Few places are as safe from hazards as Ahtahkakoop 104: it beats 96% of Canadian towns
Fire seldom reaches Ahtahkakoop 104: since 1986, 1.7% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.05% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.004 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Radon around Ahtahkakoop 104 is ordinary for Canada: 7.4% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Ahtahkakoop 104 a grade of A+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Ahtahkakoop 104’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Ahtahkakoop 104: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Ahtahkakoop 104 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Ahtahkakoop 104: A+
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Ahtahkakoop 104 with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
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 Ahtahkakoop 104 has burned: 11% within 5 km, 1.7% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Ahtahkakoop 104’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.05% of the land a year around Ahtahkakoop 104, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
7.1% of the land within 5 km of Ahtahkakoop 104 is forest fuel, close to the 3.7% 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 Saskatchewan · highest of 105
Ahtahkakoop 104 ranks 9th of the 105 towns in Saskatchewan for burn rate, at 0.05% a year; La Loche leads with 1.94%.
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.
Ahtahkakoop 104 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 Ahtahkakoop 104
Flood studies whose area touches Ahtahkakoop 104, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Ahtahkakoop 104, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Saskatchewan, 55% of towns against 58% nationally, and Ahtahkakoop 104 has none.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Ahtahkakoop 104.
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.”
Little shaking expected in Ahtahkakoop 104: $0.004 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
0.1 times the typical $0.030: Ahtahkakoop 104’s $0.004 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in Saskatchewan expects $0.006 a year in shaking damage; Ahtahkakoop 104 expects less, $0.004, and Weyburn the most, $0.033.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Ahtahkakoop 104 is among Canada’s quietest towns for earthquakes: 98% of the 2,611 expect more damage.
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).
The loss is to Ahtahkakoop 104’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
7.4% of homes tested around Ahtahkakoop 104 are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Ahtahkakoop 104’s area 7.4%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Ahtahkakoop 104 shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Prince Albert Parkland RHA.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Saskatchewan has 9.1% over 200 Bq/m³; Ahtahkakoop 104’s area has 7.4%, much the same.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
A middling share of high tests puts Ahtahkakoop 104 with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, below 26% of them.
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 share describes the area, not a house: in Ahtahkakoop 104 as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Ahtahkakoop 104
Alerts for Ahtahkakoop 104 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 Ahtahkakoop 104 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 Ahtahkakoop 104 faces
What to do about the hazards Ahtahkakoop 104 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
- 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 Ahtahkakoop 104 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 Ahtahkakoop 104’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 Ahtahkakoop 104 sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Ahtahkakoop 104’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Ahtahkakoop 104
How is Ahtahkakoop 104’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Ahtahkakoop 104’s Hazard risk grade is A+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Ahtahkakoop 104 at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 1.7% of the land around Ahtahkakoop 104 since 1986 (last in 2025); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Does Ahtahkakoop 104 flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Ahtahkakoop 104’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
Is radon a problem in Ahtahkakoop 104?
Around Ahtahkakoop 104, 108 survey homes were tested and 7.4% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How big is the earthquake risk in Ahtahkakoop 104?
Expected earthquake damage in Ahtahkakoop 104 comes to $0.004 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).