Photo: 117Avenue · CC BY 4.0Enoch Cree Nation faces fewer hazards than 95% of Canadian towns
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Enoch Cree Nation, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. NRCan expects $0.016 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Enoch Cree Nation, near the typical $0.030. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 1.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Enoch Cree Nation grades A+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Enoch Cree Nation’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Enoch Cree Nation: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Enoch Cree Nation faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Enoch Cree Nation: A+
For Enoch Cree Nation, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. 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.
Few fires near Enoch Cree Nation: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Enoch Cree Nation’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
In a typical year 0.000% of the land near Enoch Cree Nation burns; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%, and both are low.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Enoch Cree Nation’s homes came within 18 km, never inside 5 km.
Little near Enoch Cree Nation’s homes can carry a forest fire; only 0.1% of the land within 5 km is forest fuel, and 0.7% within 25 km.
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 479
To three decimals the burn rate around Enoch Cree Nation is zero, as for 387 of the 479 towns in Alberta, while Wainwright reaches 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Enoch Cree Nation, burning rounds to zero.
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 Enoch Cree Nation
Flood studies whose area touches Enoch Cree Nation, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Enoch Cree Nation; 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 Enoch Cree Nation 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 studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Enoch Cree Nation.
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.”
Ordinary seismic risk in Enoch Cree Nation: $0.016 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.
Earthquake losses in Enoch Cree Nation, $0.016 per $1,000, are in line with the typical $0.030 (0.5 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Enoch Cree Nation’s $0.016 is close to the median in Alberta, $0.013; Black Diamond is highest 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.
71% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Enoch Cree Nation.
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 loss is to Enoch Cree Nation’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon runs low around Enoch Cree Nation: 1.4% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · The radon tests numbers here cover the Capital Health
Radon runs below the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Enoch Cree Nation’s area, at 1.4%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around Enoch Cree Nation (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 Enoch Cree Nation’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.
One home in Enoch Cree Nation 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 Enoch Cree Nation
Alerts for Enoch Cree Nation 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 Enoch Cree Nation 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 Enoch Cree Nation
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enoch Cree Nation | Low | $0.016 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Granville 2,994 · 3.1 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| The Hamptons 12,008 · 3.4 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Rosenthal 4,873 · 3.5 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Glastonbury 9,745 · 4.0 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Edgemont 5,059 · 4.0 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
| Suder Greens 2,928 · 4.4 km | Low | $0.013 | 1.4% | None listed |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Enoch Cree Nation (low); Granville comes closest (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Enoch Cree Nation faces
Practical steps for Enoch Cree Nation’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. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Enoch Cree Nation until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Enoch Cree Nation’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Enoch Cree Nation without grading them.
- 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 Enoch Cree Nation’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Enoch Cree Nation
Is radon a problem in Enoch Cree Nation?
1.4% of the 73 homes Health Canada tested around Enoch Cree Nation topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How big is the earthquake risk in Enoch Cree Nation?
About $0.016 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Enoch Cree Nation.
Does Enoch Cree Nation flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Enoch Cree Nation (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How is Enoch Cree Nation’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Enoch Cree Nation grades A+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Enoch Cree Nation at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Enoch Cree Nation’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2023), 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).