Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainRadon is Uplands’ main hazard: 25% of tested homes in its area top Health Canada’s guideline
The national fire record shows next to nothing around Uplands, 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. Uplands grades C+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Uplands’s hazards
For Uplands, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Uplands faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Uplands grades C+ for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Uplands’ grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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 Uplands: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Uplands’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Uplands burns at 0.000% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Little near Uplands’ 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 104
Of the 104 towns in Saskatchewan, 54 have a burn rate that rounds to zero, Uplands among them; La Loche leads at 1.94% a year.
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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, Uplands is in the largest group, low (92%), and at its floor, while 7.5% rank higher.
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 Uplands
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Uplands: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
An empty entry for Uplands on the inventory isn’t proof of safety; ask locally for flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Uplands is not among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Uplands.
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.”
Little shaking expected in Uplands: $0.014 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Uplands it is only $0.014, 0.5 times as much.
Nobody publishes earthquake risk for Uplands alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Regina.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Uplands’ $0.014 tops the median in Saskatchewan, $0.006, though Weyburn reaches $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 Uplands.
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 Uplands.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Test for radon in Uplands: 25% of area homes were over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Uplands’ survey area reads 25% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Figures for radon tests are published for the Regina Qu'Appelle RHA as a whole, not for Uplands alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Uplands, 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.
One home in five or more tests over the guideline around Uplands; 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.
Neighbouring homes in Uplands can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Uplands
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Uplands; 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 Uplands, 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 Uplands
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uplands | Low | $0.014 | 25% | None listed |
| Northeast 9,670 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | None listed |
| Coronation Park 7,307 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Argyle North 9,971 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | None listed |
| Regent Park 2,876 · 3.2 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge 9,325 · 3.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Sherwood No. 159 1,431 · 3.7 km | Low | $0.012 | 25% | Yes |
Uplands’ low band tops its neighbours; Northeast is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Uplands faces
Practical steps for Uplands’ 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
- 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 Uplands.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Uplands is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Uplands’ 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 Uplands.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Uplands
Is radon a problem in Uplands?
The area’s survey found 25% of 94 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Uplands.
How big is the earthquake risk in Uplands?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Uplands $0.014 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is Uplands’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Uplands C+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Uplands at risk of wildfire?
No meaningful wildfire history near Uplands: 0% of nearby land since 1986, band low.
Does Uplands flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Uplands, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
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).