Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0High radon around Regina Beach: 25% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³
Around Regina Beach, wildfire is practically absent from the record: 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.007 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Regina Beach grades B− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Regina Beach’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Regina Beach: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Regina Beach faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Regina Beach: B−
Earthquake risk and radon make Regina Beach’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Regina Beach: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Regina Beach’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The land within 25 km of Regina Beach burns at 0.000% a year on average, the low band; the typical Canadian town: 0.000%.
Little near Regina Beach’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, 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
Fire has taken almost none of the land around Regina Beach, as for 55 of the 105 towns in Saskatchewan; La Loche tops the list 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.
The low band holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Regina Beach sits at its very bottom; only 7.5% are 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Regina Beach
Flood studies whose area touches Regina Beach, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Regina Beach, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Regina Beach; in Saskatchewan, 55% of towns have one, below Canada’s 58%.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Regina Beach’s homes are at risk.
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 Regina Beach just $0.007 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
At $0.007 per $1,000, Regina Beach carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Regina Beach ($0.007) matches the middle in Saskatchewan ($0.006), far from 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.
88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Regina Beach.
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 Regina Beach’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).
25% of homes tested around Regina Beach are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
A higher share than most: 25% of tested homes around Regina Beach, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Regina Beach’s area, at 25%, is above the median in Saskatchewan (9.1%), and 4.3% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Regina Beach is in the 20–30% band, which holds only 3.1% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 1.5% are 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 Regina Beach 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). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Regina Qu'Appelle RHA
Weather and fire alerts for Regina Beach
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Regina Beach; 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 Regina Beach, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Regina Beach
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regina Beach | Low | $0.007 | 25% | None listed |
| Longlaketon No. 219 1,192 · 13 km | Low | $0.008 | 25% | Yes |
| McKillop No. 220 1,023 · 17 km | Low | $0.007 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Lumsden 2,059 · 18 km | Low | $0.005 | 25% | Yes |
Among its neighbours Regina Beach has the most fire on record (low); Longlaketon No. 219 follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Regina Beach faces
Practical steps for Regina Beach’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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Regina Beach’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Regina Beach without grading them.
- 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 Regina Beach until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Regina Beach’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Regina Beach
Is Regina Beach at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Regina Beach’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does Regina Beach flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Regina Beach (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How is Regina Beach’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Regina Beach B−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Regina Beach?
Expected earthquake damage in Regina Beach comes to $0.007 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is radon a problem in Regina Beach?
25% of the 94 homes Health Canada tested around Regina Beach topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).