Photo: Fakewindow · CC BY-SA 4.0A flood study covers Deer Run: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Government of Alberta
Fire has left almost no mark near Deer Run: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. For earthquakes Deer Run is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Deer Run is ordinary for Canada: 8.1% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Deer Run a grade of B+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Deer Run’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Deer Run: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Deer Run faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Deer Run: B+
Earthquake risk and radon make Deer Run’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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 Deer Run: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Deer Run’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Deer Run’s 0.000% is in the low band.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Deer Run’s homes came within 9.2 km, never inside 5 km.
Forest fuel is scarce around Deer Run: 0.5% of the land within 5 km, 0.8% 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
Among the 478 towns in Alberta, Wainwright burns fastest (1.43% a year); Deer Run is with the 386 near 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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, Deer Run is in the largest group, low (92%), and at its floor, while 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.
Deer Run is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Government of Alberta
Flood studies whose area touches Deer Run, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Government of Alberta holds the flood mapping that covers Deer Run (2025), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bow and Elbow River Flood Study | Government of Alberta | 2025 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study sets Deer Run 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 studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Deer Run.
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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Deer Run $0.023 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
At $0.023 per $1,000, Deer Run’s earthquake risk is about the typical Canadian town’s ($0.030; 0.8 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Alberta expects $0.013 a year; Deer Run expects $0.023, and Black Diamond $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.
Deer Run sits mid-range among Canada’s 2,611 towns: 54% 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 Deer Run’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). · Data for earthquake risk covers the city of Calgary
Some radon around Deer Run: 8.1% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Calgary Health Region
Around Deer Run, 8.1% of tested homes topped the guideline, near the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon around Deer Run is ordinary for towns in Alberta: 8.1%, beside a median of 7.5%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Deer Run’s band of 5 to 10%; 26% sit 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 Deer Run; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Deer Run
Alerts for Deer Run 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 Deer Run 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 Deer Run’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Run | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Deer Ridge 4,454 · 0.8 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Parkland 3,652 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| McKenzie Lake 11,966 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Queensland 4,452 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Douglasdale/Glen 13,333 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| McKenzie Towne 17,757 · 3.2 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Deer Run (low), with Deer Ridge next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Deer Run faces
Practical steps for Deer Run’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
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Deer Run’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- 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 Deer Run until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Deer Run’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Deer Run without grading them.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Deer Run
Is radon a problem in Deer Run?
8.1% of the 86 homes Health Canada tested around Deer Run topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How big is the earthquake risk in Deer Run?
Expected earthquake damage in Deer Run comes to $0.023 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Deer Run at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Deer Run’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2014), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How is Deer Run’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Deer Run grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Deer Run flood?
A flood study covers Deer Run on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
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).