Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainWeyburn No. 67 is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Water Security Agency
Wildfire isn’t Weyburn No. 67’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.000% a year). Shaking is about as much of a worry in Weyburn No. 67 as in most places, at $0.031 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon is higher than usual: 14% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Weyburn No. 67 a grade of C, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Weyburn No. 67’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Weyburn No. 67: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Weyburn No. 67 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Weyburn No. 67: C
For Weyburn No. 67, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Weyburn No. 67: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Weyburn No. 67’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Weyburn No. 67, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0% within 25 km, the land around Weyburn No. 67 gives a fire little to burn.
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
La Loche has the highest burn rate in Saskatchewan, 1.94% a year; around Weyburn No. 67, as around 55 of the 105 towns, it rounds to zero.
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.
Like most of Canada’s 2,610 towns (92%), Weyburn No. 67 is in the low band, with a burn rate of zero to three decimals; 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.
Water Security Agency has mapped flooding for Weyburn No. 67 (1 study)
Flood studies whose area touches Weyburn No. 67, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Water Security Agency holds the flood mapping that covers Weyburn No. 67 (2023), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Weyburn Flood Mapping Study | Water Security Agency | 2023 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Saskatchewan, 55% of towns against 58% nationally, but Weyburn No. 67 has one.
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 Weyburn No. 67 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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Expected shaking damage in Weyburn No. 67: $0.031 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Weyburn No. 67’s $0.031 matches the typical town’s $0.030.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Weyburn No. 67’s $0.031 tops the median in Saskatchewan, $0.006, though Weyburn reaches $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.
Weyburn No. 67 sits mid-range among Canada’s 2,611 towns: 48% expect more shaking damage.
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Weyburn No. 67’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
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 Weyburn No. 67: 14% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
A higher share than most: 14% of tested homes around Weyburn No. 67, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Weyburn No. 67 than in most towns in Saskatchewan: 14% against 9.1%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Weyburn No. 67 sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Weyburn No. 67 can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: the Sun Country RHA
Weather and fire alerts for Weyburn No. 67
Alerts for Weyburn No. 67 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 Weyburn No. 67 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)
How Weyburn No. 67’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weyburn No. 67 | Low | $0.031 | 14% | Yes |
| Weyburn 11,871 · 5.1 km | Low | $0.033 | 14% | Yes |
The neighbour with the most fire is Weyburn (low), still no more than Weyburn No. 67 (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Weyburn No. 67 faces
Practical steps for Weyburn No. 67’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
- 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 Weyburn No. 67 sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Weyburn No. 67’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Weyburn No. 67’s figure is its subdivision’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 Weyburn No. 67 floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Weyburn No. 67
How big is the earthquake risk in Weyburn No. 67?
Expected earthquake damage in Weyburn No. 67 comes to $0.031 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Weyburn No. 67’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Weyburn No. 67 C, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Weyburn No. 67 flood?
Weyburn No. 67’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
Is radon a problem in Weyburn No. 67?
The area’s survey found 14% of 116 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Weyburn No. 67.
Is Weyburn No. 67 at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Weyburn No. 67’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
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).