Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazard risk in Parkridge is lower than in 91% of Canadian towns
Wildfire is rare near Parkridge: 0.6% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.01% a year. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.006 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Radon around Parkridge is ordinary for Canada: 6.6% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Parkridge grades A for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Parkridge’s hazards
For Parkridge, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Parkridge faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Parkridge grades A for hazard risk
The grade weighs Parkridge’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: #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 Parkridge: 0.6% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Parkridge’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.01% of the land around Parkridge each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
Since 1986 the nearest fire to Parkridge’s homes came within 22 km, never inside 5 km.
Only 0% of the land within 25 km of Parkridge is forest fuel, and 0.1% close in.
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; Parkridge, at 0.01%, ranks 24th 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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Parkridge 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 Parkridge
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Parkridge: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Parkridge, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
Parkridge has no flood study on file; only 55% of towns in Saskatchewan do, against 58% across Canada.
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 Parkridge.
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.”
Little shaking expected in Parkridge: $0.006 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Parkridge’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
The median in Saskatchewan is $0.006; Parkridge, at $0.006, is right beside it, and Weyburn tops the list 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 88% of its 2,611 towns sit above Parkridge.
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 Parkridge 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). · Earthquake risk: one figure for all of the city of Saskatoon
6.6% of homes tested around Parkridge are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Parkridge’s area, at 6.6%, is close to the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town. Figures for radon tests are published for the Saskatoon RHA as a whole, not for Parkridge alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in Saskatchewan is 9.1% over 200 Bq/m³; around Parkridge 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 Parkridge’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.
Radon varies from house to house in Parkridge, so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Parkridge
Alerts for Parkridge 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Parkridge to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Parkridge’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parkridge | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Fairhaven 6,536 · 1.3 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Blairmore Suburban Centre 7,411 · 1.4 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Pacific Heights 3,770 · 1.8 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| Confederation Park 5,771 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
| South West Industrial 5,297 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | Yes |
| Meadowgreen 3,782 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.006 | 6.6% | None listed |
The fire record around Fairhaven is a touch heavier than Parkridge’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Parkridge faces
What to do about the hazards Parkridge 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. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Parkridge 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 Parkridge until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Parkridge’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 Parkridge.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Parkridge
Does Parkridge flood?
Nothing is listed for Parkridge on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How is Parkridge’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Parkridge grades A for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Parkridge?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Parkridge $0.006 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is radon a problem in Parkridge?
In Health Canada’s survey, 6.6% of 76 homes tested in Parkridge’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Is Parkridge at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.6% of the land within 25 km of Parkridge has burned since 1986, the last in 2023, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
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).