Photo: Nicewomanizer · CC BY-SA 3.0Albert Park/Radisson Heights is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Government of Alberta
No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 0.000% a year). For earthquakes Albert Park/Radisson Heights is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Albert Park/Radisson Heights is ordinary for Canada: 8.1% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Albert Park/Radisson Heights grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Albert Park/Radisson Heights’s hazards
For Albert Park/Radisson Heights, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Albert Park/Radisson Heights faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Albert Park/Radisson Heights: B+
For Albert Park/Radisson Heights, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
Its place: #282 of 474 in Alberta and #1,102 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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 Albert Park/Radisson Heights has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around Albert Park/Radisson Heights burns at 0.000% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ homes came within 16 km, never inside 5 km.
Around Albert Park/Radisson Heights the forest is thin or far off: 0% of the land within 5 km and 0.6% within 25 km is forest fuel.
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 Alberta · highest of 478
Fire has taken almost none of the land around Albert Park/Radisson Heights, as for 386 of the 478 towns in Alberta; Wainwright tops the list at 1.43%.
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 Albert Park/Radisson Heights 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.
A flood study covers Albert Park/Radisson Heights, from Government of Alberta: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Albert Park/Radisson Heights: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching Albert Park/Radisson Heights is Government of Alberta’s, dated 2025; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bow and Elbow River Flood Study | Government of Alberta | 2025 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Alberta, 46% of towns against 58% nationally, but Albert Park/Radisson Heights has one.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ homes are at risk.
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 Albert Park/Radisson Heights: $0.023 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Nothing unusual about Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ ground: $0.023 against a typical $0.030, 0.8 times.
Albert Park/Radisson Heights doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Calgary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Alberta peaks in Black Diamond ($0.048); Albert Park/Radisson Heights, at $0.023, sits above the median of $0.013.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ earthquake risk lands near the centre of Canada’s range; 54% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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).
For Albert Park/Radisson Heights the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Some radon around Albert Park/Radisson Heights: 8.1% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Measured across the Calgary Health Region: radon tests
Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ area, at 8.1%, is close to the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Alberta has 7.5% over 200 Bq/m³; Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ area has 8.1%, much the same.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Albert Park/Radisson Heights, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% 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 Albert Park/Radisson Heights 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).
Where to get warnings in Albert Park/Radisson Heights
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Albert Park/Radisson Heights; 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 Albert Park/Radisson Heights, 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)
How Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Park/Radisson Heights | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Forest Lawn 7,513 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Forest Heights 6,120 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Dover 10,440 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Marlborough 8,932 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Inglewood 4,380 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Mayland Heights 5,937 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
Nowhere around Albert Park/Radisson Heights burns more: Forest Lawn, the closest rival, is low to its low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Albert Park/Radisson Heights faces
Practical steps for Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ 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. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Albert Park/Radisson Heights is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Albert Park/Radisson Heights, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Albert Park/Radisson Heights.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Albert Park/Radisson Heights
How big is the earthquake risk in Albert Park/Radisson Heights?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ buildings lose $0.023 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Albert Park/Radisson Heights flood?
There is flood mapping for Albert Park/Radisson Heights on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Albert Park/Radisson Heights?
The area’s survey found 8.1% of 86 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Albert Park/Radisson Heights.
How is Albert Park/Radisson Heights’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Albert Park/Radisson Heights at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Albert Park/Radisson Heights’ low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2014) is short of the level that counts.
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).