Meadowgreen faces fewer hazards than 91% of Canadian towns
Wildfire is rare near Meadowgreen: 0.6% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 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. Meadowgreen’s survey area, 6.6% over the radon guideline, is close to the typical town’s 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Meadowgreen a grade of A; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Meadowgreen’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Meadowgreen: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Meadowgreen faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Meadowgreen: A
Earthquake risk and radon make Meadowgreen’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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.
Little of the land around Meadowgreen has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0.6% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Meadowgreen’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Meadowgreen at 0.02% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
The 5 km ring around Meadowgreen’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 21 km out.
Around Meadowgreen the forest is thin or far off: 0% of the land within 5 km and 0% within 25 km is forest fuel.
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
La Loche burns fastest in Saskatchewan at 1.94% a year; Meadowgreen, at 0.02%, ranks 9th of 104.
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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Meadowgreen reads low, with 92% of them; only 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Meadowgreen
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Meadowgreen: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Meadowgreen, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Meadowgreen has no flood study on file; only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan do, against 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 Meadowgreen 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 Meadowgreen 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 Meadowgreen it is only $0.006, 0.2 times as much.
Figures for earthquake risk are published for the city of Saskatoon as a whole, not for Meadowgreen alone.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Meadowgreen ($0.006) matches the middle in Saskatchewan ($0.006), far from Weyburn’s $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.
Earthquakes cost less around Meadowgreen than in 88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns.
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 Meadowgreen’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).
6.6% of homes tested around Meadowgreen are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Source area for radon tests: the Saskatoon RHA
Meadowgreen’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
Radon runs lower around Meadowgreen than in most towns in Saskatchewan: 6.6% against 9.1%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Meadowgreen, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% are 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.
The survey sampled homes around Meadowgreen; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Meadowgreen
Alerts for Meadowgreen 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 Meadowgreen to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Meadowgreen’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowgreen | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| South West Industrial 5,297 · 0.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Pleasant Hill 6,088 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Fairhaven 6,536 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Mount Royal 5,292 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Westmount 2,872 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Massey Place 6,561 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
Meadowgreen’s low band tops its neighbours; Fairhaven is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Meadowgreen faces
Practical steps for Meadowgreen’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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Meadowgreen until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Meadowgreen without grading them.
- 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 Meadowgreen’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Meadowgreen’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Meadowgreen
Does Meadowgreen flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Meadowgreen, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is Meadowgreen at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Meadowgreen’s low band (0.6% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2023) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in Meadowgreen?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Meadowgreen $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is Meadowgreen’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Meadowgreen’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Meadowgreen?
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 Meadowgreen.
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).