Hazard risk in Crystallina Nera West is lower than in 98% of Canadian towns
No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of Crystallina Nera West’s homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 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. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Crystallina Nera West a grade of A+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Crystallina Nera West’s hazards
For Crystallina Nera West, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Crystallina Nera West faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Crystallina Nera West grades A+ for hazard risk
The grade weighs Crystallina Nera West’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: #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. Only 73 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Crystallina Nera West has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Crystallina Nera West’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Around Crystallina Nera West fire takes 0.000% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0.4% within 25 km, the land around Crystallina Nera West 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 Crystallina Nera West 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.
Crystallina Nera West 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.
No flood study is listed for Crystallina Nera West
Flood studies whose area touches Crystallina Nera West, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
An empty entry for Crystallina Nera West on the inventory isn’t proof of safety; ask locally for flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 46% of towns in Alberta have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Crystallina Nera West is not among them.
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 Crystallina Nera West.
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.”
Little shaking expected in Crystallina Nera West: $0.013 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.
Crystallina Nera West’s $0.013 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.4 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Edmonton, with Crystallina Nera West one part of it.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Crystallina Nera West 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.
Crystallina Nera West 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).
For Crystallina Nera West 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 runs low around Crystallina Nera West: 1.4% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Radon runs below the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Crystallina Nera West’s area, at 1.4%. Figures for radon tests are published for the Capital Health as a whole, not for Crystallina Nera West alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs lower around Crystallina Nera West 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 Crystallina Nera West, 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.
Whatever Crystallina Nera West’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Crystallina Nera West
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Crystallina Nera West; 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 Crystallina Nera West, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Crystallina Nera West’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystallina Nera West | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Crystallina Nera East 5,566 · 0.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Klarvatten 6,773 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Lago Lindo 2,963 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Mayliewan 4,259 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Belle Rive 3,946 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Ozerna 4,216 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
Among its neighbours Crystallina Nera West has the most fire on record (low); Crystallina Nera East follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Crystallina Nera West faces
What to do about the hazards Crystallina Nera West 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. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Crystallina Nera West’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- 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 Crystallina Nera West.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Crystallina Nera West, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Crystallina Nera West is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Crystallina Nera West
Does Crystallina Nera West flood?
Nothing is listed for Crystallina Nera West on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
Is Crystallina Nera West at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Crystallina Nera West since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How is Crystallina Nera West’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Crystallina Nera West A+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Crystallina Nera West?
About $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Crystallina Nera West.
Is radon a problem in Crystallina Nera West?
In Health Canada’s survey, 1.4% of 73 homes tested in Crystallina Nera West’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).