Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainA flood study covers Midnapore: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Government of Alberta
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Midnapore, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquake risk in Midnapore is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.023 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Radon around Midnapore is ordinary for Canada: 8.1% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Midnapore a grade of B+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Midnapore’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Midnapore: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Midnapore faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Midnapore grades B+ for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Midnapore’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: 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.
Little of the land around Midnapore has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Midnapore’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Midnapore at 0.000% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Fire has stayed at least 5.8 km from Midnapore’s homes since 1986.
Around Midnapore the forest is thin or far off: 1.5% of the land within 5 km and 1.6% 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
Fire has taken almost none of the land around Midnapore, as for 386 of the 478 towns in Alberta; Wainwright tops the list 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.
Midnapore shares the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, its burn rate rounding to nothing; 7.5% burn faster.
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.
A flood study covers Midnapore, from Government of Alberta: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Midnapore: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
One study on the inventory touches Midnapore, 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
Midnapore 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Midnapore.
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 Midnapore: $0.023 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Nothing unusual about Midnapore’s ground: $0.023 against a typical $0.030, 0.8 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Alberta peaks in Black Diamond ($0.048); Midnapore, at $0.023, sits above the median of $0.013.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Neither high nor low for Canada: 54% of the 2,611 towns expect more damage than Midnapore.
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 Midnapore’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). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Calgary
8.1% of homes tested around Midnapore are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Midnapore’s area 8.1%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Midnapore shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Calgary Health Region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Midnapore, 8.1% of tests topped the guideline, about the same as the typical town in Alberta (7.5%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Radon tops the guideline in a modest share of homes around Midnapore, a band holding 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% rank above.
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 Midnapore; 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 Midnapore
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Midnapore; 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 Midnapore, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Midnapore
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midnapore | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Millrise 6,754 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Fish Creek Park 9,045 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Shawnessy 9,696 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Parkland 3,652 · 2.1 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Sundance 9,043 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Somerset 8,416 · 2.8 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Midnapore (low), with Millrise next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Midnapore faces
Practical steps for Midnapore’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 Midnapore’s.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Midnapore takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 Midnapore.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Midnapore’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Midnapore
How is Midnapore’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Midnapore grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Midnapore?
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 Midnapore.
Does Midnapore flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Midnapore; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Midnapore?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Midnapore’s buildings lose $0.023 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Midnapore at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Midnapore’s low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2014) is short of the level that counts.
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).