Photo: Mhalifu · CC BY-SA 3.0Peace No. 135 is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Government of Alberta
Burn scars are few around Peace No. 135, with 0.4% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.01% a year). Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Peace No. 135 is ordinary for Canada: 8.9% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Peace No. 135 grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Peace No. 135’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Peace No. 135: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Peace No. 135 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Peace No. 135 grades B+ for hazard risk
The grade weighs Peace No. 135’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Peace No. 135: 1.1% within 5 km, 0.4% within 25 km
Past fire around Peace No. 135’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around Peace No. 135 burns at 0.01% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Close to Peace No. 135 there is little to burn (0.4% forest fuel within 5 km), but 7.5% of the land within 25 km is forest.
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
In the top quarter in Alberta: Peace No. 135 ranks 59th of 479 at 0.01% a year, with Wainwright first 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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Peace No. 135 among them, though its rate is above zero; 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.
A flood study covers Peace No. 135, from Government of Alberta: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Peace No. 135: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
One study on the inventory touches Peace No. 135, Government of Alberta’s from 2024, and its area can be large, so it says a map exists, not that the town floods.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace River Flood Study | Government of Alberta | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study sets Peace No. 135 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Peace No. 135.
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.
Little shaking expected in Peace No. 135: $0.013 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Peace No. 135’s $0.013 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.4 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The median in Alberta is $0.013; Peace No. 135, at $0.013, is right beside it, and Black Diamond tops the list 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.
Peace No. 135 is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 75% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 Peace No. 135’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).
Radon about average around Peace No. 135: 8.9% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Peace No. 135’s area, at 8.9%, is close to the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town. Peace No. 135 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
1% of tests around Peace No. 135 passed 600 Bq/m³; over 200, its 8.9% matches 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.
Peace No. 135 is in the 5–10% band with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% have more.
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.
The survey sampled homes around Peace No. 135; it can’t tell you your basement’s level.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Peace No. 135
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Peace No. 135; 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. |
For fires near Peace No. 135, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Peace No. 135’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peace No. 135 | Low | $0.013 | 8.9% | Yes |
| Grimshaw 2,799 · 9.5 km | Low | $0.013 | 8.9% | None listed |
| Peace River 7,220 · 11 km | Low | $0.005 | 8.9% | Yes |
| Northern Sunrise County 1,848 · 18 km | High | $0.010 | 8.9% | Yes |
The heaviest fire record nearby is Northern Sunrise County’s, high to Peace No. 135’s low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Peace No. 135 faces
What to do about the hazards Peace No. 135 faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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 Peace No. 135’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- 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 Peace No. 135 until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Peace No. 135’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Peace No. 135 without grading them.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Peace No. 135
Is radon a problem in Peace No. 135?
In Health Canada’s survey, 8.9% of 203 homes tested in Peace No. 135’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Peace No. 135 flood?
135 on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
How is Peace No. 135’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Peace No. 135’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Peace No. 135?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Peace No. 135’s buildings lose $0.013 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Peace No. 135 at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.4% of the land within 25 km of Peace No. 135 has burned since 1986, the last in 2024, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
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).