Photo: Drm310 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazard risk in Lakewood is lower than in 91% of Canadian towns
Burn scars are few around Lakewood, with 0.6% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.01% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.006 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. In Health Canada’s survey, 6.6% of homes tested in Lakewood’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%. Lakewood grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Lakewood’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Lakewood: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Lakewood faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Lakewood grades A for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Lakewood with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
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.
Few fires near Lakewood: 0% within 5 km, 0.6% within 25 km
Past fire around Lakewood’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The land within 25 km of Lakewood burns at 0.01% a year on average, the low band; the typical Canadian town: 0.000%.
The closest burn since 1986 lies 20 km from Lakewood’s homes, none within 5 km.
Little near Lakewood’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: Lakewood ranks 24th of 104 at 0.01% 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.
7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns burn fast enough to rank moderate or above; Lakewood stays low, with 92%.
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 Lakewood
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Lakewood: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Lakewood, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Lakewood; in Saskatchewan, 55% of towns have one, below Canada’s 58%.
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 Lakewood 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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Lakewood just $0.006 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.2 times the typical $0.030: Lakewood’s $0.006 is low for Canada.
Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Saskatoon, with Lakewood one part of it.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Saskatchewan is $0.006; Lakewood, 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.
Lakewood 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).
The loss is to Lakewood’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
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 Lakewood: 6.6% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
At 6.6% over the guideline, the area around Lakewood is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around Lakewood (6.6%) than in the typical town in Saskatchewan (9.1%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Lakewood 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.
The survey sampled homes around Lakewood; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: the Saskatoon RHA
Weather and fire alerts for Lakewood
Alerts for Lakewood 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Lakewood are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Lakewood’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakewood | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Greystone Heights 6,402 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Lakewood Urban Centre 4,923 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Hillcrest Management Area 3,004 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Nutana Urban Centre 5,926 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Brevoort Park 3,485 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Rosewood 8,427 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
The fire record around Greystone Heights is a touch heavier than Lakewood’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Lakewood faces
What to do about the hazards Lakewood 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 Lakewood’s.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Lakewood takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Lakewood’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Lakewood.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Lakewood
Is radon a problem in Lakewood?
Around Lakewood, 76 survey homes were tested and 6.6% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Does Lakewood flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Lakewood’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
Is Lakewood at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.6% of the land around Lakewood since 1986 (last in 2023); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
How is Lakewood’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Lakewood A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Lakewood?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Lakewood’s buildings lose $0.006 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
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).