Burrard Inlet 3’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 2.5% of area homes over the radon guideline
Wildfire is rare near Burrard Inlet 3: 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.004% a year. Seismic risk runs high: $0.23 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Hazard risk gives Burrard Inlet 3 a grade of C+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Burrard Inlet 3’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Burrard Inlet 3: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Burrard Inlet 3 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Burrard Inlet 3: C+
The grade weighs Burrard Inlet 3’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: 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.
Wildfire is rare near Burrard Inlet 3: 0.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Burrard Inlet 3’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Around Burrard Inlet 3 fire takes 0.004% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
Fire has stayed at least 18 km from Burrard Inlet 3’s homes since 1986.
The nearer ring around Burrard Inlet 3 is less wooded (41% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (49%).
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 lower half in British Columbia: Burrard Inlet 3 at 0.004% a year, 144th of 256, far from Oliver’s 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.
Some fire is mapped around Burrard Inlet 3, but not enough to leave the low band, where 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are; 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 Burrard Inlet 3
Flood studies whose area touches Burrard Inlet 3, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Nationally, Burrard Inlet 3 has no listed flood study; the municipality is the place to ask.
Towns with a flood study on file
Burrard Inlet 3 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 studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Burrard Inlet 3.
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 Burrard Inlet 3: $0.23 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 $0.23 per $1,000, Burrard Inlet 3 carries roughly 7.6 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in British Columbia: Burrard Inlet 3’s $0.23 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.
Burrard Inlet 3 is in the top tenth of Canada’s 2,611 towns for earthquake risk; 6.4% rank 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 Burrard Inlet 3’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).
2.5% of homes tested around Burrard Inlet 3 are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Source area for radon tests: the North Shore/Coast Garibaldi health region
Burrard Inlet 3’s area, at 2.5%, is below the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, though any one home can still be high.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Burrard Inlet 3 (2.5%) than in the typical town in British Columbia (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 Burrard Inlet 3; 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.
The share describes the area, not a house: in Burrard Inlet 3 as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Burrard Inlet 3
Alerts for Burrard Inlet 3 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 Burrard Inlet 3 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)
How Burrard Inlet 3’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burrard Inlet 3 | Low | $0.23 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Heights 22,141 · 3.6 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | Yes |
| Lochdale 7,463 · 3.9 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Holdom 7,976 · 4.9 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Montecito 10,734 · 4.9 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| Brentwood 22,170 · 5.0 km | Low | $0.36 | 0% | None listed |
| North Vancouver 97,845 · 5.4 km | Low | $0.39 | 2.5% | Yes |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Burrard Inlet 3 (low), with Heights next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Burrard Inlet 3 faces
What to do about the hazards Burrard Inlet 3 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 Burrard Inlet 3.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Burrard Inlet 3’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Burrard Inlet 3’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Burrard Inlet 3 takes its 2007 health region’s share.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Burrard Inlet 3
How big is the earthquake risk in Burrard Inlet 3?
Expected earthquake damage in Burrard Inlet 3 comes to $0.23 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Does Burrard Inlet 3 flood?
Nothing is listed for Burrard Inlet 3 on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Burrard Inlet 3?
In Health Canada’s survey, 2.5% of 81 homes tested in Burrard Inlet 3’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How is Burrard Inlet 3’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Burrard Inlet 3’s Hazard risk grade is C+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Burrard Inlet 3 at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.1% of the land within 25 km of Burrard Inlet 3 has burned since 1986, the last in 2022, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
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).