Photo: Daniel from Glasgow, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0Flood mapping exists for Haysboro: 1 on record, latest by Government of Alberta
No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of Haysboro’s homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 0.000% a year). Seismic risk in Haysboro sits near the middle: $0.023 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. In Health Canada’s survey, 8.1% of homes tested in Haysboro’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%. Haysboro grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Haysboro’s hazards
For Haysboro, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Haysboro faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Haysboro grades B+ for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Haysboro with little fire nearby would get no credit for 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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Haysboro has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Haysboro’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low: the land around Haysboro burns at 0.000% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Nothing inside 5 km of Haysboro’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 6.4 km off.
Forest makes up 0.9% of the land within 5 km of Haysboro and 1.7% 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
Near-zero burning puts Haysboro 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Haysboro, burning 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.
Haysboro is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Government of Alberta
Flood studies whose area touches Haysboro, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The flood study touching Haysboro is Government of Alberta’s, dated 2025; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| 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 Haysboro 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.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Haysboro’s homes are at risk.
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 Haysboro $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.
Nothing unusual about Haysboro’s ground: $0.023 against a typical $0.030, 0.8 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.023, Haysboro is above the typical town in Alberta ($0.013); Black Diamond has the most at $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.
Middle of the pack: 54% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more earthquake risk than Haysboro.
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 Haysboro.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Earthquake risk published for the city of Calgary, not by town
8.1% of homes tested around Haysboro are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Haysboro’s area 8.1%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Calgary Health Region, Haysboro included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Alberta has 7.5% over 200 Bq/m³; Haysboro’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.
26% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Haysboro’s 5–10% band, which holds 37%.
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 Haysboro 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 Haysboro
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Haysboro; 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. |
For fires near Haysboro, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Haysboro’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haysboro | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Acadia 9,950 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Fairview 3,909 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Kingsland 4,700 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Southwood 6,092 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Palliser 4,987 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Willow Park 6,891 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
Nowhere around Haysboro burns more: Acadia, 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 Haysboro faces
What to do about the hazards Haysboro 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Haysboro’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Haysboro, 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 Haysboro 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 Haysboro until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Haysboro
Does Haysboro flood?
A flood study covers Haysboro on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is radon a problem in Haysboro?
In Health Canada’s survey, 8.1% of 86 homes tested in Haysboro’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Haysboro?
About $0.023 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Haysboro.
Is Haysboro at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0% of the land within 25 km of Haysboro has burned since 1986, the last in 2014, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
How is Haysboro’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Haysboro’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
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).