Radon is Harbour Landing’s main hazard: 25% of tested homes in its area top Health Canada’s guideline
Around Harbour Landing, 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 $0.014 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Harbour Landing grades C+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Harbour Landing’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Harbour Landing: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Harbour Landing faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Harbour Landing: C+
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Harbour Landing with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
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.
Little of the land around Harbour Landing has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Harbour Landing’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Around Harbour Landing fire takes 0.000% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Forest makes up 0.1% of the land within 5 km of Harbour Landing and 0% 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 104
Among the 104 towns in Saskatchewan, La Loche burns fastest (1.94% a year); Harbour Landing 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.
The low band holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Harbour Landing 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.
2 flood studies cover Harbour Landing, the newest from Water Security Agency
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Harbour Landing: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Water Security Agency and others have studied flooding in areas that include Harbour Landing: 2 studies, the latest from 2025.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regina Flood Mapping Study | Water Security Agency | 2025 | final |
| Regina | Water Security Agency | 2020 | under review · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Harbour Landing is one of the 55% of towns in Saskatchewan with a flood study on file, fewer than 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 Harbour Landing’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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Little shaking expected in Harbour Landing: $0.014 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Harbour Landing’s $0.014 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.5 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Harbour Landing doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Regina.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Saskatchewan expects $0.006 a year; Harbour Landing expects $0.014, and Weyburn $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.
Harbour Landing is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 73% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 Harbour Landing’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 Harbour Landing are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Harbour Landing’s area, at 25%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Harbour Landing than in most towns in Saskatchewan: 25% over the guideline (9.1% is typical), 4.3% over 600.
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 Harbour Landing; 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.
One home in Harbour Landing can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
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 Harbour Landing
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Harbour Landing; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Harbour Landing come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Harbour Landing
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harbour Landing | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Albert Park 12,967 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Lakeview 7,770 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Whitmore Park 6,603 · 3.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Hillsdale 6,792 · 3.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Cathedral Village 7,311 · 4.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Dewdney Place 3,021 · 4.9 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
Harbour Landing’s low band tops its neighbours; Albert Park is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Harbour Landing faces
What to do about the hazards Harbour Landing 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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Harbour Landing 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 Harbour Landing.
- 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 Harbour Landing’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Harbour Landing’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 Harbour Landing
Is Harbour Landing at risk of wildfire?
No meaningful wildfire history near Harbour Landing: 0% of nearby land since 1986, band low.
Is radon a problem in Harbour Landing?
In Health Canada’s survey, 25% of 94 homes tested in Harbour Landing’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How is Harbour Landing’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Harbour Landing grades C+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Harbour Landing?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Harbour Landing $0.014 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Harbour Landing flood?
There is flood mapping for Harbour Landing on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
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).