Photo: Drm310 · CC BY-SA 3.0Few places are as safe from hazards as Eastview: it beats 91% of Canadian towns
Little of the land around Eastview has burned: 0.6% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.01% a year. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Eastview is ordinary for Canada: 6.6% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Eastview grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Eastview’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Eastview: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Eastview faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Eastview: A
The grade weighs Eastview’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
Its place: #9 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #299 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The radon share rests on 76 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Eastview: 0.6% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Eastview’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Eastview’s 0.01% is in the low band.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Eastview’s homes came within 19 km, never inside 5 km.
Forest fuel is scarce around Eastview: 0% of the land within 5 km, 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
Eastview ranks 24th of the 104 towns in Saskatchewan for burn rate, at 0.01% a year; La Loche leads with 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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Eastview among them, though its rate is above zero; 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 Eastview
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Eastview: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Eastview, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Saskatchewan reaches 55% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Eastview.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Eastview floods.
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 Eastview: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.2 times the typical $0.030: Eastview’s $0.006 is low for Canada.
Figures for earthquake risk are published for the city of Saskatoon as a whole, not for Eastview alone.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Saskatchewan is $0.006; Eastview, at $0.006, is right beside it, and Weyburn tops the list 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.
Eastview is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 88% 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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Eastview’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 about average around Eastview: 6.6% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Saskatoon RHA
At 6.6% over the guideline, the area around Eastview is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Against the typical town in Saskatchewan (9.1%), the area around Eastview has fewer high tests: 6.6%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Eastview is in the 5–10% band with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% have more.
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 Eastview 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).
Weather and fire alerts for Eastview
Alerts for Eastview 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 Eastview to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Eastview
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastview | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Nutana Urban Centre 5,926 · 0.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Nutana Park 3,045 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Brevoort Park 3,485 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Stonebridge 15,230 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Holliston 2,963 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Lakewood Urban Centre 4,923 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
Nutana Urban Centre burns a little more than Eastview, in the same low band (low here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Eastview faces
What to do about the hazards Eastview 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
- 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 Eastview’s.
- 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 Eastview.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Eastview’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Eastview is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Eastview
How big is the earthquake risk in Eastview?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Eastview’s buildings lose $0.006 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is radon a problem in Eastview?
Around Eastview, 76 survey homes were tested and 6.6% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Eastview’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Eastview grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Eastview flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Eastview’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
Is Eastview at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.6% of the land around Eastview since 1986 (last in 2023); at low, it neither helps nor hurts 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).