Flood mapping exists for Beddington Heights: 1 on record, latest by Government of Alberta
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Beddington Heights, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. For earthquakes Beddington Heights is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. About as many homes carry radon around Beddington Heights as elsewhere, 8.1% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Beddington Heights a grade of B+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Beddington Heights’s hazards
For Beddington Heights, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Beddington Heights faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Beddington Heights grades B+ for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for Beddington Heights, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
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 Beddington Heights has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Beddington Heights’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
In a typical year 0.000% of the land near Beddington Heights burns; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%, and both are low.
Beddington Heights’ homes have had no fire within 5 km since 1986; the closest was 9.4 km away.
Little near Beddington Heights’ homes can carry a forest fire; only 0% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0.7% within 25 km.
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 Beddington 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.
Only 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; Beddington Heights, at a rounded zero, is far from them.
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.
Beddington Heights is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Government of Alberta
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Beddington Heights: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching Beddington Heights is Government of Alberta’s, dated 2012; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nose and West Nose Creek Flood Hazard Study | Government of Alberta | 2012 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study sets Beddington Heights apart in Alberta, where 46% of towns have one (Canada: 58%).
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Beddington Heights’ homes stand in a flood zone.
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 Beddington Heights: $0.023 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Nothing unusual about Beddington Heights’ ground: $0.023 against a typical $0.030, 0.8 times.
Beddington 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); Beddington 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.
Neither high nor low for Canada: 54% of the 2,611 towns expect more damage than Beddington Heights.
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 Beddington 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 Beddington Heights: 8.1% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Radon tests for the Calgary Health Region
Near the middle for radon: Beddington Heights’ area 8.1%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Beddington Heights, 8.1% of tests topped the guideline, about the same as the typical town in Alberta (7.5%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
A middling share of high tests puts Beddington Heights with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, below 26% of them.
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 Beddington 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 Beddington Heights
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Beddington 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Beddington Heights come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Beddington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beddington Heights | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Huntington Hills 13,184 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Sandstone Valley 5,816 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Country Hills 3,702 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Harvest Hills 7,930 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Macewan Glen 4,718 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Thorncliffe 15,570 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
Nowhere around Beddington Heights burns more: Huntington Hills, 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 Beddington Heights faces
What to do about the hazards Beddington Heights faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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
- 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 Beddington Heights.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Beddington 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.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Beddington Heights takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Beddington Heights’ census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Beddington Heights
How is Beddington Heights’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Beddington Heights B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Beddington Heights?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Beddington Heights’ buildings lose $0.023 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Beddington Heights flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Beddington Heights; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
Is radon a problem in Beddington Heights?
Around Beddington Heights, 86 survey homes were tested and 8.1% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Is Beddington Heights at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0% of the land around Beddington Heights since 1986 (last in 2014); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the 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).