Photo: Johntwrl · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazard risk in West Jasper Place is lower than in 98% of Canadian towns
Wildfire barely registers for West Jasper Place, 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). In Health Canada’s survey, just 1.4% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives West Jasper Place a grade of A+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about West Jasper Place’s hazards
For West Jasper Place, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What West Jasper Place faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
West Jasper Place grades A+ for hazard risk
For West Jasper Place, 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 West Jasper Place has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around West Jasper Place’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.000% of the land a year, West Jasper Place’s burn rate is in the low band; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Around West Jasper Place the forest is thin or far off: 0.3% of the land within 5 km and 0.5% 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
Near-zero burning puts West Jasper Place 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.
Measured against 2,610 towns, West Jasper Place 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 West Jasper Place
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for West Jasper Place: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches West Jasper Place, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 46% of towns in Alberta have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and West Jasper Place is not among them.
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 West Jasper Place 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 West Jasper Place: $0.013 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.013 per $1,000, West Jasper Place carries 0.4 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around West Jasper Place runs at $0.013 a year, near the $0.013 of the typical town in Alberta; Black Diamond has $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 West Jasper Place 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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in West Jasper Place 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). · Not measured by town: earthquake risk (the city of Edmonton)
Radon runs low around West Jasper Place: 1.4% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Capital Health
West Jasper Place’s area, at 1.4%, is below the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, though any one home can still be high.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Alberta is 7.5% over 200 Bq/m³; around West Jasper Place it is 1.4%.
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 West Jasper Place’s 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 West Jasper Place, 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 West Jasper Place
Alerts for West Jasper Place 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 West Jasper Place 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 West Jasper Place
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Jasper Place | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Glenwood 4,842 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Britannia Youngstown 4,616 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Jasper Park 3,219 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Canora 4,799 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Meadowlark Park 2,671 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Glenora 6,197 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | Yes |
Glenwood (low) has the heaviest fire record of West Jasper Place’s neighbours, and West Jasper Place (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what West Jasper Place faces
Practical steps for West Jasper Place’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
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for West Jasper Place 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 West Jasper Place’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’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 West Jasper Place.
- Wildfire counts one way. For West Jasper Place, 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 West Jasper Place
How big is the earthquake risk in West Jasper Place?
In NRCan’s seismic model, West Jasper Place’s buildings lose $0.013 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is West Jasper Place at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: West Jasper Place’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in West Jasper Place?
1.4% of the 73 homes Health Canada tested around West Jasper Place topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is West Jasper Place’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
West Jasper Place grades A+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does West Jasper Place flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers West Jasper Place (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
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).