Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain26% of homes tested in Maple Creek No. 111’s area are above the radon guideline
Fire seldom reaches Maple Creek No. 111: since 1986, 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.004% a year). Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.005 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Maple Creek No. 111 grades B for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Maple Creek No. 111’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Maple Creek No. 111: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Maple Creek No. 111 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Maple Creek No. 111: B
For Maple Creek No. 111, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Maple Creek No. 111: 0.2% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Maple Creek No. 111’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The yearly burn rate around Maple Creek No. 111 is 0.004%, low beside 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Maple Creek No. 111’s homes came within 22 km, never inside 5 km.
Forest makes up 0% of the land within 5 km of Maple Creek No. 111 and 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 Saskatchewan · highest of 105
Maple Creek No. 111 burns at 0.004% a year, 45th of 105 towns in Saskatchewan; the leader, La Loche, reaches 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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Maple Creek No. 111 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.
Maple Creek No. 111 is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Water Security Agency
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Maple Creek No. 111: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Water Security Agency holds the flood mapping that covers Maple Creek No. 111 (2020), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Creek | Water Security Agency | 2020 | under review · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Saskatchewan reaches 55% of towns, Maple Creek No. 111 among them, below the 58% across Canada.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping is shown for Maple Creek No. 111 to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Maple Creek No. 111 just $0.005 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.005 per $1,000, Maple Creek No. 111 carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in Saskatchewan: Maple Creek No. 111’s $0.005 against $0.006; Weyburn reaches $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 Maple Creek No. 111.
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 Maple Creek No. 111’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 Maple Creek No. 111: 26% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
More homes than usual test high around Maple Creek No. 111: 26% against 6.6% for the typical Canadian town. Maple Creek No. 111 shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Cypress RHA.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Maple Creek No. 111, 26% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 1.9% over 600, against a median of 9.1% in Saskatchewan.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
One home in five or more tests over the guideline around Maple Creek No. 111; 3.1% of Canada’s 2,611 towns are in that band and 1.5% 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Maple Creek No. 111 can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Maple Creek No. 111
Alerts for Maple Creek No. 111 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 Maple Creek No. 111 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 Maple Creek No. 111’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Creek No. 111 | Low | $0.005 | 26% | Yes |
| Maple Creek 2,354 · 16 km | Low | $0.007 | 26% | Yes |
Maple Creek (low) has the heaviest fire record of Maple Creek No. 111’s neighbours, and Maple Creek No. 111 (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Maple Creek No. 111 faces
Practical steps for Maple Creek No. 111’s 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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Maple Creek No. 111.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Maple Creek No. 111’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Maple Creek No. 111 takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Maple Creek No. 111’s figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Maple Creek No. 111
Is Maple Creek No. 111 at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Maple Creek No. 111’s band is low, with 0.2% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2019), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in Maple Creek No. 111?
26% of the 106 homes Health Canada tested around Maple Creek No. 111 topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Maple Creek No. 111’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Maple Creek No. 111 B, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Maple Creek No. 111?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Maple Creek No. 111’s buildings lose $0.005 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Maple Creek No. 111 flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Maple Creek No. 111; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
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).