Few places are as safe from hazards as Webber Greens: it beats 98% of Canadian towns
Fire has left almost no mark near Webber Greens: 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%. Hazard risk gives Webber Greens a grade of A+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Webber Greens’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Webber Greens: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Webber Greens faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Webber Greens: A+
For Webber Greens, 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. 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.
Wildfire is rare near Webber Greens: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Webber Greens’ homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Webber Greens at 0.000% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
The 5 km ring around Webber Greens’ homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 23 km out.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0.6% within 25 km, the land around Webber Greens 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
Little or nothing burns around Webber Greens in a typical year; 386 of the 478 towns in Alberta share that, and Wainwright leads 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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, Webber Greens 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.
No flood study is listed for Webber Greens
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Webber Greens: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Webber Greens, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Webber Greens has no flood study on file; only 46% of towns in Alberta do, against 58% across Canada.
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 Webber Greens.
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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Webber Greens just $0.013 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Webber Greens it is only $0.013, 0.4 times as much.
Figures for earthquake risk are published for the city of Edmonton as a whole, not for Webber Greens alone.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Neither high nor low in Alberta: Webber Greens’ $0.013 sits by the median of $0.013, while Black Diamond reaches $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 Webber Greens.
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 model counts damage to Webber Greens’ buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
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 Webber Greens are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Radon runs below the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Webber Greens’ area, at 1.4%. Webber Greens shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Capital Health.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around Webber Greens (1.4%) than in the typical town in Alberta (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 Webber Greens’ 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.
One home in Webber Greens 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 Webber Greens
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Webber Greens; 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. |
For fires near Webber Greens, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Webber Greens
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Webber Greens | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Suder Greens 2,928 · 0.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Secord 8,205 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Rosenthal 4,873 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Belmead 3,970 · 2.8 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Glastonbury 9,745 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Aldergrove 5,311 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
Webber Greens’ low band tops its neighbours; Suder Greens is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Webber Greens faces
Practical steps for Webber Greens’ 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
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Webber Greens is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Webber Greens’ homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- 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 Webber Greens.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Webber Greens’ figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Webber Greens
Does Webber Greens flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Webber Greens, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
How is Webber Greens’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Webber Greens A+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is radon a problem in Webber Greens?
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 Webber Greens.
Is Webber Greens at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Webber Greens’ low band (0% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2023) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in Webber Greens?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Webber Greens’ buildings lose $0.013 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
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).