Photo: ArmedCalculator · CC BY-SA 4.0Hazard risk in Massey Place is lower than in 91% of Canadian towns
Burn scars are few around Massey Place, with 0.4% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.009% 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 Massey Place’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%. Massey Place grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Massey Place’s hazards
For Massey Place, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Massey Place faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Massey Place: A
The grade weighs Massey Place’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: 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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Massey Place has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0.4% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Massey Place’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Massey Place burns at 0.009% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Nothing inside 5 km of Massey Place’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 23 km off.
Little near Massey Place’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0.1% 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
Massey Place sits mid-table in Saskatchewan: 33rd of 104 towns, at 0.009% a year, well behind La Loche (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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Massey Place burns, but slower than in the 7.5% above it.
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 Massey Place
Flood studies whose area touches Massey Place, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Massey Place, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Massey Place; 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Massey Place.
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 Massey Place: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Massey Place’s $0.006 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.2 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Massey Place runs at $0.006 a year, near the $0.006 of the typical town in Saskatchewan; Weyburn has $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 Massey Place.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Massey Place is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Earthquake risk published for the city of Saskatoon, not by town
Some radon around Massey Place: 6.6% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · The radon tests numbers here cover the Saskatoon RHA
Massey Place’s area sits close to the typical Canadian town: 6.6% over the guideline, against 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Massey Place’s area, at 6.6%, is below the median in Saskatchewan (9.1%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
A middling share of high tests puts Massey Place with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, below 26% of them.
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.
Radon varies from house to house in Massey Place, so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Massey Place
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Massey Place; 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Massey Place, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Massey Place’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massey Place | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Dundonald 2,855 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Westview 2,670 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Confederation Park 5,771 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Mount Royal 5,292 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Hampton Village 9,119 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Pacific Heights 3,770 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
Massey Place’s low band tops its neighbours; Mount Royal is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Massey Place faces
What to do about the hazards Massey Place 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. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Massey Place’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- 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 Massey Place 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 Massey Place floods.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Massey Place, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Massey Place
Is radon a problem in Massey Place?
In Health Canada’s survey, 6.6% of 76 homes tested in Massey Place’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Massey Place flood?
Nothing is listed for Massey Place on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How big is the earthquake risk in Massey Place?
About $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Massey Place.
How is Massey Place’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Massey Place A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Massey Place at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.4% of the land within 25 km of Massey Place has burned since 1986, the last in 2023, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
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).