Photo: George Dean · CC BY-SA 3.0Hazard risk in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako is higher than in 98% of Canadian towns
Fire is a regular visitor: 19% of the land within 25 km of Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako has burned since 1986 (0.50% a year). Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.011 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). In Health Canada’s survey, 12% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako grades D− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s hazards
For Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Electoral Area E, 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 E, Bulkley-Nechako: D−
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
9.8% of the land near Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s homes has burned since 1986, 19% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
At 0.50% of the land a year, Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s burn rate is high, many times the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
60% of the land within 5 km of Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako is forest fuel, close to the 60% 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
At 0.50% a year, Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako is near the top in British Columbia: 9th of 256, behind Oliver (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.
Just 1.9% of Canada’s 2,610 towns burn fast enough for the high band where Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako sits; 0.2% burn faster.
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 E, Bulkley-Nechako
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
No flood study on the national inventory covers Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako; ask the municipality, which is the authority for its flood maps.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in British Columbia, 76% of towns against 58% nationally, but none in the inventory touches Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako.
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 Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’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.”
Low seismic risk in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako: $0.011 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s $0.011 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.4 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in British Columbia: Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s $0.011 against a median of $0.36; Duncan has $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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 85% of its 2,611 towns sit above Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Test for radon in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako: 12% of area homes were over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Northern Interior health region
Radon runs above the typical Canadian town (6.6%) in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s area, at 12%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Electoral Area E, 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.
The 10–20% band holds 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, Electoral Area E, 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.
Neighbouring homes in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area E, 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako faces
What to do about the hazards Electoral Area E, 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. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako until then.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako
Is Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako at risk of wildfire?
Yes, by Canadian standards: Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s band is high, with 19% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2023), so wildfire counts against its Risk grade.
Does Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako flood?
Nothing is listed for Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako?
In Health Canada’s survey, 12% of 208 homes tested in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako?
About $0.011 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako.
How is Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area E, Bulkley-Nechako grades D− 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).