Since 1986, fire has reached 21% of the land within 5 km of Pikangikum 14’s homes, as recently as 2019
That band is the one place wildfire counts: it can only lower Risk, and for Pikangikum 14 it does. Radon is higher than usual: 14% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Pikangikum 14 can’t get a Hazard risk grade: NRCan’s seismic model has no figure for it.
What stands out about Pikangikum 14’s hazards
For Pikangikum 14, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Pikangikum 14 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Radon
Flood study
Pikangikum 14 can’t be graded for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Pikangikum 14’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Pikangikum 14 is a First Nations reserve: no overall grade, no ranking.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Fire country: 30% of the land within 25 km of Pikangikum 14 has burned since 1986, 21% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Pikangikum 14’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
High: the land around Pikangikum 14 burns at 0.76% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
80% of the land within 5 km of Pikangikum 14 is forest fuel, close to the 78% 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 Ontario · highest of 872
First of 872 in Ontario: Pikangikum 14 at 0.76% a year, ahead of Sioux Lookout (0.16%).
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.
High is rare: 1.9% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Pikangikum 14 among them, with 0.2% higher still.
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 Pikangikum 14
Flood studies whose area touches Pikangikum 14, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The inventory has nothing for Pikangikum 14, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in Ontario, 69% of towns against 58% nationally, but none in the inventory touches Pikangikum 14.
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 Pikangikum 14.
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.”
Radon runs high around Pikangikum 14: 14% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
A higher share than most: 14% of tested homes around Pikangikum 14, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Northwestern Health Unit, Pikangikum 14 included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Pikangikum 14 (14%) than in the typical town in Ontario (4%); 1.9% went over 600.
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, Pikangikum 14 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.
Whatever Pikangikum 14’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Pikangikum 14
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Pikangikum 14; 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 Pikangikum 14, 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)
Get ready for what Pikangikum 14 faces
Practical steps for Pikangikum 14’s hazards, most pressing first.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- 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.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Pikangikum 14’s included.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Pikangikum 14 without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Pikangikum 14.
- 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 Pikangikum 14 until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Pikangikum 14
Is Pikangikum 14 at risk of wildfire?
Wildfire is Pikangikum 14’s main hazard, band high: 30% of the land within 25 km burned between 1986 and 2025.
How is Pikangikum 14’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
No: one of the inputs Risk needs is missing for Pikangikum 14, so it can’t be graded, though the figures it has are still shown.
Is radon a problem in Pikangikum 14?
The area’s survey found 14% of 210 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Pikangikum 14.
Does Pikangikum 14 flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Pikangikum 14, 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).