Photo: Jason Whiting · CC BY-SA 4.0Lloydminster (Part)’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 11% of area homes over the radon guideline
Since 1986 almost nothing has burned near Lloydminster (Part): 0% of the land within 25 km, or 0.000% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.004 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Lloydminster (Part) grades A− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Lloydminster (Part)’s hazards
For Lloydminster (Part), from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Lloydminster (Part) faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Lloydminster (Part) grades A− for hazard risk
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Lloydminster (Part) with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #54 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #632 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near Lloydminster (Part): 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km
Past fire around Lloydminster (Part)’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Low: the land around Lloydminster (Part) burns at 0.000% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0% within 25 km, the land around Lloydminster (Part) gives a fire little to burn.
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
Of the 104 towns in Saskatchewan, 54 have a burn rate that rounds to zero, Lloydminster (Part) among them; La Loche leads at 1.94% a year.
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.
The low band holds 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, and Lloydminster (Part) sits at its very bottom; only 7.5% are 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.
No flood study is listed for Lloydminster (Part)
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Lloydminster (Part): who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Nationally, Lloydminster (Part) has no listed flood study; the municipality is the place to ask.
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%, and Lloydminster (Part) is not among 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 Lloydminster (Part) 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.”
Low seismic risk in Lloydminster (Part): $0.004 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Lloydminster (Part)’s $0.004 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.1 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.004, Lloydminster (Part) is below the typical town in Saskatchewan ($0.006); Weyburn is highest at $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.
Nearly every one of Canada’s 2,611 towns (98%) expects more shaking damage than Lloydminster (Part).
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Lloydminster (Part).
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Radon runs high around Lloydminster (Part): 11% of tested homes 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 Prairie North RHA
At 11% over the guideline, the area around Lloydminster (Part) beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The typical town in Saskatchewan has 9.1% over 200 Bq/m³; Lloydminster (Part)’s area has 11%, much the same.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Lloydminster (Part) is in the 10–20% band, with 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; only 4.6% are 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.
Whatever Lloydminster (Part)’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Lloydminster (Part)
Alerts for Lloydminster (Part) 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 Lloydminster (Part) 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)
How Lloydminster (Part)’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lloydminster (Part) | Low | $0.004 | 11% | None listed |
| Lloydminster (Part) 21,267 · 1.9 km | Low | $0.005 | 5.2% | None listed |
| Wilton No. 472 1,583 · 9.6 km | Low | $0.004 | 11% | Yes |
| Britannia No. 502 2,212 · 18 km | Low | $0.004 | 11% | None listed |
Britannia No. 502 burns a little more than Lloydminster (Part), in the same low band (low here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Lloydminster (Part) faces
What to do about the hazards Lloydminster (Part) 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
- Wildfire counts one way. For Lloydminster (Part), wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Lloydminster (Part) takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Lloydminster (Part)’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- 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 Lloydminster (Part).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Lloydminster (Part)
Is radon a problem in Lloydminster (Part)?
In Health Canada’s survey, 11% of 103 homes tested in Lloydminster (Part)’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Is Lloydminster (Part) at risk of wildfire?
No meaningful wildfire history near Lloydminster (Part): 0% of nearby land since 1986, band low.
How big is the earthquake risk in Lloydminster (Part)?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Lloydminster (Part)’s buildings lose $0.004 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is Lloydminster (Part)’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Lloydminster (Part) A−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Lloydminster (Part) flood?
Nothing is listed for Lloydminster (Part) on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
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).