Prince Albert No. 461 faces fewer hazards than 93% of Canadian towns
Wildfire is a moderate presence around Prince Albert No. 461: 7.7% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.21% a year, short of the band that counts against Risk. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.005 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. About as many homes carry radon around Prince Albert No. 461 as elsewhere, 7.4% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Prince Albert No. 461 grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Prince Albert No. 461’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Prince Albert No. 461: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Prince Albert No. 461 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Prince Albert No. 461: A
The grade weighs Prince Albert No. 461’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: #4 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #277 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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.
A moderate wildfire record for Prince Albert No. 461: 7.7% within 25 km burned, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Prince Albert No. 461’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The yearly burn rate around Prince Albert No. 461 is 0.21%, above 0.000% for the typical Canadian town but under the high band.
Close to Prince Albert No. 461 there is little to burn (3.2% forest fuel within 5 km), but 8.3% of the land within 25 km is forest.
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
The land around Prince Albert No. 461 burns at 0.21% a year, the 5th highest rate of 104 towns in Saskatchewan; La Loche tops it 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 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Prince Albert No. 461, and 2.1% sit 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.
A flood study covers Prince Albert No. 461, from City of Prince Albert: 1 on the inventory
Flood studies whose area touches Prince Albert No. 461, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
City of Prince Albert studied flooding in an area that includes Prince Albert No. 461 (2019); open its map to see which streets lie in a flood zone.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Albert | City of Prince Albert | 2019 | final · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%; Prince Albert No. 461 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 Prince Albert No. 461 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 Prince Albert No. 461: $0.005 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.
Prince Albert No. 461’s $0.005 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.2 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Prince Albert No. 461 ($0.005) 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.
Nearly every one of Canada’s 2,611 towns (96%) expects more shaking damage than Prince Albert No. 461.
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 model counts damage to Prince Albert No. 461’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
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 Prince Albert No. 461: 7.4% over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Source area for radon tests: the Prince Albert Parkland RHA
Prince Albert No. 461’s area, at 7.4%, is close to the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Prince Albert No. 461’s area, at 7.4%, is close to the median 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 Prince Albert No. 461 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 Prince Albert No. 461 as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Prince Albert No. 461
Alerts for Prince Albert No. 461 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 Prince Albert No. 461 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 Prince Albert No. 461’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Albert No. 461 | Moderate | $0.005 | 7.4% | Yes |
| Prince Albert 40,728 · 2.5 km | Moderate | $0.004 | 7.4% | Yes |
| Buckland No. 491 3,550 · 9.9 km | High | $0.005 | 7.4% | Yes |
Next door, Buckland No. 491 sits in a high fire band; Prince Albert No. 461 is moderate.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Prince Albert No. 461 faces
What to do about the hazards Prince Albert No. 461 faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Prince Albert No. 461 is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Prince Albert No. 461’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Prince Albert No. 461.
- 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 Prince Albert No. 461’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Prince Albert No. 461
How big is the earthquake risk in Prince Albert No. 461?
Expected earthquake damage in Prince Albert No. 461 comes to $0.005 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Prince Albert No. 461 at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 7.7% of the land within 25 km of Prince Albert No. 461 has burned since 1986, the last in 2025, a moderate band that leaves Risk alone.
Is radon a problem in Prince Albert No. 461?
In Health Canada’s survey, 7.4% of 108 homes tested in Prince Albert No. 461’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How is Prince Albert No. 461’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Prince Albert No. 461 grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Prince Albert No. 461 flood?
There is flood mapping for Prince Albert No. 461 on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
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).