Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay, 29% of tested homes have radon above the guideline
The burn rate around Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay is 0.08% a year (3.2% of the land within 25 km since 1986), a moderate band. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.008 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay a grade of C+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay 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 G, Central Kootenay: C+
For Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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 moderate wildfire record for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay: 3.2% within 25 km burned, 0.7% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Moderate: the land around Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay burns at 0.08% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
More forest grows near Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s homes (78% within 5 km) than across 25 km (71%).
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
Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay ranks 57th of the 256 towns in British Columbia for burn rate, at 0.08% a year; Oliver leads with 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.
Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay is in the moderate band, which holds 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 2.1% 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.
2 flood studies cover Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay, the newest from Regional District of Central Kootenay
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The newest of 2 studies covering Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay is Regional District of Central Kootenay’s, from 2020; open its map to see the zones.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| RDCK Floodplain and Steep Creek Study, Salmo River FINAL | Regional District of Central Kootenay | 2020 | final |
| Beaver Creek: Beaver Falls to Meadows Floodplain Mapping (including Archibald and Marsh creeks) | 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 G, Central Kootenay is among them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
No single decade dominates: 2 studies for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay between the 1990s and the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay.
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.
Low seismic risk in Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay: $0.008 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.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay it is only $0.008, 0.3 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s $0.008 sits under the median in British Columbia, $0.36, and well under Duncan’s $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: 87% of its 2,611 towns sit above Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay.
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 G, Central Kootenay’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).
Test for radon in Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay: 29% of area homes were over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s area, at 29%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places. Nobody publishes radon tests for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay alone, so this card uses the figure for the Kootenay/Boundary health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s area, at 29%, is above the median in British Columbia (1.8%), and 7.3% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay is in the 20–30% band, which holds only 3.1% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 1.5% 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay
Alerts for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay 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. |
Evacuation orders for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay come from the municipality or the province, while CWFIS maps fire danger every day.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
How Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s neighbours compare on hazards
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay | Moderate | $0.008 | 29% | Yes |
| Salmo 1,310 · 8.0 km | Moderate | $0.010 | 29% | Yes |
Salmo burns a little more than Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay, in the same moderate band (moderate here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’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
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Shaking damage is modelled from the ground, the buildings and the odds of each quake, and published for whole subdivisions such as Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s.
- 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 G, Central Kootenay.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay
Is Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s moderate band (3.2% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay?
The area’s survey found 29% of 109 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay.
Does Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay flood?
There is flood mapping for Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
How is Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay grades C+ 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 G, Central Kootenay?
Expected earthquake damage in Electoral Area G, Central Kootenay comes to $0.008 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
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).