Photo: Alamaraine · CC BY-SA 4.0A flood study covers Tuscany: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from Government of Alberta
Little of the land around Tuscany has burned: 0% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.001% a year. For earthquakes Tuscany is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. About as many homes carry radon around Tuscany as elsewhere, 8.1% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Tuscany grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Tuscany’s hazards
For Tuscany, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Tuscany faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Tuscany grades B+ for hazard risk
The grade weighs Tuscany’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
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.
Few fires near Tuscany: 0.1% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Tuscany’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
With 0.001% burned a year, Tuscany is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Tuscany: forest fuel is 0.6% within 5 km and 2.8% 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
Tuscany ranks 79th of the 478 towns in Alberta for burn rate, at 0.001% a year; Wainwright leads with 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.
7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns burn fast enough to rank moderate or above; Tuscany stays low, with 92%.
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.
2 flood studies cover Tuscany, the newest from Government of Alberta
Flood studies whose area touches Tuscany, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
2 studies on the inventory touch Tuscany, the newest Government of Alberta’s from 2025, and their areas can be large, so they say maps exist, not that the town floods.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bow and Elbow River Flood Study | Government of Alberta | 2025 | final |
| Upper Bow River Flood Study | Government of Alberta | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Tuscany 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.
Flood mapping is shown for Tuscany 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.
Expected shaking damage in Tuscany: $0.023 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Tuscany’s $0.023 is close to the typical town’s $0.030 (0.8 times as much).
Tuscany doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Calgary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Alberta expects $0.013 a year; Tuscany 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.
Middle of the pack: 54% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more earthquake risk than Tuscany.
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).
For Tuscany the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
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 Tuscany: 8.1% over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
At 8.1% over the guideline, the area around Tuscany is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Tuscany’s area, at 8.1%, is close to the median in Alberta (7.5%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Tuscany is in the 5–10% band with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% have more.
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.
Radon varies from house to house in Tuscany, so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: one figure for all of the Calgary Health Region
Where to get warnings in Tuscany
Alerts for Tuscany 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 Tuscany 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 Tuscany’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuscany | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Rocky Ridge 8,419 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Scenic Acres 8,026 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Royal Oak 12,343 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Arbour Lake 10,454 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | None listed |
| Rocky View County 50,260 · 4.0 km | Low | $0.024 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Valley Ridge 7,782 · 4.2 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
Rocky View County burns a little more than Tuscany, 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 Tuscany faces
What to do about the hazards Tuscany 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
- 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 Tuscany until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Tuscany, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Tuscany’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Tuscany without grading them.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Tuscany
How big is the earthquake risk in Tuscany?
Expected earthquake damage in Tuscany comes to $0.023 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Tuscany’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Tuscany B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is radon a problem in Tuscany?
In Health Canada’s survey, 8.1% of 86 homes tested in Tuscany’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Tuscany flood?
A flood study covers Tuscany on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is Tuscany at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0% of the land within 25 km of Tuscany has burned since 1986, the last in 2021, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
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).