Photo: Greenwood714 · CC BY-SA 3.0A flood study covers Inglewood: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from Government of Alberta
Wildfire barely registers for Inglewood, at 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). Seismic risk in Inglewood sits near the middle: $0.023 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Inglewood’s survey area, 8.1% over the radon guideline, is close to the typical town’s 6.6%. Inglewood grades B+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Inglewood’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Inglewood: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Inglewood faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Inglewood: B+
Seismic risk and radon set Inglewood’s 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: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Inglewood: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Inglewood’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
With 0.000% burned a year, Inglewood is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
Fire has stayed at least 15 km from Inglewood’s homes since 1986.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Inglewood: forest fuel is 0% within 5 km and 0.7% 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
Among the 478 towns in Alberta, Wainwright burns fastest (1.43% a year); Inglewood 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.
Only 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; Inglewood, at a rounded zero, is far from them.
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.
Inglewood is on the flood map inventory: 2 studies, latest by Government of Alberta
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Inglewood: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The newest of 2 studies covering Inglewood is Government of Alberta’s, from 2025; open its map to see the zones.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bow and Elbow River Flood Study | Government of Alberta | 2025 | final |
| Nose and West Nose Creek Flood Hazard Study | Government of Alberta | 2012 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Inglewood is one of the 46% of towns in Alberta with a flood study on file, fewer than Canada’s 58%.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The 2 studies touching Inglewood are spread over time, from the 2010s to the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Inglewood.
Flood mapping is shown for Inglewood 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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Ordinary seismic risk in Inglewood: $0.023 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.8 times the typical $0.030: Inglewood’s $0.023 is ordinary.
Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Calgary, with Inglewood one part of it.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Inglewood’s $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.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Inglewood (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).
The model counts damage to Inglewood’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
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 Inglewood: 8.1% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
At 8.1% over the guideline, the area around Inglewood is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Inglewood doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Calgary Health Region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon around Inglewood 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 Inglewood’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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Inglewood can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Inglewood
Alerts for Inglewood 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Inglewood are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Inglewood’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inglewood | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Ramsay 3,601 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Bridgeland/Riverside 6,860 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Downtown East Village 3,524 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Albert Park/Radisson Heights 8,433 · 2.4 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Mayland Heights 5,937 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Renfrew 6,685 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
The neighbour with the most fire is Ramsay (low), still no more than Inglewood (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Inglewood faces
Practical steps for Inglewood’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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Inglewood.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Inglewood takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Inglewood’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Inglewood’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Inglewood
Is radon a problem in Inglewood?
The area’s survey found 8.1% of 86 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Inglewood.
Does Inglewood flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Inglewood; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
How is Inglewood’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Inglewood B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Inglewood at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Inglewood’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2014) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in Inglewood?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Inglewood $0.023 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).