Photo: GreenVolvox · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places are as safe from hazards as Clareview Town Centre: it beats 98% of Canadian towns
Around Clareview Town Centre, wildfire is practically absent from the record: 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. In Health Canada’s survey, just 1.4% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Clareview Town Centre grades A+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Clareview Town Centre’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Clareview Town Centre: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Clareview Town Centre faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Clareview Town Centre grades A+ for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Clareview Town Centre with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #11 of 474 in Alberta and #22 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The radon share rests on 73 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Clareview Town Centre: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Clareview Town Centre’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
At 0.000% of the land a year, Clareview Town Centre’s burn rate is in the low band; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Forest makes up 0.1% of the land within 5 km of Clareview Town Centre and 0.3% within 25 km, little for a forest fire to run through.
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
Near-zero burning puts Clareview Town Centre with 386 of the 478 towns in Alberta, far below Wainwright 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.
The low band holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Clareview Town Centre 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.
No flood study is listed for Clareview Town Centre
Flood studies whose area touches Clareview Town Centre, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Clareview Town Centre; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Alberta reaches 46% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Clareview Town Centre.
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 Clareview Town Centre.
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.”
Low seismic risk in Clareview Town Centre: $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.
Clareview Town Centre’s $0.013 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.4 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Clareview Town Centre at $0.013 beside a median in Alberta of $0.013, with Black Diamond on top at $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.
Clareview Town Centre 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 Clareview Town Centre’s 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). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Edmonton
1.4% of homes tested around Clareview Town Centre 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 Capital Health
Radon runs below the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Clareview Town Centre’s area, at 1.4%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs lower around Clareview Town Centre than in most towns in Alberta: 1.4% against 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 Clareview Town Centre, 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 share describes the area, not a house: in Clareview Town Centre as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Clareview Town Centre
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Clareview Town Centre; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Clareview Town Centre come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Clareview Town Centre’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clareview Town Centre | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Miller 3,294 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Homesteader 6,059 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Belmont 5,299 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Bannerman 5,187 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Kirkness 5,279 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| York 4,030 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
Miller (low) has the heaviest fire record of Clareview Town Centre’s neighbours, and Clareview Town Centre (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Clareview Town Centre faces
What to do about the hazards Clareview Town Centre 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Clareview Town Centre’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Clareview Town Centre’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Clareview Town Centre 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 Clareview Town Centre.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Clareview Town Centre
How big is the earthquake risk in Clareview Town Centre?
Expected earthquake damage in Clareview Town Centre comes to $0.013 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Does Clareview Town Centre flood?
Nothing is listed for Clareview Town Centre on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How is Clareview Town Centre’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Clareview Town Centre A+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Clareview Town Centre at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Clareview Town Centre since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
Is radon a problem in Clareview Town Centre?
In Health Canada’s survey, 1.4% of 73 homes tested in Clareview Town Centre’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
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).