Photo: daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Brevoort Park faces fewer hazards than 91% of Canadian towns
Fire seldom reaches Brevoort Park: since 1986, 0.6% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.02% a year). Seismic risk runs low: $0.006 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Radon is about average around Brevoort Park: 6.6% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Brevoort Park grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Brevoort Park’s hazards
For Brevoort Park, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Brevoort 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 Brevoort Park: A
Two inputs always count for Brevoort Park, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #9 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #299 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The radon share rests on 76 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Brevoort Park: 0.6% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Brevoort Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
In a typical year 0.02% of the land near Brevoort Park burns; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%, and both are low.
No fire has burned within 5 km of Brevoort Park’s homes since 1986; the nearest burn is 21 km away.
Land that isn’t forest covers nearly all the ground around Brevoort Park: forest fuel is 0% 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
La Loche burns fastest in Saskatchewan at 1.94% a year; Brevoort Park, at 0.02%, ranks 9th of 104.
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.
Brevoort Park is in the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 7.5% sit in moderate or higher.
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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Brevoort Park
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Brevoort Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Brevoort Park, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in Saskatchewan reaches 55% of towns, below the 58% across Canada, and not Brevoort Park.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Brevoort Park.
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 Brevoort Park: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Brevoort Park’s $0.006 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
Shaking damage around Brevoort Park runs at $0.006 a year, near the $0.006 of the typical town in Saskatchewan; Weyburn has $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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 88% of its 2,611 towns sit above Brevoort 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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Brevoort Park.
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 Saskatoon
Some radon around Brevoort Park: 6.6% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
The survey area of Brevoort Park reads 6.6%, a shade from the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Saskatchewan is 9.1% over 200 Bq/m³; around Brevoort Park it is 6.6%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
26% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Brevoort Park’s 5–10% band, which holds 37%.
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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Brevoort Park’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: the Saskatoon RHA
Where to get warnings in Brevoort Park
Alerts for Brevoort 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. |
Evacuation orders for Brevoort Park come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Brevoort Park
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brevoort Park | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Nutana Urban Centre 5,926 · 0.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Holliston 2,963 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Eastview 7,536 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Greystone Heights 6,402 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Nutana Park 3,045 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Lakewood 14,880 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
Brevoort Park’s low band tops its neighbours; Nutana Urban Centre is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Brevoort Park faces
What to do about the hazards Brevoort 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Brevoort Park floods.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Brevoort Park sits in.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Brevoort Park’s included.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Brevoort Park.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Brevoort Park
How is Brevoort Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Brevoort Park A, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Does Brevoort Park flood?
Nothing is listed for Brevoort Park on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
Is Brevoort Park at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.6% of the land within 25 km of Brevoort Park has burned since 1986, the last in 2023, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
How big is the earthquake risk in Brevoort Park?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Brevoort Park $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is radon a problem in Brevoort Park?
In Health Canada’s survey, 6.6% of 76 homes tested in Brevoort Park’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
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).