Photo: Greg N · CC BY-SA 3.0Wildfire low, radon 12%: how Windsor Park stands on hazards
Wildfire isn’t Windsor Park’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned 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 Windsor Park a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Windsor Park’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Windsor Park: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Windsor Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Windsor Park grades B+ for hazard risk
The grade weighs Windsor 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: 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. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Windsor Park: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Windsor Park’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low: the land around Windsor Park burns at 0.001% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
No fire has burned within 5 km of Windsor Park’s 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 Windsor Park 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
In the top quarter in Manitoba: Windsor Park 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.
Windsor 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Windsor Park
Flood studies whose area touches Windsor Park, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
There is no study for Windsor Park on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 18% of towns in Manitoba have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Windsor Park is not among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Windsor Park.
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 Windsor Park: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Windsor Park’s $0.006 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.2 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Windsor Park shares its earthquake risk numbers with the rest of the city of Winnipeg.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Windsor Park’s $0.006 is close to the median in Manitoba, $0.006; Virden is highest 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.
88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Windsor 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 loss is to Windsor Park’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
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 Windsor 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.
the typical Canadian town has 6.6% over the guideline; Windsor Park’s area has 12%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Windsor 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.
4.6% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Windsor Park, in the 10–20% band with 22%.
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 Windsor Park; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Not measured by town: radon tests (the Winnipeg health region)
Weather and fire alerts for Windsor Park
Alerts for Windsor Park 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 Windsor Park 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)
How Windsor Park’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Park | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Southdale 8,210 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Niakwa Place 3,461 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Alpine Place 3,721 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Glenwood 6,617 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| St. George 4,254 · 3.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
| Norwood East 3,881 · 3.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 12% | None listed |
Nowhere around Windsor Park burns more: Southdale, the closest rival, is low to its low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Windsor Park faces
What to do about the hazards Windsor 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
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Windsor Park’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Windsor Park’s.
- 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 Windsor Park until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Windsor Park without grading them.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Windsor Park
Is radon a problem in Windsor Park?
In Health Canada’s survey, 12% of 66 homes tested in Windsor Park’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How is Windsor Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Windsor Park B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Windsor Park at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0% of the land within 25 km of Windsor Park has burned since 1986, the last in 2012, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
How big is the earthquake risk in Windsor Park?
About $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Windsor Park.
Does Windsor Park flood?
Nothing is listed for Windsor Park on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
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).