The Maples’ hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 12% of area homes over the radon guideline
Around The Maples, wildfire is practically absent from the record: 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. Hazard risk gives The Maples a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about The Maples’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for The Maples: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What The Maples faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
The Maples grades B+ for hazard risk
For The Maples, 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: 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.
Wildfire is rare near The Maples: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around The Maples’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.001% of the land a year, The Maples’ burn rate is in the low band; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
The Maples’ homes have had no fire within 5 km since 1986; the closest was 19 km away.
Forest makes up 0% of the land within 5 km of The Maples and 0.1% 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
In the top quarter in Manitoba: The Maples ranks 31st of 189 at 0.001% a year, with Flin Flon (Part) first 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.
The Maples 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 The Maples
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for The Maples: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Nationally, The Maples has no listed flood study; the municipality is the place to ask.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches The Maples; 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.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that The Maples 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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in The Maples 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 The Maples it is only $0.006, 0.2 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: The Maples 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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (88%) face more earthquake damage than The Maples.
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 model counts damage to The Maples’ buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
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 The Maples: 12% of area homes were over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
the typical Canadian town has 6.6% over the guideline; The Maples’ area has 12%. The Maples 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
The Maples’ 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.
More high tests than most: The Maples 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.
The survey sampled homes around The Maples; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for The Maples
Alerts for The Maples 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. |
Evacuation orders for The Maples come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around The Maples
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Maples | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Leila-McPhillips Triangle 3,824 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Amber Trails 9,256 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Mandalay West 5,423 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Leila North 3,966 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Inkster Gardens 6,115 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Garden City 6,794 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than The Maples (low); Leila-McPhillips Triangle comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what The Maples faces
Practical steps for The Maples’ 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. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of The Maples’ homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, The Maples takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 The Maples.
- 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 The Maples’.
Questions about flooding and hazards in The Maples
Is radon a problem in The Maples?
The area’s survey found 12% of 66 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in The Maples.
How big is the earthquake risk in The Maples?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in The Maples $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is The Maples’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
The Maples’ Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is The Maples at risk of wildfire?
Some, but The Maples’ low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2012) is short of the level that counts.
Does The Maples flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for The Maples, 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).