Wildfire low, radon 9.6%: how Saddle Lake 125 stands on hazards
Burn scars are few around Saddle Lake 125, with 0.1% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.003% a year). Saddle Lake 125 can’t get a Hazard risk grade: NRCan’s seismic model has no figure for it.
What stands out about Saddle Lake 125’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Saddle Lake 125: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Saddle Lake 125 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Radon
Flood study
No Hazard risk grade is possible for Saddle Lake 125
Two inputs always count for Saddle Lake 125, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
As a First Nations reserve, Saddle Lake 125 gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists.
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.
Little of the land around Saddle Lake 125 has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0.1% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Saddle Lake 125’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Saddle Lake 125 at 0.003% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Fire has stayed at least 24 km from Saddle Lake 125’s homes since 1986.
With 0.2% forest fuel within 5 km and 1.4% within 25 km, the land around Saddle Lake 125 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 479
Wainwright burns fastest in Alberta at 1.43% a year; Saddle Lake 125, at 0.003%, ranks 71st of 479.
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.
Saddle Lake 125 is in the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 7.5% sit in moderate or 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Saddle Lake 125
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Saddle Lake 125: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Nationally, Saddle Lake 125 has no listed flood study; the municipality is the place to ask.
Towns with a flood study on file
Saddle Lake 125 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.
Flood mapping is shown for Saddle Lake 125 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.”
Radon about average around Saddle Lake 125: 9.6% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Aspen Regional Health Authority
Saddle Lake 125’s area, at 9.6%, is close to the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Saddle Lake 125’s area, at 9.6%, is above the median in Alberta (7.5%), and 0.5% 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.
Saddle Lake 125 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Saddle Lake 125 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 Saddle Lake 125
Alerts for Saddle Lake 125 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 Saddle Lake 125 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)
Get ready for what Saddle Lake 125 faces
What to do about the hazards Saddle Lake 125 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Saddle Lake 125’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Saddle Lake 125 sits in.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Saddle Lake 125 floods.
- 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 Saddle Lake 125’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Saddle Lake 125
Is Saddle Lake 125 at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.1% of the land around Saddle Lake 125 since 1986 (last in 2023); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Is radon a problem in Saddle Lake 125?
Around Saddle Lake 125, 219 survey homes were tested and 9.6% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Does Saddle Lake 125 flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Saddle Lake 125’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
How is Saddle Lake 125’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Risk needs earthquakes, radon and wildfire, and Saddle Lake 125 is missing one, so there will be no grade.
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).