Photo: Yuet Man Lee · CC BY-SA 4.0Earthquakes are Broadview’s biggest hazard: $0.36 of damage a year per $1,000 of buildings, 12 times the norm
Little of the land around Broadview has burned: 0.2% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.004% a year. In Health Canada’s survey, just 0% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Broadview grades B for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Broadview’s hazards
For Broadview, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Broadview faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Broadview: B
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Broadview with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #35 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,485 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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.
Little of the land around Broadview has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0.2% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Broadview’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low: the land around Broadview burns at 0.004% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Fire has stayed at least 10 km from Broadview’s homes since 1986.
Homes in Broadview sit on open or built-up ground (1.6% forest fuel within 5 km); the wider 25 km holds 38%.
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 Broadview (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.
Broadview is in the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 7.5% sit in moderate or 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Broadview
Flood studies whose area touches Broadview, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Broadview, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Broadview has no flood study on file, though 76% of towns in British Columbia do (Canada: 58%).
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 Broadview 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.”
High seismic risk in Broadview: $0.36 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.
At $0.36 per $1,000, Broadview carries roughly 12 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030).
Broadview doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Burnaby.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Broadview’s $0.36 is close to the median in British Columbia, $0.36; Duncan is highest at $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.
Only 4.9% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Broadview.
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 Broadview 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).
0% of homes tested around Broadview are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Where the typical Canadian town has 6.6% of homes over the guideline, Broadview’s area has fewer, 0%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Broadview’s area, at 0%, is below the median in British Columbia (1.8%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Radon rarely tops the guideline around Broadview, as for 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 63% see more.
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 Broadview’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 Broadview
Alerts for Broadview 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Broadview are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Broadview
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadview | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Garden Village 6,492 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Renfrew-Collingwood 23,392 · 1.6 km | Low | $0.43 | 1.2% | None listed |
| Collingwood 18,399 · 2.0 km | Low | $0.43 | 1.2% | None listed |
| Brentwood 22,170 · 2.2 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Deer Lake 8,417 · 2.5 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Norquay Village 11,287 · 2.7 km | Low | $0.43 | 1.2% | None listed |
Garden Village (low) has the heaviest fire record of Broadview’s neighbours, and Broadview (low) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Broadview faces
What to do about the hazards Broadview 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. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Broadview 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 Broadview’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- 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 Broadview until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Broadview, 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 Broadview
Does Broadview flood?
Nothing is listed for Broadview on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How big is the earthquake risk in Broadview?
Expected earthquake damage in Broadview comes to $0.36 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is radon a problem in Broadview?
In Health Canada’s survey, 0% of 108 homes tested in Broadview’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Is Broadview at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.2% of the land within 25 km of Broadview has burned since 1986, the last in 2022, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
How is Broadview’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Broadview’s Hazard risk grade is B, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
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).