Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainRadon is Swift Current No. 137’s main hazard: 26% of tested homes in its area top Health Canada’s guideline
Since 1986 almost nothing has burned near Swift Current No. 137: 0% of the land within 25 km, or 0.000% a year. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.005 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Hazard risk gives Swift Current No. 137 a grade of B, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Swift Current No. 137’s hazards
For Swift Current No. 137, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Swift Current No. 137 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Swift Current No. 137 grades B for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Swift Current No. 137’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Swift Current No. 137 has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Swift Current No. 137’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
With 0.000% burned a year, Swift Current No. 137 is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
Only 0% of the land within 25 km of Swift Current No. 137 is forest fuel, and 0% close in.
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
Little or nothing burns around Swift Current No. 137 in a typical year; 55 of the 105 towns in Saskatchewan share that, and La Loche leads 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.
The low band holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Swift Current No. 137 sits at its very bottom; only 7.5% are 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.
Saskatchewan Water Corporation, Water Security Agency has mapped flooding for Swift Current No. 137 (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Swift Current No. 137: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
A 1981 study by Saskatchewan Water Corporation, Water Security Agency covers Swift Current No. 137, and its map, not the inventory, shows the zones.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Swift Current | Saskatchewan Water Corporation, Water Security Agency | 1981 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Saskatchewan reaches 55% of towns, Swift Current No. 137 among them, below the 58% across Canada.
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 Swift Current No. 137.
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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Low seismic risk in Swift Current No. 137: $0.005 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.005 per $1,000, Swift Current No. 137 carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Saskatchewan is $0.006; Swift Current No. 137, at $0.005, 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.
At the bottom of Canada’s range, Swift Current No. 137 has 96% of the 2,611 towns above it.
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 Swift Current No. 137.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
26% of homes tested around Swift Current No. 137 are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Radon tests for the Cypress RHA
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Swift Current No. 137’s area, at 26%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Swift Current No. 137 than in most towns in Saskatchewan: 26% over the guideline (9.1% is typical), 1.9% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
One home in five or more tests over the guideline around Swift Current No. 137; 3.1% of Canada’s 2,611 towns are in that band and 1.5% 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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Swift Current No. 137’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Swift Current No. 137
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Swift Current No. 137; 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. |
For fires near Swift Current No. 137, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Swift Current No. 137
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swift Current No. 137 | Low | $0.005 | 26% | Yes |
| Swift Current 18,154 · 8.6 km | Low | $0.005 | 26% | Yes |
The neighbour with the most fire is Swift Current (low), still no more than Swift Current No. 137 (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Swift Current No. 137 faces
Practical steps for Swift Current No. 137’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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- 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, Swift Current No. 137’s included.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Swift Current No. 137 takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 Swift Current No. 137.
- 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 Swift Current No. 137.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Swift Current No. 137
Does Swift Current No. 137 flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Swift Current No. 137; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
How is Swift Current No. 137’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
137 B, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Swift Current No. 137 at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Swift Current No. 137 (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
How big is the earthquake risk in Swift Current No. 137?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Swift Current No. 137 $0.005 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is radon a problem in Swift Current No. 137?
26% of the 106 homes Health Canada tested around Swift Current No. 137 topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).