Photo: HidradenitisAwareness · CC BY-SA 4.0High radon around Albert Park: 25% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³
The burned-area map is nearly blank around Albert Park, 0% within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.014 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Albert Park grades C+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Albert Park’s hazards
For Albert Park, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Albert Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Albert Park: C+
The grade weighs Albert Park’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: #74 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #2,005 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.
Wildfire is rare near Albert Park: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Albert Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Albert Park burns at 0.000% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Albert Park: forest fuel is 0.1% 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
Of the 104 towns in Saskatchewan, 54 have a burn rate that rounds to zero, Albert Park 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.
Most of the country’s 2,610 towns are low-band (92%, against 7.5% above); around Albert Park, burning rounds to zero.
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.
2 flood studies cover Albert Park, the newest from Water Security Agency
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Albert Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For Albert Park the inventory points to 2 studies, most recently Water Security Agency’s in 2025.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regina Flood Mapping Study | Water Security Agency | 2025 | final |
| Regina | Water Security Agency | 2020 | under review · not public |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study sets Albert Park apart in Saskatchewan, where 55% of towns have one (Canada: 58%).
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Albert Park’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Albert Park just $0.014 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.5 times the typical $0.030: Albert Park’s $0.014 is low for Canada.
Albert Park doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Regina.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Saskatchewan peaks in Weyburn ($0.033); Albert Park, at $0.014, sits above the median of $0.006.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Albert Park is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 73% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 Albert Park.
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 Albert Park: 25% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
At 25% over the guideline, the area around Albert Park beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Albert Park’s area, at 25%, is above the median in Saskatchewan (9.1%), and 4.3% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Albert Park is in the 20–30% band, which holds only 3.1% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 1.5% 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 Albert Park’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). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Regina Qu'Appelle RHA
Where to get warnings in Albert Park
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Albert Park; 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. |
For fires near Albert Park, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Albert Park’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Park | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Whitmore Park 6,603 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Hillsdale 6,792 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Harbour Landing 14,402 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Lakeview 7,770 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Dewdney Place 3,021 · 3.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Cathedral Village 7,311 · 4.2 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
Whitmore Park (low) has the heaviest fire record of Albert Park’s neighbours, and Albert Park (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Albert Park faces
What to do about the hazards Albert Park 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Albert Park’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Albert Park, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- 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 Albert Park.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Albert Park is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Albert Park
Is radon a problem in Albert Park?
Around Albert Park, 94 survey homes were tested and 25% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Is Albert Park at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Albert Park since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How is Albert Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Albert Park C+, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Albert Park?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Albert Park’s buildings lose $0.014 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Does Albert Park flood?
There is flood mapping for Albert Park 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).