Photo: Ben Waardenburg benwubbleyou · CC0Hazards in Anmore: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 0% of tested homes
Little of the land around Anmore has burned: 0.2% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.004% a year. Seismic risk runs high: $0.19 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Hazard risk gives Anmore a grade of B; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Anmore’s hazards
For Anmore, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Anmore faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Anmore: B
The grade weighs Anmore’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: #28 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,433 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Few fires near Anmore: 0% within 5 km, 0.2% within 25 km
Past fire around Anmore’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Anmore at 0.004% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Anmore’s homes have had no fire within 5 km since 1986; the closest was 12 km away.
Forest fuel is denser close to Anmore (63% within 5 km) than further out (48% 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 British Columbia · highest of 255
Some fire is mapped around Anmore (0.004% a year), but it ranks only 144th of 255 towns in British Columbia; Oliver has 0.98%.
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, Anmore 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.
No flood study is listed for Anmore
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Anmore: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Anmore; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Missing from a well-mapped province: Anmore has no study, where 76% of towns in British Columbia have one against 58% nationally.
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 Anmore’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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Anmore $0.19 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
The typical town loses $0.030 a year to shaking; Anmore loses $0.19, 6.3 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Anmore’s $0.19 sits under the median in British Columbia, $0.36, and well under Duncan’s $1.33.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More earthquake risk than most: only 13% of Canada’s 2,611 towns are above Anmore.
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 Anmore 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).
Little radon around Anmore: 0% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
At 0% over the guideline, the area around Anmore is under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs lower around Anmore than in most towns in British Columbia: 0% against 1.8%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
The quietest radon band, under 5%, holds 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns and Anmore; 63% sit 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.
Whatever Anmore’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Fraser North health region
Where to get warnings in Anmore
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Anmore; 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Anmore, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Anmore
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anmore | Low | $0.19 | 0% | None listed |
| Port Moody 38,285 · 2.9 km | Low | $0.32 | 0% | None listed |
| Coquitlam 173,599 · 5.7 km | Low | $0.33 | 0% | Yes |
| Burnaby Mountain 9,248 · 5.9 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Lougheed 15,442 · 7.9 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | Yes |
| Lochdale 7,463 · 8.8 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Montecito 10,734 · 9.0 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
Anmore’s low band tops its neighbours; Burnaby Mountain is next (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Anmore faces
What to do about the hazards Anmore 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.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap the water heater down.
- Keep 72 hours of supplies.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
- Is earthquake cover included?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Anmore.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Anmore, 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 Anmore’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Anmore takes its 2007 health region’s share.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Anmore
Is Anmore at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 0.2% of the land around Anmore since 1986 (last in 2022); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Anmore?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Anmore $0.19 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is Anmore’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Anmore’s Hazard risk grade is B, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Anmore?
Around Anmore, 108 survey homes were tested and 0% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Does Anmore flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Anmore’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
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).