Douglas floods.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for North Point Douglas’ census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For North Point Douglas, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region North Point Douglas sits in.
Questions about flooding and hazards in North Point Douglas
Does North Point Douglas flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, North Point Douglas’ flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
Is radon a problem in North Point Douglas?
Around North Point Douglas, 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 North Point Douglas?
About $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for North Point Douglas.
Is North Point Douglas at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around North Point Douglas since 1986 (last in 2012); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
How is North Point Douglas’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives North Point Douglas B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).