Photo: Mule hollandaise · CC BY-SA 4.0A flood study covers Tuxedo Park: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from Government of Alberta
Around Tuxedo Park, wildfire is practically absent from the record: 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. For earthquakes Tuxedo Park is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Tuxedo Park is ordinary for Canada: 8.1% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Tuxedo Park a grade of B+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Tuxedo Park’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Tuxedo Park: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Tuxedo Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Tuxedo Park grades B+ for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Tuxedo Park’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.
Few fires near Tuxedo Park: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Tuxedo Park’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
With 0.000% burned a year, Tuxedo Park is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
The 5 km ring around Tuxedo Park’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 11 km out.
Forest fuel is scarce around Tuxedo Park: 0% of the land within 5 km, 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
To three decimals the burn rate around Tuxedo Park is zero, as for 386 of the 478 towns in Alberta, while Wainwright reaches 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%), Tuxedo Park 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.
2 flood studies cover Tuxedo Park, the newest from Government of Alberta
Flood studies whose area touches Tuxedo Park, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The newest of 2 studies covering Tuxedo Park 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
Tuxedo Park 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 around Tuxedo Park has come in steps: 2 studies from the 2010s to the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Tuxedo Park.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Tuxedo Park floods.
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 Tuxedo Park $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.
With $0.023 of shaking damage a year per $1,000, Tuxedo Park is about even with the typical $0.030 (0.8 times).
For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Calgary, Tuxedo Park included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Tuxedo Park’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.
Tuxedo Park’s earthquake risk lands near the centre of Canada’s range; 54% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 Tuxedo Park’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).
8.1% of homes tested around Tuxedo Park are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Source area for radon tests: the Calgary Health Region
The survey area of Tuxedo Park reads 8.1%, a shade from the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Tuxedo Park’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.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Tuxedo Park’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.
One home in Tuxedo Park can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Tuxedo Park
Alerts for Tuxedo Park 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Tuxedo Park to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Tuxedo Park’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuxedo Park | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Winston Heights/Mountview 4,361 · 0.5 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Mount Pleasant 9,224 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Highland Park 4,908 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Crescent Heights 6,411 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Renfrew 6,685 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
| Rosedale 2,507 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.1% | Yes |
Nowhere around Tuxedo Park burns more: Winston Heights/Mountview, 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 Tuxedo Park faces
Practical steps for Tuxedo Park’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. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Tuxedo Park.
- 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 Tuxedo Park’s.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Tuxedo Park is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Tuxedo Park’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 Tuxedo Park
Does Tuxedo Park flood?
There is flood mapping for Tuxedo Park on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Tuxedo Park?
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 Tuxedo Park.
How big is the earthquake risk in Tuxedo Park?
Expected earthquake damage in Tuxedo Park comes to $0.023 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
How is Tuxedo Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Tuxedo Park B+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Tuxedo Park at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Tuxedo Park’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).