Hazards in Tyndall Park: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 12% of tested homes
For Tyndall Park, wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land 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. Hazard risk gives Tyndall Park a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Tyndall Park’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Tyndall Park: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Tyndall 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 Tyndall Park: B+
The grade weighs Tyndall Park’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
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. 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.
Few fires near Tyndall Park: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Tyndall Park’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
At 0.001% of the land a year, Tyndall Park’s burn rate is in the low band; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Tyndall Park’s homes came within 22 km, never inside 5 km.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Tyndall 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
Tyndall 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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Tyndall Park 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.
No flood study is listed for Tyndall Park
Flood studies whose area touches Tyndall Park, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
There is no study for Tyndall Park on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Manitoba, 18% of towns against 58% nationally, and Tyndall Park has none.
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 Tyndall Park’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.”
Little shaking expected in Tyndall Park: $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: Tyndall Park’s $0.006 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Tyndall Park ($0.006) matches the middle in Manitoba ($0.006), far from Virden’s $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.
88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Tyndall Park.
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 Tyndall Park’s 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). · Area behind the earthquake risk figures: the city of Winnipeg
Radon runs high around Tyndall Park: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
At 12% over the guideline, the area around Tyndall Park beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Winnipeg health region, with Tyndall Park one part of it.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Tyndall Park, 12% of tests topped the guideline, about the same as the typical town in Manitoba (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 Tyndall Park, 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Tyndall Park only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Tyndall Park
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Tyndall 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Tyndall Park, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Tyndall Park
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyndall Park | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Inkster Gardens 6,115 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Burrows-Keewatin 2,506 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| North Inkster Industrial 3,661 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Mandalay West 5,423 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Brooklands 3,114 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Weston 6,661 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Tyndall Park (low), with Inkster Gardens next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Tyndall Park faces
What to do about the hazards Tyndall 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, Tyndall Park 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 Tyndall Park.
- 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 Tyndall Park’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Tyndall Park’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Tyndall Park
Does Tyndall Park flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Tyndall Park’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How is Tyndall Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Tyndall Park grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Tyndall Park at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around Tyndall Park since 1986 (last in 2012); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Is radon a problem in Tyndall Park?
Around Tyndall Park, 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 Tyndall Park?
Expected earthquake damage in Tyndall Park comes to $0.006 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).