Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0Nutana Park faces fewer hazards than 91% of Canadian towns
Little of the land around Nutana Park has burned: 0.6% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.02% a year. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon around Nutana Park is ordinary for Canada: 6.6% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Nutana Park a grade of A; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Nutana Park’s hazards
For Nutana Park, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Nutana Park faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Nutana Park grades A for hazard risk
For Nutana Park, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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 Nutana Park: 0.6% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Nutana Park’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Around Nutana Park fire takes 0.02% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Nothing inside 5 km of Nutana Park’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 19 km off.
With 0% forest fuel within 5 km and 0% within 25 km, the land around Nutana Park gives a fire little to burn.
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 Nutana Park burns at 0.02% a year, the 9th 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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Nutana Park among them, though its rate is above zero; 7.5% rank 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 Nutana Park
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Nutana Park: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Nutana Park, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are thinner in Saskatchewan, 55% of towns against 58% nationally, and Nutana Park has none.
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 Nutana 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.”
Low seismic risk in Nutana Park: $0.006 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.006 per $1,000, Nutana Park carries 0.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
For earthquake risk, the only official count covers all of the city of Saskatoon, Nutana Park included.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk around Nutana Park ($0.006) 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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (88%) face more earthquake damage than Nutana 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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Nutana Park is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
6.6% of homes tested around Nutana Park are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
The survey area of Nutana Park reads 6.6%, a shade from the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%. Figures for radon tests are published for the Saskatoon RHA as a whole, not for Nutana Park alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Nutana Park’s area, at 6.6%, is below 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.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Nutana Park, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% 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.
Neighbouring homes in Nutana Park can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Nutana Park
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Nutana 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 Nutana 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 Nutana 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutana Park | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Adelaide/Churchill 2,652 · 1.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Holliston 2,963 · 1.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Eastview 7,536 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Nutana Urban Centre 5,926 · 1.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Brevoort Park 3,485 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Stonebridge 15,230 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
Among its neighbours Nutana Park has the most fire on record (low); Adelaide/Churchill follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Nutana Park faces
Practical steps for Nutana 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- 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 Nutana Park until then.
- 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 Nutana Park.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Nutana Park without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Nutana Park’s included.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Nutana Park
Does Nutana Park flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Nutana Park (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Nutana Park?
6.6% of the 76 homes Health Canada tested around Nutana Park topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Nutana Park’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Nutana Park grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Nutana Park at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Nutana Park’s band is low, with 0.6% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2023), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Nutana Park?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Nutana Park $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).