Hollick-Kenyon faces fewer hazards than 98% of Canadian towns
Fire has left almost no mark near Hollick-Kenyon: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hollick-Kenyon grades A+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Hollick-Kenyon’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Hollick-Kenyon: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Hollick-Kenyon faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hollick-Kenyon grades A+ for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for Hollick-Kenyon, 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: 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. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Little of the land around Hollick-Kenyon has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Hollick-Kenyon’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Hollick-Kenyon burns at 0.000% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Little near Hollick-Kenyon’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0.1% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0.3% 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
Near-zero burning puts Hollick-Kenyon 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Hollick-Kenyon is among the many where the yearly burn rate rounds to zero.
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 Hollick-Kenyon
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Hollick-Kenyon: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Hollick-Kenyon, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Alberta reaches 46% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Hollick-Kenyon.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Hollick-Kenyon’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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 Hollick-Kenyon: $0.013 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Hollick-Kenyon’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
Earthquake risk around Hollick-Kenyon ($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.
Earthquakes cost less around Hollick-Kenyon than in 75% of Canada’s 2,611 towns.
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 Hollick-Kenyon’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
Radon runs low around Hollick-Kenyon: 1.4% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Where the typical Canadian town has 6.6% of homes over the guideline, Hollick-Kenyon’s area has fewer, 1.4%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Capital Health, Hollick-Kenyon included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Against the typical town in Alberta (7.5%), the area around Hollick-Kenyon has fewer high tests: 1.4%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
The quietest radon band, under 5%, holds 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns and Hollick-Kenyon; 63% 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 Hollick-Kenyon 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 Hollick-Kenyon
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Hollick-Kenyon; 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 Hollick-Kenyon, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Hollick-Kenyon’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hollick-Kenyon | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Brintnell 6,658 · 0.8 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Matt Berry 4,093 · 0.8 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Casselman 5,795 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| McConachie 10,450 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Miller 3,294 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Cy Becker 2,683 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
Among its neighbours Hollick-Kenyon has the most fire on record (low); Brintnell follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Hollick-Kenyon faces
What to do about the hazards Hollick-Kenyon 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
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Hollick-Kenyon 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 Hollick-Kenyon’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 Hollick-Kenyon’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 Hollick-Kenyon.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Hollick-Kenyon
Is radon a problem in Hollick-Kenyon?
In Health Canada’s survey, 1.4% of 73 homes tested in Hollick-Kenyon’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Hollick-Kenyon?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Hollick-Kenyon $0.013 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Hollick-Kenyon flood?
Nothing is listed for Hollick-Kenyon on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How is Hollick-Kenyon’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Hollick-Kenyon A+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Hollick-Kenyon at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Hollick-Kenyon’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
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).