Photo: Mack Male from Edmonton, AB, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0King Edward Park faces fewer hazards than 98% of Canadian towns
Since 1986 almost nothing has burned near King Edward Park: 0% of the land within 25 km, or 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%. King Edward Park grades A+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about King Edward Park’s hazards
For King Edward Park, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What King Edward Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
King Edward Park grades A+ for hazard risk
For King Edward Park, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around King Edward Park has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around King Edward Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Around King Edward Park fire takes 0.000% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Around King Edward Park the forest is thin or far off: 0.1% of the land within 5 km and 0.3% within 25 km is forest fuel.
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
Of the 478 towns in Alberta, 386 have a burn rate that rounds to zero, King Edward Park among them; Wainwright leads at 1.43% a year.
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.
Only 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; King Edward Park, at a rounded zero, is far from them.
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 King Edward Park
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for King Edward Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
No flood study on the national inventory covers King Edward Park; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its 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 King Edward Park is not among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping is shown for King Edward Park to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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 King Edward Park: $0.013 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in King Edward Park it is only $0.013, 0.4 times as much.
Behind earthquake risk sits data gathered across the city of Edmonton, with King Edward Park one part of it.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Alberta is $0.013; King Edward Park, at $0.013, is right beside it, and Black Diamond tops the list 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 75% of its 2,611 towns sit above King Edward Park.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in King Edward Park is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
1.4% of homes tested around King Edward Park are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
King Edward Park’s area, at 1.4%, is below the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, though any one home can still be high. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Capital Health, King Edward Park included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Alberta is 7.5% over 200 Bq/m³; around King Edward Park it is 1.4%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Under 5% puts King Edward Park with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 63% have more high tests.
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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, King Edward Park’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in King Edward Park
Alerts for King Edward 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near King Edward Park are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around King Edward Park
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King Edward Park | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Avonmore 2,971 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Ottewell 8,040 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Holyrood 3,305 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Bonnie Doon 6,697 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Ritchie 5,215 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Hazeldean 3,247 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
Avonmore (low) has the heaviest fire record of King Edward Park’s neighbours, and King Edward Park (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what King Edward Park faces
Practical steps for King Edward 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- 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 King Edward Park.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for King Edward Park is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for King Edward Park’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For King Edward Park, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
Questions about flooding and hazards in King Edward Park
How big is the earthquake risk in King Edward Park?
In NRCan’s seismic model, King Edward Park’s buildings lose $0.013 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is King Edward Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
King Edward Park grades A+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is King Edward Park at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of King Edward Park since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
Does King Edward Park flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for King Edward Park, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is radon a problem in King Edward Park?
The area’s survey found 1.4% of 73 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in King Edward Park.
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).