Leaving a home vacant in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan winters are long, cold and windy, and the wind is the part that catches people out. Drifting snow can block access to a property entirely, and wind chill accelerates heat loss from a building envelope in ways that raise freeze risk beyond what the air temperature alone suggests.

Rural properties face the additional problem that access roads may be impassable for extended periods, meaning a property cannot be reached even if someone wants to.

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Vacant-property risks in Saskatchewan

• Sustained deep cold over long winters with high freeze risk in unheated buildings.
• Extreme wind and drifting snow blocking access to properties.
• Rural access roads impassable for extended periods.
• Spring melt over frozen ground producing overland flooding.
• Some of the highest residential radon concentrations in Canada.