Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazard risk in Corman Park No. 344 is lower than in 92% of Canadian towns
Burn scars are few around Corman Park No. 344, with 0.2% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.005% a year). Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). In Health Canada’s survey, 6.6% of homes tested in Corman Park No. 344’s area exceeded 200 Bq/m³, close to the typical 6.6%. Hazard risk gives Corman Park No. 344 a grade of A; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Corman Park No. 344’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Corman Park No. 344: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Corman Park No. 344 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Corman Park No. 344 grades A for hazard risk
The grade weighs Corman Park No. 344’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
Its place: #5 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #291 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The radon share rests on 76 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Little of the land around Corman Park No. 344 has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0.2% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Corman Park No. 344’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Corman Park No. 344 burns at 0.005% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
The 5 km ring around Corman Park No. 344’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 7.6 km out.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Corman Park No. 344: forest fuel is 0% within 5 km and 0% 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 104
Corman Park No. 344 sits mid-table in Saskatchewan: 43rd of 104 towns, at 0.005% a year, well behind La Loche (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.
Corman Park No. 344 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.
A flood study covers Corman Park No. 344, from Water Security Agency: 1 on the inventory
Flood studies whose area touches Corman Park No. 344, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Water Security Agency studied flooding in an area that includes Corman Park No. 344 (2024); open its map to see which streets lie in a flood zone.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Saskatoon Flood Mapping Study | Water Security Agency | 2024 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%; Corman Park No. 344 is one of them.
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 Corman Park No. 344 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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Little shaking expected in Corman Park No. 344: $0.006 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.
0.2 times the typical $0.030: Corman Park No. 344’s $0.006 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in Saskatchewan: Corman Park No. 344’s $0.006 against $0.006; Weyburn reaches $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.
88% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Corman Park No. 344.
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 Corman Park No. 344’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 Corman Park No. 344: 6.6% over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Measured across the Saskatoon RHA: radon tests
6.6% of tested homes around Corman Park No. 344 were over the guideline, much like the typical Canadian town at 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Fewer homes top the guideline around Corman Park No. 344 (6.6%) than in the typical town in Saskatchewan (9.1%).
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 Corman Park No. 344 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Corman Park No. 344 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 Corman Park No. 344
Alerts for Corman Park No. 344 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Corman Park No. 344 to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Corman Park No. 344
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corman Park No. 344 | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Parkridge 4,518 · 4.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Blairmore Suburban Centre 7,411 · 4.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Pacific Heights 3,770 · 5.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Fairhaven 6,536 · 5.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Confederation Park 5,771 · 5.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Dundonald 2,855 · 6.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
The fire record around Fairhaven is a touch heavier than Corman Park No. 344’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Corman Park No. 344 faces
What to do about the hazards Corman Park No. 344 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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Corman Park No. 344 without grading them.
- 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 Corman Park No. 344 until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Corman Park No. 344’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Corman Park No. 344’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Corman Park No. 344
Is Corman Park No. 344 at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.2% of the land around Corman Park No. 344 since 1986 (last in 2023); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Does Corman Park No. 344 flood?
344 on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is radon a problem in Corman Park No. 344?
Around Corman Park No. 344, 76 survey homes were tested and 6.6% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Corman Park No. 344’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
344 A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Corman Park No. 344?
About $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Corman Park No. 344.
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).