Few places are as safe from hazards as White Fish Lake 128: it beats 86% of Canadian towns
The burn rate around White Fish Lake 128 is 0.05% a year (2.1% of the land within 25 km since 1986), a moderate band. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.004 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. About as many homes carry radon around White Fish Lake 128 as elsewhere, 9.6% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Hazard risk gives White Fish Lake 128 a grade of A; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about White Fish Lake 128’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for White Fish Lake 128: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What White Fish Lake 128 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in White Fish Lake 128: A
Earthquake risk and radon make White Fish Lake 128’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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.
Fire reaches the land around White Fish Lake 128: 0% within 5 km, 2.1% within 25 km
Past fire around White Fish Lake 128’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.05% of the land a year, White Fish Lake 128’s burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Nothing inside 5 km of White Fish Lake 128’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 7.7 km off.
7% of the land within 25 km of White Fish Lake 128 is forest fuel, yet only 0.3% within 5 km of its homes.
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: White Fish Lake 128 ranks 37th of 479 at 0.05% 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.
White Fish Lake 128 is in the moderate band, which holds 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 2.1% 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.
No flood study is listed for White Fish Lake 128
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for White Fish Lake 128: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Nationally, White Fish Lake 128 has no listed flood study; the municipality is the place to ask.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Alberta reaches 46% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not White Fish Lake 128.
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 White Fish Lake 128.
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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in White Fish Lake 128 just $0.004 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in White Fish Lake 128 it is only $0.004, 0.1 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Alberta expects $0.013 a year in shaking damage; White Fish Lake 128 expects less, $0.004, and Black Diamond the most, $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.
Nearly every one of Canada’s 2,611 towns (98%) expects more shaking damage than White Fish Lake 128.
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 White Fish Lake 128’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 White Fish Lake 128: 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
At 9.6% over the guideline, the area around White Fish Lake 128 is about level with the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around White Fish Lake 128 (9.6%) than in the typical town in Alberta (7.5%); 0.5% went over 600.
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 White Fish Lake 128’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 White Fish Lake 128 only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for White Fish Lake 128
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for White Fish Lake 128; 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 White Fish Lake 128, 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)
Get ready for what White Fish Lake 128 faces
Practical steps for White Fish Lake 128’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
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; White Fish Lake 128’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, White Fish Lake 128 takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around White Fish Lake 128’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- 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 White Fish Lake 128.
Questions about flooding and hazards in White Fish Lake 128
Is radon a problem in White Fish Lake 128?
The area’s survey found 9.6% of 219 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in White Fish Lake 128.
How is White Fish Lake 128’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives White Fish Lake 128 A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does White Fish Lake 128 flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for White Fish Lake 128, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
Is White Fish Lake 128 at risk of wildfire?
Some, but White Fish Lake 128’s moderate band (2.1% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in White Fish Lake 128?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in White Fish Lake 128 $0.004 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).