The Hamptons faces fewer hazards than 98% of Canadian towns
Wildfire isn’t The Hamptons’ worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.000% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.013 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. The Hamptons grades A+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about The Hamptons’s hazards
For The Hamptons, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What The Hamptons faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in The Hamptons: A+
Seismic risk and radon set The Hamptons’ grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of 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. 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 The Hamptons has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where The Hamptons’ residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low: the land around The Hamptons burns at 0.000% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
The 5 km ring around The Hamptons’ homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 18 km out.
Only 0.7% of the land within 25 km of The Hamptons is forest fuel, and 0.3% 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
Near-zero burning puts The Hamptons 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.
Only 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; The Hamptons, 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 The Hamptons
Flood studies whose area touches The Hamptons, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
There is no study for The Hamptons on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Alberta reaches 46% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not The Hamptons.
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 The Hamptons 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.”
Low seismic risk in The Hamptons: $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.
At $0.013 per $1,000, The Hamptons carries 0.4 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
The Hamptons doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Edmonton.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: The Hamptons 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 75% of its 2,611 towns sit above The Hamptons.
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for The Hamptons.
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 The Hamptons are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Radon tests for the Capital Health
Radon runs below the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in The Hamptons’ area, at 1.4%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs lower around The Hamptons 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.
63% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than The Hamptons’ band, which holds 37%.
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.
Radon varies from house to house in The Hamptons, so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in The Hamptons
Alerts for The Hamptons 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 The Hamptons 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 The Hamptons
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hamptons | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Edgemont 5,059 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Jamieson Place 3,813 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Granville 2,994 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Glastonbury 9,745 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Ormsby Place 4,412 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Lymburn 7,231 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
The Hamptons’ low band tops its neighbours; Edgemont is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what The Hamptons faces
Practical steps for The Hamptons’ 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 The Hamptons.
- Wildfire counts one way. For The Hamptons, 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 The Hamptons 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 The Hamptons’ census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in The Hamptons
Is radon a problem in The Hamptons?
1.4% of the 73 homes Health Canada tested around The Hamptons topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is The Hamptons at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: The Hamptons’ band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2023), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in The Hamptons?
About $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for The Hamptons.
Does The Hamptons flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers The Hamptons (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How is The Hamptons’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives The Hamptons A+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).