Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain25% of homes tested in Whitmore Park’s area are above the radon guideline
Wildfire isn’t Whitmore Park’s worry: 0% of the land within 25 km burned 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. Whitmore Park grades C+ for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Whitmore Park’s hazards
For Whitmore Park, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Whitmore 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 Whitmore Park: C+
Two inputs always count for Whitmore Park, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
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. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Whitmore Park has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Past fire around Whitmore Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Whitmore Park at 0.000% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Whitmore 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
Little or nothing burns around Whitmore Park in a typical year; 54 of the 104 towns in Saskatchewan share that, and La Loche leads 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.
Whitmore Park shares the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, its burn rate rounding to nothing; 7.5% burn faster.
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 Whitmore Park, from Water Security Agency: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Whitmore Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For Whitmore Park the inventory points to Water Security Agency’s 2025 study, whose map is the one to check.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regina Flood Mapping Study | Water Security Agency | 2025 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan have a flood study, short of Canada’s 58%; Whitmore Park is one of them.
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 Whitmore 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.
Little shaking expected in Whitmore Park: $0.014 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.5 times the typical $0.030: Whitmore Park’s $0.014 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.014, Whitmore Park is above the typical town in Saskatchewan ($0.006); Weyburn has the most 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.
73% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Whitmore 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).
For Whitmore Park the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean). · Area behind the earthquake risk figures: the city of Regina
Radon runs high around Whitmore Park: 25% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Whitmore Park’s survey area reads 25% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Figures for radon tests are published for the Regina Qu'Appelle RHA as a whole, not for Whitmore Park alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Whitmore Park than in most towns in Saskatchewan: 25% over the guideline (9.1% is typical), 4.3% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Few of Canada’s 2,611 towns (3.1%) share the 20–30% band with Whitmore Park, and 1.5% sit above it.
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.
A low area share in Whitmore Park doesn’t clear a house, nor does a high one condemn it: test.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Whitmore Park
Alerts for Whitmore 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 Whitmore 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 Whitmore Park
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitmore Park | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Hillsdale 6,792 · 1.1 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Albert Park 12,967 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Lakeview 7,770 · 3.1 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Dewdney Place 3,021 · 3.3 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Harbour Landing 14,402 · 3.6 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
| Boothill 2,613 · 3.9 km | Low | $0.014 | 25% | Yes |
Hillsdale (low) has the heaviest fire record of Whitmore Park’s neighbours, and Whitmore Park (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Whitmore Park faces
What to do about the hazards Whitmore 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
- Wildfire counts one way. For Whitmore 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.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Whitmore Park’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Whitmore Park without grading them.
- 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 Whitmore Park until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Whitmore Park
Is radon a problem in Whitmore Park?
Around Whitmore 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 Whitmore Park at risk of wildfire?
Hardly at all on record: 0% of the land within 25 km of Whitmore Park since 1986, a low band, though small grass fires aren’t mapped.
How big is the earthquake risk in Whitmore Park?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Whitmore Park $0.014 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Whitmore Park flood?
A flood study covers Whitmore Park on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
How is Whitmore Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Whitmore Park grades C+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
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).