Stanley 157 faces more hazards than almost every Canadian town
Wildfire is Stanley 157’s dominant hazard: 55% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 1.52% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.002 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. More homes than usual carry radon here, 14% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Stanley 157 grades D− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Stanley 157’s hazards
For Stanley 157, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Stanley 157 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Stanley 157: D−
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Stanley 157 with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Fire country: 55% of the land within 25 km of Stanley 157 has burned since 1986, 37% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Stanley 157’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The yearly burn rate around Stanley 157 is 1.52%, against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town: the very high band.
About as much forest grows next to Stanley 157’s homes (80% within 5 km) as across 25 km (82%).
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 105
In the top quarter in Saskatchewan: Stanley 157 ranks 3rd of 105 at 1.52% 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.
Few places in Canada burn like the land around Stanley 157: the very high band holds 0.2% of the 2,610 towns.
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 Stanley 157
Flood studies whose area touches Stanley 157, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
An empty entry for Stanley 157 on the inventory isn’t proof of safety; ask locally for flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Stanley 157; 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 Stanley 157 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 Stanley 157 just $0.002 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
0.1 times the typical $0.030: Stanley 157’s $0.002 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Saskatchewan: Stanley 157’s $0.002 against a median of $0.006; 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.
Nearly every one of Canada’s 2,611 towns (100%) expects more shaking damage than Stanley 157.
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Stanley 157.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon runs high around Stanley 157: 14% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Stanley 157’s area, at 14%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Stanley 157 (14%) than in the typical town in Saskatchewan (9.1%); 1.2% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Stanley 157 is in the 10–20% band, with 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; only 4.6% 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.
Neighbouring homes in Stanley 157 can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: one figure for all of the Mamawetan/Keewatin/Athabasca health region
Where to get warnings in Stanley 157
Alerts for Stanley 157 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 Stanley 157 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)
Get ready for what Stanley 157 faces
What to do about the hazards Stanley 157 faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- 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.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- How close is the forest edge?
- 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 Stanley 157 sits in.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Stanley 157’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- 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 Stanley 157 floods.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Stanley 157, 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 Stanley 157
How big is the earthquake risk in Stanley 157?
Expected earthquake damage in Stanley 157 comes to $0.002 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is radon a problem in Stanley 157?
Around Stanley 157, 166 survey homes were tested and 14% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Does Stanley 157 flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Stanley 157’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How is Stanley 157’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Stanley 157 grades D− for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Stanley 157 at risk of wildfire?
More than most Canadian towns; Stanley 157’s very high band rests on 55% of nearby land burned since 1986 (most recently 2024).
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).