Photo: George Dean · CC BY-SA 3.0Wildfire moderate, radon 12%: how Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako stands on hazards
Wildfire is a moderate presence around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako: 5.4% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.14% a year, short of the band that counts against Risk. Seismic risk runs low: $0.010 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako: B+
The grade weighs Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Some fire around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako: 5.4% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 11% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Moderate: the land around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako burns at 0.14% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
The nearer ring around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako is less wooded (64% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (71%).
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 256
The land around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako burns at 0.14% a year, the 47th highest rate of 256 towns in British Columbia; Oliver tops it at 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.
Moderate puts Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako above most of Canada’s 2,610 towns, yet 2.1% rank high or very high and 5.4% share its band.
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 Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in British Columbia reaches 76% of towns, beside 58% across Canada, but not Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s homes are at risk.
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 Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako: $0.010 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
0.3 times the typical $0.030: Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s $0.010 is low for Canada.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in British Columbia expects $0.36 a year in shaking damage; Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako expects less, $0.010, and Duncan the most, $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.
Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 86% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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).
The loss is to Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s buildings alone, from ground shaking; infrastructure and secondary hazards are left out.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
12% of homes tested around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · The radon tests numbers here cover the Northern Interior health region
A higher share than most: 12% of tested homes around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako than in most towns in British Columbia: 12% over the guideline (1.8% is typical), 1.9% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
One test in ten or more tops the guideline around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako, as in 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 4.6% go 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.
The share describes the area, not a house: in Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako; 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 Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako, 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 Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako | Moderate | $0.010 | 12% | None listed |
| Burns Lake 2,007 · 3.3 km | Moderate | $0.008 | 12% | None listed |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako (moderate), with Burns Lake next at moderate.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako faces
What to do about the hazards Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- 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.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s.
- 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 Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako?
Around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako, 208 survey homes were tested and 12% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Does Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
Is Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 5.4% of the land around Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako since 1986 (last in 2024); at moderate, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako $0.010 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area B, Bulkley-Nechako grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
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).