Photo: Masalai · Public domainRadon is Lakeview’s main hazard: 25% of tested homes in its area top Health Canada’s guideline
Wildfire barely registers for Lakeview, at 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 Lakeview a grade of C+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Lakeview’s hazards
For Lakeview, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Lakeview faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Lakeview grades C+ for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Lakeview 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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Lakeview: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Lakeview’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The land within 25 km of Lakeview burns at 0.000% a year on average, the low band; the typical Canadian town: 0.000%.
Little near Lakeview’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0.1% 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 104
Among the 104 towns in Saskatchewan, La Loche burns fastest (1.94% a year); Lakeview 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Lakeview is among the many where the yearly burn rate rounds to zero.
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.
Lakeview is on the flood map inventory: 2 studies, latest by Water Security Agency
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Lakeview: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Water Security Agency and others have studied flooding in areas that include Lakeview: 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
Flood maps are thinner in Saskatchewan, 55% of towns against 58% nationally, but Lakeview has one.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Lakeview’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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.
Low seismic risk in Lakeview: $0.014 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.5 times the typical $0.030: Lakeview’s $0.014 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Saskatchewan expects $0.006 a year; Lakeview 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.
73% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Lakeview.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Lakeview is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Regina
Radon runs high around Lakeview: 25% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
the typical Canadian town has 6.6% over the guideline; Lakeview’s area has 25%. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Regina Qu'Appelle RHA, with Lakeview one part of it.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Lakeview 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 Lakeview; 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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Lakeview’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Lakeview
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Lakeview; 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. |
For fires near Lakeview, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Lakeview
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeview | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Cathedral Village 7,311 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Dewdney Place 3,021 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Downtown 4,282 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Hillsdale 6,792 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Albert Park 12,967 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Heritage 5,172 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Lakeview (low), with Cathedral Village next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Lakeview faces
What to do about the hazards Lakeview 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Lakeview’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Lakeview, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- 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 Lakeview.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Lakeview takes its 2007 health region’s share.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Lakeview
Is radon a problem in Lakeview?
Around Lakeview, 94 survey homes were tested and 25% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Lakeview’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Lakeview’s Hazard risk grade is C+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Lakeview?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Lakeview’s buildings lose $0.014 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Lakeview at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Lakeview’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does Lakeview flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Lakeview; 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).