Pelican Narrows 184B’s hazards at a glance: a moderate wildfire record and 14% of area homes over the radon guideline
Fire reaches the land around Pelican Narrows 184B now and then: 79% within 25 km since 1986 (2.87% a year), below the high band. Seismic risk runs low: $0.002 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Pelican Narrows 184B grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Pelican Narrows 184B’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Pelican Narrows 184B: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Pelican Narrows 184B faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Pelican Narrows 184B grades B+ for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for Pelican Narrows 184B, 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. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Some fire around Pelican Narrows 184B: 79% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 71% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Pelican Narrows 184B’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Moderate: the land around Pelican Narrows 184B burns at 2.87% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Homes in Pelican Narrows 184B sit on open or built-up ground (1.3% forest fuel within 5 km); the wider 25 km holds 53%.
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
Pelican Narrows 184B has the highest burn rate of the 105 towns in Saskatchewan, 2.87% a year; next is La Loche at 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.
Only 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Pelican Narrows 184B, and 2.1% sit 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 Pelican Narrows 184B
Flood studies whose area touches Pelican Narrows 184B, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
There is no study for Pelican Narrows 184B on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Saskatchewan reaches 55% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Pelican Narrows 184B.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Pelican Narrows 184B floods.
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 Pelican Narrows 184B: $0.002 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.
Pelican Narrows 184B’s $0.002 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.1 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Pelican Narrows 184B’s $0.002 sits under the median in Saskatchewan, $0.006, and well under Weyburn’s $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 (100%) expects more shaking damage than Pelican Narrows 184B.
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 Pelican Narrows 184B’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).
Test for radon in Pelican Narrows 184B: 14% of area homes were 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 Pelican Narrows 184B, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Mamawetan/Keewatin/Athabasca health region, Pelican Narrows 184B included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Pelican Narrows 184B than in most towns in Saskatchewan: 14% over the guideline (9.1% is typical), 1.2% over 600.
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 Pelican Narrows 184B, 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.
The survey sampled homes around Pelican Narrows 184B; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Pelican Narrows 184B
Alerts for Pelican Narrows 184B 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Pelican Narrows 184B are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Pelican Narrows 184B faces
What to do about the hazards Pelican Narrows 184B faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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
- 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 Pelican Narrows 184B.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Pelican Narrows 184B takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Pelican Narrows 184B’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Pelican Narrows 184B’s figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Pelican Narrows 184B
How big is the earthquake risk in Pelican Narrows 184B?
About $0.002 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Pelican Narrows 184B.
Is radon a problem in Pelican Narrows 184B?
In Health Canada’s survey, 14% of 166 homes tested in Pelican Narrows 184B’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How is Pelican Narrows 184B’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Pelican Narrows 184B B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Pelican Narrows 184B flood?
Nothing is listed for Pelican Narrows 184B on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
Is Pelican Narrows 184B at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 79% of the land within 25 km of Pelican Narrows 184B has burned since 1986, the last in 2025, a moderate band that leaves Risk alone.
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).