Photo: daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Haultain faces fewer hazards than 91% of Canadian towns
Fire seldom reaches Haultain: since 1986, 0.6% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.02% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.006 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Haultain’s survey area, 6.6% over the radon guideline, is close to the typical town’s 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Haultain a grade of A; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Haultain’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Haultain: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Haultain faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Haultain grades A for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Haultain’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #9 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #299 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Only 76 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Haultain: 0% within 5 km, 0.6% within 25 km
Past fire around Haultain’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Haultain at 0.02% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
The closest burn since 1986 lies 20 km from Haultain’s homes, none within 5 km.
Little near Haultain’s 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
In the top quarter in Saskatchewan: Haultain ranks 9th of 104 at 0.02% a year, with La Loche first 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.
Some fire is mapped around Haultain, but not enough to leave the low band, where 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are; 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.
A flood study covers Haultain, from Water Security Agency: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Haultain: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For Haultain the inventory points to Water Security Agency’s 2024 study, whose map is the one to check.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Saskatoon Flood Mapping Study | Water Security Agency | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Saskatchewan reaches 55% of towns, Haultain among them, below the 58% across Canada.
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 Haultain 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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Haultain just $0.006 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Haultain it is only $0.006, 0.2 times as much.
Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Saskatoon, with Haultain one part of it.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in Saskatchewan: Haultain’s $0.006 against $0.006; 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 88% of its 2,611 towns sit above Haultain.
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 Haultain’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).
Some radon around Haultain: 6.6% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Haultain’s area 6.6%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Saskatchewan is 9.1% over 200 Bq/m³; around Haultain it is 6.6%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Haultain’s band of 5 to 10%; 26% sit 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Haultain can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Saskatoon RHA
Weather and fire alerts for Haultain
Alerts for Haultain 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. |
Evacuation orders for Haultain come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Haultain
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haultain | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Buena Vista 5,777 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Grosvenor Park 6,240 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Central Business District 4,987 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Holliston 2,963 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Avalon 9,488 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Adelaide/Churchill 2,652 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Haultain (low); Buena Vista comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Haultain faces
Practical steps for Haultain’s 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?
- 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. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Haultain sits in.
- 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 Haultain floods.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Haultain’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Haultain’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Haultain
Does Haultain flood?
Haultain’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
How big is the earthquake risk in Haultain?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Haultain $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is Haultain’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Haultain’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Haultain at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Haultain’s low band (0.6% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2023) is short of the level that counts.
Is radon a problem in Haultain?
The area’s survey found 6.6% of 76 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Haultain.
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).