Photo: ElatedCoder · CC BY-SA 4.0Hazards in Sargent Park: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 12% of tested homes
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Sargent Park, 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. Sargent Park grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Sargent Park’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Sargent Park: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Sargent Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Sargent Park: B+
Two inputs always count for Sargent Park, 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: 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.
Little of the land around Sargent Park has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Sargent Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Around Sargent Park fire takes 0.001% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Nothing inside 5 km of Sargent Park’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 22 km off.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Sargent Park: forest fuel is 0% within 5 km and 0% 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
Sargent Park 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.
Sargent Park 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.
No flood study is listed for Sargent Park
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Sargent Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Sargent Park, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Sargent Park; 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.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Sargent Park’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.”
Little shaking expected in Sargent Park: $0.006 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Sargent Park’s $0.006 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.2 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Sargent Park doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Winnipeg.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in Manitoba: Sargent Park’s $0.006 against $0.006; 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.
Earthquakes cost less around Sargent Park than in 88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns.
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Sargent Park’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
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 Sargent Park: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Sargent Park’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
Sargent Park’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, Sargent Park 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Sargent Park can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: the Winnipeg health region
Weather and fire alerts for Sargent Park
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Sargent Park; 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 Sargent Park, 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)
Hazards in the places around Sargent Park
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sargent Park | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Minto 5,830 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Daniel McIntyre 9,584 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| St. Matthews 5,699 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Weston 6,661 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Wolseley 8,127 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Spence 4,378 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
The neighbour with the most fire is Minto (low), still no more than Sargent Park (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Sargent Park faces
What to do about the hazards Sargent Park 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
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Sargent Park takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Sargent Park’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Sargent Park.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Sargent Park’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Sargent Park
How big is the earthquake risk in Sargent Park?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Sargent Park $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is radon a problem in Sargent Park?
In Health Canada’s survey, 12% of 66 homes tested in Sargent Park’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Sargent Park flood?
Nothing is listed for Sargent Park on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How is Sargent Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Sargent Park grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Sargent Park at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0% of the land within 25 km of Sargent Park has burned since 1986, the last in 2012, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
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).