Hazard risk in Dalmeny is lower than in 92% of Canadian towns
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Dalmeny, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% 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). Radon around Dalmeny is ordinary for Canada: 6.6% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Dalmeny grades A for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Dalmeny’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Dalmeny: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Dalmeny faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Dalmeny: A
Two inputs always count for Dalmeny, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Only 76 homes were tested in the survey area, so the radon share is rough. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Wildfire is rare near Dalmeny: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Dalmeny’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.000% of the land around Dalmeny each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
Only 0% of the land within 25 km of Dalmeny is forest fuel, and 0% close in.
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
Fire has taken almost none of the land around Dalmeny, as for 55 of the 105 towns in Saskatchewan; La Loche tops the list at 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.
Only 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; Dalmeny, at a rounded zero, is far from them.
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 Dalmeny
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Dalmeny: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Dalmeny on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Saskatchewan, 55% of towns against 58% nationally, and Dalmeny has none.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Dalmeny’s homes are at risk.
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 Dalmeny: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.2 times the typical $0.030: Dalmeny’s $0.006 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Dalmeny ($0.006) matches the middle in Saskatchewan ($0.006), far from Weyburn’s $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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (88%) face more earthquake damage than Dalmeny.
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 Dalmeny’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 Dalmeny: 6.6% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Radon tests for the Saskatoon RHA
The survey area of Dalmeny reads 6.6%, a shade from the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Against the typical town in Saskatchewan (9.1%), the area around Dalmeny has fewer high tests: 6.6%.
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 Dalmeny 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 Dalmeny as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Dalmeny
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Dalmeny; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Dalmeny come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Dalmeny
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalmeny | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Martensville 11,808 · 9.9 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Langham 1,793 · 12 km | Low | $0.007 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Warman 14,245 · 13 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Osler 1,473 · 17 km | Low | $0.005 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Laird No. 404 1,488 · 19 km | Low | $0.005 | 6.6% | None listed |
Among its neighbours Dalmeny has the most fire on record (low); Martensville follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Dalmeny faces
What to do about the hazards Dalmeny 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 Dalmeny floods.
- 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 Dalmeny sits in.
- 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 Dalmeny’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Dalmeny’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 Dalmeny
Is radon a problem in Dalmeny?
Around Dalmeny, 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 big is the earthquake risk in Dalmeny?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Dalmeny $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is Dalmeny’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Dalmeny A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Dalmeny at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Dalmeny (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
Does Dalmeny flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Dalmeny’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
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).