Sturgeon Lake 154’s hazards at a glance: a moderate wildfire record and 8.9% of area homes over the radon guideline
The burn rate around Sturgeon Lake 154 is 0.10% a year (4.1% of the land within 25 km since 1986), a moderate band. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.013 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Hazard risk gives Sturgeon Lake 154 a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Sturgeon Lake 154’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Sturgeon Lake 154: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Sturgeon Lake 154 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Sturgeon Lake 154: B+
For Sturgeon Lake 154, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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.
Fire reaches the land around Sturgeon Lake 154: 27% within 5 km, 4.1% within 25 km
Past fire around Sturgeon Lake 154’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.10% of the land a year, Sturgeon Lake 154’s burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Near or far, forest fuel covers a similar share around Sturgeon Lake 154: 25% within 5 km and 27% within 25 km.
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
The land around Sturgeon Lake 154 burns at 0.10% a year, the 26th highest rate of 479 towns in Alberta; Wainwright tops it 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.
Only 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Sturgeon Lake 154, and 2.1% sit above it.
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 Sturgeon Lake 154
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Sturgeon Lake 154: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Sturgeon Lake 154 on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Sturgeon Lake 154 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.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Sturgeon Lake 154.
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.”
Low seismic risk in Sturgeon Lake 154: $0.013 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.013 per $1,000, Sturgeon Lake 154 carries 0.4 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Shaking damage around Sturgeon Lake 154 runs at $0.013 a year, near the $0.013 of the typical town in Alberta; 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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (75%) face more earthquake damage than Sturgeon Lake 154.
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 Sturgeon Lake 154’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).
8.9% of homes tested around Sturgeon Lake 154 are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Radon tests for the Peace Country Health
Sturgeon Lake 154’s area sits close to the typical Canadian town: 8.9% over the guideline, against 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Sturgeon Lake 154’s area, at 8.9%, is close to the median in Alberta (7.5%); 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 Sturgeon Lake 154’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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Sturgeon Lake 154 only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Sturgeon Lake 154
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Sturgeon Lake 154; 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 Sturgeon Lake 154, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Sturgeon Lake 154’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sturgeon Lake 154 | Moderate | $0.013 | 8.9% | None listed |
| Valleyview 1,807 · 12 km | Moderate | $0.012 | 8.9% | None listed |
Sturgeon Lake 154’s moderate band tops its neighbours; Valleyview is next (moderate).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Sturgeon Lake 154 faces
Practical steps for Sturgeon Lake 154’s hazards, most pressing first.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- 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.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- How close is the forest edge?
- 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 Sturgeon Lake 154’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; Sturgeon Lake 154’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- 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 Sturgeon Lake 154 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 Sturgeon Lake 154 floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Sturgeon Lake 154
How big is the earthquake risk in Sturgeon Lake 154?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Sturgeon Lake 154 $0.013 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is Sturgeon Lake 154 at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Sturgeon Lake 154’s band is moderate, with 4.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2025), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does Sturgeon Lake 154 flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Sturgeon Lake 154 (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Sturgeon Lake 154?
8.9% of the 203 homes Health Canada tested around Sturgeon Lake 154 topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Sturgeon Lake 154’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Sturgeon Lake 154’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
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).