Hazard risk in Kiniski Gardens is lower than in 98% of Canadian towns
Wildfire barely registers for Kiniski Gardens, at 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%. Kiniski Gardens grades A+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Kiniski Gardens’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Kiniski Gardens: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Kiniski Gardens faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Kiniski Gardens grades A+ for hazard risk
The grade weighs Kiniski Gardens’ 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: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. 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.
Little of the land around Kiniski Gardens has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Kiniski Gardens’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.000% of the land a year around Kiniski Gardens, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Only 0.3% of the land within 25 km of Kiniski Gardens is forest fuel, and 0% close in.
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
Among the 478 towns in Alberta, Wainwright burns fastest (1.43% a year); Kiniski Gardens is with the 386 near zero.
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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, Kiniski Gardens is in the largest group, low (92%), and at its floor, while 7.5% rank higher.
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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Kiniski Gardens
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Kiniski Gardens: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Kiniski Gardens, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Alberta, 46% of towns against 58% nationally, and Kiniski Gardens has none.
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 Kiniski Gardens 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.”
Little shaking expected in Kiniski Gardens: $0.013 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Kiniski Gardens’ $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, Kiniski Gardens included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Alberta is $0.013; Kiniski Gardens, 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 Kiniski Gardens.
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Kiniski Gardens’ figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
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 Kiniski Gardens: 1.4% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · The radon tests numbers here cover the Capital Health
Where the typical Canadian town has 6.6% of homes over the guideline, Kiniski Gardens’ area has fewer, 1.4%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Kiniski Gardens’ 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.
The quietest radon band, under 5%, holds 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns and Kiniski Gardens; 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 Kiniski Gardens 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 Kiniski Gardens
Alerts for Kiniski Gardens 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 Kiniski Gardens 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 Kiniski Gardens
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiniski Gardens | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Jackson Heights 4,195 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Larkspur 5,472 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Minchau 2,576 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Greenview 2,822 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Weinlos 3,243 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Hillview 5,473 · 1.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
Kiniski Gardens’ low band tops its neighbours; Jackson Heights is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Kiniski Gardens faces
What to do about the hazards Kiniski Gardens 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. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Kiniski Gardens’.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Kiniski Gardens’ homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Kiniski Gardens until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Kiniski Gardens without grading them.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Kiniski Gardens
How is Kiniski Gardens’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Kiniski Gardens grades A+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Kiniski Gardens?
In Health Canada’s survey, 1.4% of 73 homes tested in Kiniski Gardens’ area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Kiniski Gardens?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Kiniski Gardens’ buildings lose $0.013 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Kiniski Gardens flood?
Nothing is listed for Kiniski Gardens on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
Is Kiniski Gardens at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Kiniski Gardens’ 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).