Photo: Hero122 · CC BY-SA 3.0Wildfire low, radon 8.9%: how Raymond stands on hazards
Wildfire isn’t Raymond’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (0.000% a year). Seismic risk in Raymond sits near the middle: $0.028 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Hazard risk gives Raymond a grade of B−, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Raymond’s hazards
For Raymond, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Raymond faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Raymond grades B− for hazard risk
Earthquake risk and radon make Raymond’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
Its place: #453 of 474 in Alberta and #1,590 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near Raymond: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Raymond’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Raymond’s 0.000% is in the low band.
Only 0% of the land within 25 km of Raymond is forest fuel, and 0% close in.
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
Wainwright has the highest burn rate in Alberta, 1.43% a year; around Raymond, as around 386 of the 478 towns, it rounds to zero.
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 Raymond, 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 Raymond
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Raymond: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Raymond, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
No study touches Raymond; in Alberta, 46% of towns have one, below Canada’s 58%.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Raymond’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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.”
Expected shaking damage in Raymond: $0.028 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.9 times the typical $0.030: Raymond’s $0.028 is ordinary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Above the middle in Alberta: Raymond’s $0.028 against a median of $0.013, with Black Diamond 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.
Neither high nor low for Canada: 51% of the 2,611 towns expect more damage than Raymond.
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 Raymond.
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 Raymond: 8.9% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
At 8.9% over the guideline, the area around Raymond is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Chinook Regional Health Authority, Raymond included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Raymond’s area, at 8.9%, is close to the median in Alberta (7.5%); 0.9% 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 Raymond’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.
Whatever Raymond’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Raymond
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Raymond; 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 Raymond, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Raymond
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond | Low | $0.028 | 8.9% | None listed |
| Stirling 1,350 · 11 km | Low | $0.023 | 8.9% | None listed |
| Magrath 2,566 · 16 km | Low | $0.041 | 8.9% | None listed |
| Warner County No. 5 4,533 · 19 km | Low | $0.022 | 8.9% | Yes |
Warner County No. 5 burns a little more than Raymond, in the same low band (low here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Raymond faces
Practical steps for Raymond’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 Raymond until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Raymond, 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. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Raymond without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Raymond’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Raymond
Is radon a problem in Raymond?
The area’s survey found 8.9% of 112 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Raymond.
Does Raymond flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Raymond, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is Raymond at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Raymond since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How is Raymond’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Raymond’s Hazard risk grade is B−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Raymond?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Raymond’s buildings lose $0.028 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
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).