Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Around Argyle North, 25% of tested homes have radon above the guideline
Fire has left almost no mark near Argyle North: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.014 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Argyle North a grade of C+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Argyle North’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Argyle North: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Argyle North faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Argyle North: C+
For Argyle North, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
Its place: #74 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #2,005 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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 Argyle North: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Argyle North’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Argyle North, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Argyle North: 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 104
Among the 104 towns in Saskatchewan, La Loche burns fastest (1.94% a year); Argyle North is with the 54 near zero.
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 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; Argyle North, at a rounded zero, is far from them.
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 Argyle North
Flood studies whose area touches Argyle North, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Argyle North; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Argyle North has no flood study on file; only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan do, against 58% across Canada.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Argyle North.
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.”
Low seismic risk in Argyle North: $0.014 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
At $0.014 per $1,000, Argyle North carries 0.5 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Regina, Argyle North included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.014, Argyle North is above the typical town in Saskatchewan ($0.006); Weyburn has the most 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 73% of its 2,611 towns sit above Argyle North.
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Argyle North’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
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 Argyle North: 25% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Argyle North’s survey area reads 25% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Argyle North doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Regina Qu'Appelle RHA.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Argyle North’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.
Few of Canada’s 2,611 towns (3.1%) share the 20–30% band with Argyle North, and 1.5% sit above it.
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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Argyle North only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Argyle North
Alerts for Argyle North 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Argyle North to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Argyle North’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argyle North | Low | $0.014 | 25% | None listed |
| Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge 9,325 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Regent Park 2,876 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Uplands 5,273 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | None listed |
| Coronation Park 7,307 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Twin Lakes 7,286 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | None listed |
| Sherwood/McCarthy 5,753 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Argyle North (low); Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Argyle North faces
Practical steps for Argyle North’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
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Argyle North takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Argyle North’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Argyle North.
- 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 Argyle North’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Argyle North
Is radon a problem in Argyle North?
25% of the 94 homes Health Canada tested around Argyle North topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is Argyle North at risk of wildfire?
No meaningful wildfire history near Argyle North: 0% of nearby land since 1986, band low.
How big is the earthquake risk in Argyle North?
Expected earthquake damage in Argyle North comes to $0.014 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Argyle North’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Argyle North C+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Argyle North flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Argyle North (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask 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).