Calgary Flood 2013 Map

In this storymap, explore your flood risk by looking at a flood map, regulatory land use zones, historical floods, recovery and mitigation projects, the city’s flood resilience plan, how to prepare for flooding to reduce the risk of damages, the impacts of our changing climate and the city’s climate resilience strategy. Sadly, five lives were lost and there was as much as $6 billion in financial losses and property damage across southern alberta. The flood extents line was manually delineated from an aerial photo taken on june 22, 2013, and does not represent the peak or maximum flood extents during the june 2013 flood event.

But it had not happened since the 1930s so, of course, everyone had. View calgary flood maps understanding river flows. The flood of june 2013 was the largest flood in calgary since 1932.

But it had not happened since the 1930s so, of course, everyone had.

Evacuees and people whose homes were flooded faced trauma, loss, and either rebuilding or the permanent loss of their home. The flood of june 2013 was the largest flood in calgary since 1932. A timeline of the flooding that has devastated parts of alberta. The approximate flows at the time the aerial photo was taken: