Photo: Jason Whiting · CC BY-SA 4.0Lloydminster (Part) faces fewer hazards than 98% of Canadian towns
For Lloydminster (Part), wildfire history is close to nil: 0% of nearby land since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.005 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Lloydminster (Part)’s survey area, 5.2% over the radon guideline, is close to the typical town’s 6.6%. Lloydminster (Part) grades A+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Lloydminster (Part)’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Lloydminster (Part): earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Lloydminster (Part) faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Lloydminster (Part): A+
Earthquake risk and radon make Lloydminster (Part)’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
Its place: #9 of 474 in Alberta and #20 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Lloydminster (Part): 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Lloydminster (Part)’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.000% of the land a year, Lloydminster (Part)’s burn rate is in the low band; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0% within 25 km, the land around Lloydminster (Part) 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 Lloydminster (Part) 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Lloydminster (Part), 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.
No flood study is listed for Lloydminster (Part)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Lloydminster (Part): who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Lloydminster (Part), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Lloydminster (Part) 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.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Lloydminster (Part)’s homes are at risk.
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 Lloydminster (Part): $0.005 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Lloydminster (Part) it is only $0.005, 0.2 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in Alberta: Lloydminster (Part)’s $0.005 against a median of $0.013; 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.
Lloydminster (Part) is among Canada’s quietest towns for earthquakes: 96% of the 2,611 expect more damage.
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Lloydminster (Part)’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
5.2% of homes tested around Lloydminster (Part) are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
The survey area of Lloydminster (Part) reads 5.2%, a shade from the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the East Central Health, Lloydminster (Part) included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Lloydminster (Part)’s area, at 5.2%, is below the median in Alberta (7.5%), though 1% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Lloydminster (Part)’s band of 5 to 10%; 26% sit higher.
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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Lloydminster (Part) can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Lloydminster (Part)
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Lloydminster (Part); 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Lloydminster (Part), and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Lloydminster (Part)’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lloydminster (Part) | Low | $0.005 | 5.2% | None listed |
| Lloydminster (Part) 13,137 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.004 | 11% | None listed |
| Wilton No. 472 1,583 · 11 km | Low | $0.004 | 11% | Yes |
| Britannia No. 502 2,212 · 18 km | Low | $0.004 | 11% | None listed |
The fire record around Britannia No. 502 is a touch heavier than Lloydminster (Part)’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Lloydminster (Part) faces
Practical steps for Lloydminster (Part)’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
- 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 Lloydminster (Part).
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Lloydminster (Part) takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 Lloydminster (Part)’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Lloydminster (Part)’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Lloydminster (Part)
Is Lloydminster (Part) at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Lloydminster (Part)’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How is Lloydminster (Part)’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Lloydminster (Part) A+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Lloydminster (Part)?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Lloydminster (Part) $0.005 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Lloydminster (Part) flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Lloydminster (Part), and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is radon a problem in Lloydminster (Part)?
The area’s survey found 5.2% of 97 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Lloydminster (Part).
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).