Around Regent Park, 25% of tested homes have radon above the guideline
Fire has left almost no mark near Regent Park: 0% of the land 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. Hazard risk gives Regent Park a grade of C+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Regent Park’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Regent Park: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Regent 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 Regent Park: C+
Seismic risk and radon set Regent Park’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #74 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #2,005 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Little of the land around Regent Park has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Regent Park’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Next to the typical Canadian town (0.000% a year), Regent Park’s 0.000% is in the low band.
Forest makes up 0% of the land within 5 km of Regent Park and 0% within 25 km, little for a forest fire to run through.
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
To three decimals the burn rate around Regent Park is zero, as for 54 of the 104 towns in Saskatchewan, while La Loche reaches 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%; Regent Park, 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.
A flood study covers Regent Park, from Water Security Agency: 1 on the inventory
Flood studies whose area touches Regent Park, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Water Security Agency holds the flood mapping that covers Regent Park (2025), linked below.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regina Flood Mapping Study | Water Security Agency | 2025 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study sets Regent 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.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Regent Park floods.
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 Regent Park just $0.014 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
At $0.014 per $1,000, Regent Park carries 0.5 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Regina, Regent Park included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in Saskatchewan peaks in Weyburn ($0.033); Regent 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 73% of its 2,611 towns sit above Regent Park.
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 Regent Park’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).
Test for radon in Regent Park: 25% of area homes were over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
At 25% over the guideline, the area around Regent Park beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Nobody publishes radon tests for Regent Park alone, so this card uses the figure for the Regina Qu'Appelle RHA.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Regent Park, 25% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 4.3% over 600, against a median of 9.1% in Saskatchewan.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
One home in five or more tests over the guideline around Regent Park; 3.1% of Canada’s 2,611 towns are in that band and 1.5% 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.
One home in Regent Park can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Regent Park
Alerts for Regent Park 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 Regent Park 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)
Hazards in the places around Regent Park
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regent Park | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Coronation Park 7,307 · 0.9 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Normanview Residents Group 3,916 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Normanview West 2,866 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Rosemont/Mount Royal 10,497 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| North Central 9,124 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge 9,325 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Regent Park (low), with Coronation Park next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Regent Park faces
Practical steps for Regent Park’s hazards, most pressing first.
- 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
- 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 Regent Park until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Regent Park’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Regent Park without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Regent Park’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Regent Park
Does Regent Park flood?
A flood study covers Regent Park on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
How big is the earthquake risk in Regent Park?
Expected earthquake damage in Regent Park comes to $0.014 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Regent Park at risk of wildfire?
No meaningful wildfire history near Regent Park: 0% of nearby land since 1986, band low.
How is Regent Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Regent Park’s Hazard risk grade is C+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Regent Park?
25% of the 94 homes Health Canada tested around Regent Park topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).