Hazard risk in Beverly Heights is lower than in 98% of Canadian towns
For Beverly Heights, wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land since 1986, 0.000% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Beverly Heights grades A+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Beverly Heights’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Beverly Heights: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Beverly Heights faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Beverly Heights grades A+ for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for Beverly Heights, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #11 of 474 in Alberta and #22 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Only 73 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Beverly Heights: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Beverly Heights’ residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
In a typical year 0.000% of the land near Beverly Heights burns; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%, and both are low.
With 0.1% forest fuel within 5 km and 0.2% within 25 km, the land around Beverly Heights gives a fire little to burn.
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 Beverly Heights 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.
The low band holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Beverly Heights sits at its very bottom; only 7.5% are above it.
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.
Government of Alberta has mapped flooding for Beverly Heights (1 study)
Flood studies whose area touches Beverly Heights, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Government of Alberta holds the flood mapping that covers Beverly Heights (2024), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Saskatchewan River Flood Study | Government of Alberta | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 46% of towns in Alberta have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%; Beverly Heights is one of them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Beverly Heights 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.
Low seismic risk in Beverly Heights: $0.013 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Beverly Heights’ $0.013 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.4 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Edmonton, Beverly Heights included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Beverly Heights ($0.013) matches the middle in Alberta ($0.013), far from Black Diamond’s $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.
Beverly Heights is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 75% 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 loss is to Beverly Heights’ buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Little radon around Beverly Heights: 1.4% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
A lower share than most: 1.4% of tested homes around Beverly Heights, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Capital Health, with Beverly Heights one part of it.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Beverly Heights’ area, at 1.4%, is below 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.
Radon rarely tops the guideline around Beverly Heights, as for 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 63% see 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.
The survey sampled homes around Beverly Heights; 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 Beverly Heights
Alerts for Beverly Heights 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 Beverly Heights to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Beverly Heights
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly Heights | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Beacon Heights 4,389 · 0.6 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Rundle Heights 5,175 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Newton 2,809 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Overlanders 2,879 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Highlands 2,677 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Capilano 5,046 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
Beverly Heights’ low band tops its neighbours; Beacon Heights is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Beverly Heights faces
What to do about the hazards Beverly Heights 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. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Beverly Heights sits in.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Beverly Heights floods.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Beverly Heights’ homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Beverly Heights’ figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Beverly Heights
Is radon a problem in Beverly Heights?
In Health Canada’s survey, 1.4% of 73 homes tested in Beverly Heights’ area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How is Beverly Heights’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Beverly Heights’ Hazard risk grade is A+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does Beverly Heights flood?
Beverly Heights’ area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
How big is the earthquake risk in Beverly Heights?
About $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Beverly Heights.
Is Beverly Heights at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Beverly Heights since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
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).