Rosewood faces fewer hazards than 91% of Canadian towns
Burn scars are few around Rosewood, with 0.6% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.02% a year). Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). About as many homes carry radon around Rosewood as elsewhere, 6.6% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Rosewood a grade of A; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Rosewood’s hazards
For Rosewood, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Rosewood faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Rosewood: A
Earthquake risk and radon make Rosewood’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: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. 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 Rosewood has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0.6% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Rosewood’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around Rosewood burns at 0.02% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Rosewood’s homes have had no fire within 5 km since 1986; the closest was 20 km away.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Rosewood: forest fuel is 0% within 5 km 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
Rosewood ranks 9th of the 104 towns in Saskatchewan for burn rate, at 0.02% 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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Rosewood 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.
No flood study is listed for Rosewood
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Rosewood: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Rosewood, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Rosewood 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.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Rosewood.
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.”
Little shaking expected in Rosewood: $0.006 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.006 per $1,000, Rosewood carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Rosewood 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.
Earthquakes cost less around Rosewood 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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Rosewood 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). · Area behind the earthquake risk figures: the city of Saskatoon
6.6% of homes tested around Rosewood are over the radon 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
6.6% of tested homes around Rosewood were over the guideline, much like the typical Canadian town at 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Against the typical town in Saskatchewan (9.1%), the area around Rosewood 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.
Radon tops the guideline in a modest share of homes around Rosewood, a band holding 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% rank above.
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 Rosewood, 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 Rosewood
Alerts for Rosewood 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 Rosewood 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 Rosewood’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosewood | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Hillcrest Management Area 3,004 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Lakewood Urban Centre 4,923 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Lakewood 14,880 · 2.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Eastview 7,536 · 3.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Nutana Urban Centre 5,926 · 3.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Greystone Heights 6,402 · 4.1 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Rosewood (low), with Hillcrest Management Area next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Rosewood faces
Practical steps for Rosewood’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
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Rosewood’s included.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Rosewood takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 Rosewood.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Rosewood.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Rosewood
How is Rosewood’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Rosewood’s Hazard risk grade is A, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Rosewood at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Rosewood’s band is low, with 0.6% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2023), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does Rosewood flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Rosewood (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Rosewood?
6.6% of the 76 homes Health Canada tested around Rosewood topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How big is the earthquake risk in Rosewood?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Rosewood’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).