A flood study covers Electoral Area F, Cariboo: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from Fraser Basin Council
Wildfire is a moderate presence around Electoral Area F, Cariboo: 5.1% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.13% a year, short of the band that counts against Risk. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.015 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon is about average around Electoral Area F, Cariboo: 6.4% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Electoral Area F, Cariboo grades A− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s hazards
For Electoral Area F, Cariboo, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Electoral Area F, Cariboo faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Electoral Area F, Cariboo grades A− for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #8 of 254 in British Columbia and #586 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
A moderate wildfire record for Electoral Area F, Cariboo: 5.1% within 25 km burned, 6.4% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Moderate: the land around Electoral Area F, Cariboo burns at 0.13% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Within 5 km of Electoral Area F, Cariboo, 62% of the land is forest fuel; widen the ring to 25 km and it is 77%.
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
Oliver burns fastest in British Columbia at 0.98% a year; Electoral Area F, Cariboo, at 0.13%, ranks 48th of 255.
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.
Only 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Electoral Area F, Cariboo, and 2.1% sit above it.
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.
Flooding around Electoral Area F, Cariboo is mapped in 2 studies, the newest by Fraser Basin Council
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area F, Cariboo: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For Electoral Area F, Cariboo the inventory points to 2 studies, most recently Fraser Basin Council’s in 2021.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cariboo Regional District Flood Hazard Assessment | Fraser Basin Council | 2021 | final |
| Williams Lake Floodplain Mapping | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1990 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in British Columbia: 76% of towns have one, against 58% nationally, and Electoral Area F, Cariboo is among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood mapping around Electoral Area F, Cariboo has come in steps: 2 studies from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Electoral Area F, Cariboo.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Electoral Area F, Cariboo.
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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Electoral Area F, Cariboo just $0.015 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Electoral Area F, Cariboo it is only $0.015, 0.5 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in British Columbia peaks in Duncan ($1.33); Electoral Area F, Cariboo, at $0.015, is below the median of $0.36.
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 F, Cariboo than in 72% 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).
For Electoral Area F, Cariboo the model prices shaking damage to buildings, nothing more.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
Some radon around Electoral Area F, Cariboo: 6.4% of area homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s area 6.4%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Behind radon tests sits data gathered across the Thompson/Cariboo health region, with Electoral Area F, Cariboo one part of it.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
The median in British Columbia is 1.8% over 200 Bq/m³; the survey area around Electoral Area F, Cariboo has 6.4%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Electoral Area F, Cariboo, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% are 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.
Radon varies from house to house in Electoral Area F, Cariboo, so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Electoral Area F, Cariboo
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area F, Cariboo; 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 F, Cariboo, 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)
Get ready for what Electoral Area F, Cariboo faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area F, Cariboo’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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Electoral Area F, Cariboo takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- 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 Electoral Area F, Cariboo.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Electoral Area F, Cariboo, 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 F, Cariboo
Is Electoral Area F, Cariboo at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s moderate band (5.1% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
How is Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area F, Cariboo grades A− for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area F, Cariboo?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area F, Cariboo $0.015 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Electoral Area F, Cariboo flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Electoral Area F, Cariboo; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area F, Cariboo?
The area’s survey found 6.4% of 109 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area F, Cariboo.
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).