Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Fairview No. 136’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 8.9% of area homes over the radon guideline
Fire seldom reaches Fairview No. 136: since 1986, 0.7% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.02% a year). Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.015 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Fairview No. 136 grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Fairview No. 136’s hazards
For Fairview No. 136, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Fairview No. 136 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Fairview No. 136: B+
For Fairview No. 136, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Fairview No. 136: 0.7% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 1.4% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Fairview No. 136’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Around Fairview No. 136 fire takes 0.02% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Forest fuel rises from 2% within 5 km of Fairview No. 136 to 6.3% within 25 km: the fuel lies away from homes.
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
At 0.02% a year, Fairview No. 136 is near the top in Alberta: 53rd of 479, behind Wainwright (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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Fairview No. 136 reads low, with 92% of them; only 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 Fairview No. 136
Flood studies whose area touches Fairview No. 136, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Fairview No. 136, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Alberta reaches 46% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Fairview No. 136.
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 Fairview No. 136 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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Fairview No. 136 just $0.015 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Fairview No. 136 it is only $0.015, 0.5 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Fairview No. 136 runs at $0.015 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 72% of its 2,611 towns sit above Fairview No. 136.
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 Fairview No. 136.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Some radon around Fairview No. 136: 8.9% of area homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Fairview No. 136’s area 8.9%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Fairview No. 136 doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Peace Country Health.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Ordinary for towns in Alberta at 8.9% over 200 Bq/m³ (7.5% is the median), the area around Fairview No. 136 had 1% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Radon tops the guideline in a modest share of homes around Fairview No. 136, a band holding 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% rank above.
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.
Neighbouring homes in Fairview No. 136 can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Fairview No. 136
Alerts for Fairview No. 136 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 Fairview No. 136 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)
How Fairview No. 136’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview No. 136 | Low | $0.015 | 8.9% | None listed |
| Fairview 2,918 · 4.0 km | Low | $0.014 | 8.9% | None listed |
Among its neighbours Fairview No. 136 has the most fire on record (low); Fairview follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Fairview No. 136 faces
Practical steps for Fairview No. 136’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. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Fairview No. 136 takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Fairview No. 136’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Fairview No. 136, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Fairview No. 136.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Fairview No. 136
Does Fairview No. 136 flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Fairview No. 136, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is Fairview No. 136 at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Fairview No. 136’s low band (0.7% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
Is radon a problem in Fairview No. 136?
The area’s survey found 8.9% of 203 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Fairview No. 136.
How is Fairview No. 136’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Fairview No. 136’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Fairview No. 136?
Expected earthquake damage in Fairview No. 136 comes to $0.015 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).