Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFlood mapping exists for Fish Creek Park: 1 on record, latest by Government of Alberta
Wildfire is rare near Fish Creek Park: 0% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.000% a year. Seismic risk in Fish Creek Park sits near the middle: $0.023 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Radon is about average around Fish Creek Park: 8.1% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Fish Creek Park grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Fish Creek Park’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Fish Creek Park: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Fish Creek Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Fish Creek Park grades B+ for hazard risk
For Fish Creek Park, 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: 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 Fish Creek Park: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0.1% within 5 km
Past fire around Fish Creek Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
A burn rate of 0.000% a year keeps Fish Creek Park in the low band (the typical Canadian town: 0.000%).
Little near Fish Creek Park’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 1.4% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 2.7% 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
Wainwright has the highest burn rate in Alberta, 1.43% a year; around Fish Creek Park, as around 386 of the 478 towns, it rounds to 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Fish Creek Park is among the many where the yearly burn rate rounds to zero.
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.
Fish Creek Park is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Government of Alberta
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Fish Creek Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
One study on the inventory touches Fish Creek Park, Government of Alberta’s from 2025, and its area can be large, so it says a map exists, not that the town floods.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bow and Elbow River Flood Study | Government of Alberta | 2025 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Alberta reaches 46% of towns, Fish Creek Park among them, below the 58% across Canada.
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 Fish Creek Park’s 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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Fish Creek Park $0.023 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.023 per $1,000, Fish Creek Park’s earthquake risk is about the typical Canadian town’s ($0.030; 0.8 times).
Figures for earthquake risk are published for the city of Calgary as a whole, not for Fish Creek Park alone.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Alberta expects $0.013 a year; Fish Creek Park 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.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Fish Creek Park (54%).
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 Fish Creek Park’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).
Radon about average around Fish Creek Park: 8.1% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
8.1% of tested homes around Fish Creek Park were over the guideline, much like the typical Canadian town at 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Alberta has 7.5% over 200 Bq/m³; Fish Creek Park’s 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: Fish Creek Park, 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 share describes the area, not a house: in Fish Creek Park as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: one figure for all of the Calgary Health Region
Weather and fire alerts for Fish Creek Park
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Fish Creek Park; 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 Fish Creek Park, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Fish Creek Park’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Creek Park | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Millrise 6,754 · 0.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Midnapore 7,022 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Shawnessy 9,696 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Canyon Meadows 6,751 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Evergreen 19,988 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Woodlands 5,391 · 2.8 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
The fire record around Evergreen is a touch heavier than Fish Creek Park’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Fish Creek Park faces
Practical steps for Fish Creek Park’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
- 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 Fish Creek Park’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Fish Creek Park’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Fish Creek Park sits in.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Fish Creek Park floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Fish Creek Park
Is radon a problem in Fish Creek Park?
8.1% of the 86 homes Health Canada tested around Fish Creek Park topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is Fish Creek Park at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Fish Creek Park’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 Fish Creek Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Fish Creek Park’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Fish Creek Park?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Fish Creek Park’s buildings lose $0.023 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Fish Creek Park flood?
Fish Creek Park’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
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).