Hamptons’ hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 8.1% of area homes over the radon guideline
Wildfire isn’t Hamptons’ worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.000% a year). NRCan expects $0.023 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Hamptons, near the typical $0.030. Hamptons grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Hamptons’s hazards
For Hamptons, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Hamptons faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Hamptons: B+
For Hamptons, 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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Hamptons has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Hamptons’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Hamptons’ 0.000% is in the low band.
Fire has stayed at least 6.7 km from Hamptons’ homes since 1986.
Around Hamptons the forest is thin or far off: 0% of the land within 5 km and 0.8% 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
Near-zero burning puts Hamptons with 386 of the 478 towns in Alberta, far below Wainwright 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.
Like most of Canada’s 2,610 towns (92%), Hamptons is in the low band, with a burn rate of zero to three decimals; 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Hamptons
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Hamptons: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Hamptons, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Alberta, 46% of towns against 58% nationally, and Hamptons has none.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping is shown for Hamptons to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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 Hamptons: $0.023 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Hamptons’ $0.023 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (0.8 times as much).
Nobody publishes earthquake risk for Hamptons alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Calgary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Alberta expects $0.013 a year; Hamptons 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.
Hamptons 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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Hamptons.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
8.1% of homes tested around Hamptons are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Source area for radon tests: the Calgary Health Region
Around Hamptons, 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 Hamptons 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 Hamptons’ 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.
Neighbouring homes in Hamptons 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 Hamptons
Alerts for Hamptons 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 Hamptons 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 Hamptons’ neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamptons | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Edgemont 15,359 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Sherwood 6,537 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Citadel 10,196 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Hidden Valley 10,614 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Kincora 7,290 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Hawkwood 9,188 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
Citadel burns a little more than Hamptons, in the same low band (low here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Hamptons faces
Practical steps for Hamptons’ 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Hamptons’ census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Hamptons, 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. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Hamptons without grading them.
- 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 Hamptons until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Hamptons
How big is the earthquake risk in Hamptons?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Hamptons’ buildings lose $0.023 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Hamptons flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Hamptons (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is Hamptons at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Hamptons’ band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2017), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in Hamptons?
8.1% of the 86 homes Health Canada tested around Hamptons topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Hamptons’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Hamptons B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).