Photo: Ryan Durand · CC BY 4.0On hazards, Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako comes out behind 98% of Canadian towns
Wildfire is a real hazard for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako: 25% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.64% a year, in the high band. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.010 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. More homes than usual carry radon here, 12% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako grades D− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area D, 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 D, Bulkley-Nechako: D−
Seismic risk and radon set Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
A high wildfire band for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako: 3.9% within 5 km, 25% within 25 km
Past fire around Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.64% of the land a year, Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s burn rate is high, many times the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Near or far, forest fuel covers a similar share around Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako: 56% within 5 km and 57% 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 256
In the top quarter in British Columbia: Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako ranks 4th of 256 at 0.64% a year, with Oliver first 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.
High is rare: 1.9% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako among them, with 0.2% higher still.
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 Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in British Columbia reaches 76% of towns, beside 58% across Canada, but not Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping is shown for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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 Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako: $0.010 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako it is only $0.010, 0.3 times as much.
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 D, 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.
Earthquakes cost less around Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako than in 86% of Canada’s 2,611 towns.
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 D, 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).
Radon runs high around Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Measured across the Northern Interior health region: radon tests
Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s area, at 12%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako (12%) than in the typical town in British Columbia (1.8%); 1.9% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
The 10–20% band holds 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako among them; 4.6% rank above.
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.
One home in Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako
Alerts for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako 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 Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s hazards, most pressing first.
- 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. NRCan’s inventory says where flood mapping exists, not where water goes; the map’s owner is the authority for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako?
The area’s survey found 12% of 208 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako $0.010 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
How is Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako D−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
Is Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako at risk of wildfire?
Wildfire is Electoral Area D, Bulkley-Nechako’s main hazard, band high: 25% of the land within 25 km burned between 1986 and 2025.
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).