Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0High radon around Northeast: 25% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³
Around Northeast, 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). Northeast grades C+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Northeast’s hazards
For Northeast, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Northeast faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Northeast: C+
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Northeast 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: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near Northeast: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Northeast’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Northeast at 0.000% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0% within 25 km, the land around Northeast gives a fire little to burn.
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
Little or nothing burns around Northeast in a typical year; 54 of the 104 towns in Saskatchewan share that, and La Loche leads 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Northeast 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Northeast
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Northeast: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Northeast on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Northeast is not among them.
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 Northeast’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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Northeast just $0.014 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.5 times the typical $0.030: Northeast’s $0.014 is low for Canada.
Northeast 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
Earthquake risk in Saskatchewan peaks in Weyburn ($0.033); Northeast, at $0.014, sits above the median of $0.006.
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 Northeast.
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Northeast.
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 Northeast are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Northeast’s area, at 25%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Northeast, 25% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 4.3% over 600, against a median of 9.1% in Saskatchewan.
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 Northeast, 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.
Whatever Northeast’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests published for the Regina Qu'Appelle RHA, not by town
Where to get warnings in Northeast
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Northeast; 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 Northeast, 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 Northeast
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast | Low | $0.014 | 25% | None listed |
| Uplands 5,273 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | None listed |
| Coronation Park 7,307 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| North Central 9,124 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Regent Park 2,876 · 3.0 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Heritage 5,172 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Downtown 4,282 · 3.4 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
Northeast’s low band tops its neighbours; Uplands is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Northeast faces
What to do about the hazards Northeast 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Northeast floods.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Northeast sits in.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Northeast’s included.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Northeast.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Northeast
Is radon a problem in Northeast?
Around Northeast, 94 survey homes were tested and 25% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Does Northeast flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Northeast’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How is Northeast’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Northeast 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 Northeast?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Northeast’s buildings lose $0.014 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Northeast at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Northeast since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
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).