Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0Currie Barracks’ hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 8.1% of area homes over the radon guideline
Wildfire isn’t Currie Barracks’ worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.000% a year). Earthquake risk in Currie Barracks is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.023 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Currie Barracks grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Currie Barracks’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Currie Barracks: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Currie Barracks faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Currie Barracks grades B+ for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Currie Barracks’ grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #282 of 474 in Alberta and #1,102 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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 Currie Barracks: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Currie Barracks’ residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
With 0.000% burned a year, Currie Barracks is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Currie Barracks’ homes came within 8.8 km, never inside 5 km.
Forest makes up 1% of the land within 5 km of Currie Barracks and 2.3% within 25 km, little for a forest fire to run through.
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
Little or nothing burns around Currie Barracks in a typical year; 386 of the 478 towns in Alberta share that, and Wainwright leads 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 Currie Barracks 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Currie Barracks
Flood studies whose area touches Currie Barracks, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Currie Barracks, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Alberta reaches 46% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Currie Barracks.
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 Currie Barracks.
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.”
Ordinary seismic risk in Currie Barracks: $0.023 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
0.8 times the typical $0.030: Currie Barracks’ $0.023 is ordinary.
Currie Barracks 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
Currie Barracks’ $0.023 tops the median in Alberta, $0.013, though Black Diamond reaches $0.048.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Currie Barracks’ 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).
The loss is to Currie Barracks’ buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon about average around Currie Barracks: 8.1% over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Currie Barracks’ area sits close to the typical Canadian town: 8.1% over the guideline, against 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Currie Barracks, 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.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Currie Barracks, 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.
The survey sampled homes around Currie Barracks; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Calgary Health Region
Weather and fire alerts for Currie Barracks
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Currie Barracks; 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Currie Barracks, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Currie Barracks
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Currie Barracks | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Garrison Woods 3,138 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Glamorgan 6,479 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Lakeview 12,799 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Altadore 7,675 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Glenbrook 10,185 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Richmond 4,811 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
The neighbour with the most fire is Garrison Woods (low), still no more than Currie Barracks (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Currie Barracks faces
Practical steps for Currie Barracks’ 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Currie Barracks until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Currie Barracks’ homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Currie Barracks’.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Currie Barracks without grading them.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Currie Barracks
How big is the earthquake risk in Currie Barracks?
About $0.023 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Currie Barracks.
Does Currie Barracks flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Currie Barracks (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How is Currie Barracks’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Currie Barracks grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Currie Barracks at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Currie Barracks’ band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2014), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in Currie Barracks?
8.1% of the 86 homes Health Canada tested around Currie Barracks 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).