Photo: Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Millet is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Government of Alberta
The national fire record shows next to nothing around Millet, 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986 (0.000% a year). Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.014 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). About as many homes carry radon around Millet as elsewhere, 7.5% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Millet a grade of A−, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Millet’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Millet: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Millet faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Millet grades A− for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Millet’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
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.
Wildfire is rare near Millet: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Millet’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around Millet burns at 0.000% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Forest makes up 1.3% of the land within 5 km of Millet and 0.4% within 25 km, little for a forest fire to run through.
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
Fire has taken almost none of the land around Millet, as for 387 of the 479 towns in Alberta; Wainwright tops the list 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Millet is among the many where the yearly burn rate 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.
Government of Alberta has mapped flooding for Millet (1 study)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Millet: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Government of Alberta holds the flood mapping that covers Millet (2003), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millet Flood Hazard Study | Government of Alberta | 2003 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study sets Millet apart in Alberta, where 46% of towns have one (Canada: 58%).
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping is shown for Millet to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Millet just $0.014 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.014 per $1,000, Millet carries 0.5 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Typical for its province: Millet at $0.014 beside a median in Alberta of $0.013, with Black Diamond on top 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.
73% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Millet.
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 Millet’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).
Some radon around Millet: 7.5% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Millet’s area 7.5%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Millet’s area, at 7.5%, is close to the median in Alberta (7.5%).
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 Millet, 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.
One home in Millet 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). · Radon tests: the David Thompson Regional Health Authority
Weather and fire alerts for Millet
Alerts for Millet 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 Millet 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 Millet
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millet | Low | $0.014 | 7.5% | Yes |
| Wetaskiwin 13,703 · 15 km | Low | $0.017 | 7.5% | None listed |
| Leduc County 16,400 · 18 km | Low | $0.014 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Leduc 39,966 · 19 km | Low | $0.015 | 1.4% | None listed |
Millet’s low band tops its neighbours; Wetaskiwin is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Millet faces
Practical steps for Millet’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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Millet’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Millet’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- 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 Millet.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Millet takes its 2007 health region’s share.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Millet
Is radon a problem in Millet?
7.5% of the 107 homes Health Canada tested around Millet topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Does Millet flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Millet; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Millet?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Millet’s buildings lose $0.014 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Millet at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Millet since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How is Millet’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Millet A−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).