Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFew places are as safe from hazards as Dundurn No. 314: it beats 96% of Canadian towns
Burn scars are few around Dundurn No. 314, with 0.5% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.01% a year). Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.005 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Dundurn No. 314 is ordinary for Canada: 6.6% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Dundurn No. 314 a grade of A+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Dundurn No. 314’s hazards
For Dundurn No. 314, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Dundurn No. 314 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Dundurn No. 314: A+
Two inputs always count for Dundurn No. 314, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Only 76 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Dundurn No. 314: 0.5% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Dundurn No. 314’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
A burn rate of 0.01% a year keeps Dundurn No. 314 in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
The closest burn since 1986 lies 10 km from Dundurn No. 314’s homes, none within 5 km.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Dundurn No. 314: 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 Saskatchewan · highest of 105
Dundurn No. 314 sits mid-table in Saskatchewan: 31st of 105 towns, at 0.01% a year, well behind La Loche (1.94%).
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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Dundurn No. 314 reads low, with 92% of them; only 7.5% rank 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 Dundurn No. 314
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Dundurn No. 314: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Dundurn No. 314, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Dundurn No. 314 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 is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Dundurn No. 314’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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Dundurn No. 314 just $0.005 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Dundurn No. 314’s $0.005 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.2 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Dundurn No. 314 at $0.005 beside a median in Saskatchewan of $0.006, with Weyburn on top at $0.033.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nearly every one of Canada’s 2,611 towns (96%) expects more shaking damage than Dundurn No. 314.
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).
For Dundurn No. 314 the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
6.6% of homes tested around Dundurn No. 314 are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
At 6.6% over the guideline, the area around Dundurn No. 314 is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Dundurn No. 314 doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Saskatoon RHA.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Saskatchewan is 9.1% over 200 Bq/m³; around Dundurn No. 314 it is 6.6%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
26% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Dundurn No. 314’s 5–10% band, which holds 37%.
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 Dundurn No. 314’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 Dundurn No. 314
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Dundurn No. 314; 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 Dundurn No. 314, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Dundurn No. 314 faces
What to do about the hazards Dundurn No. 314 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Dundurn No. 314’s included.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Dundurn No. 314 is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Dundurn No. 314.
- 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 Dundurn No. 314.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Dundurn No. 314
Is Dundurn No. 314 at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.5% of the land within 25 km of Dundurn No. 314 has burned since 1986, the last in 2023, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
Is radon a problem in Dundurn No. 314?
In Health Canada’s survey, 6.6% of 76 homes tested in Dundurn No. 314’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Dundurn No. 314?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Dundurn No. 314’s buildings lose $0.005 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is Dundurn No. 314’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Dundurn No. 314 A+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Dundurn No. 314 flood?
Nothing is listed for Dundurn No. 314 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).