Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Electoral Area E, East Kootenay, 19% of tested homes have radon above the guideline
Some 7.9% of the land within 25 km of Electoral Area E, East Kootenay has burned since 1986; at 0.21% a year that is moderate, not high. Shaking is about as much of a worry in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay as in most places, at $0.025 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Hazard risk gives Electoral Area E, East Kootenay a grade of C; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area E, East Kootenay: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area E, East Kootenay faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Electoral Area E, East Kootenay grades C for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Some fire around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay: 7.9% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 2.3% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The yearly burn rate around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay is 0.21%, above 0.000% for the typical Canadian town but under the high band.
Forest fuel is spread evenly around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay: 52% within 5 km, 53% 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
In the top quarter in British Columbia: Electoral Area E, East Kootenay ranks 33rd of 256 at 0.21% a year, with Oliver first at 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.
Moderate puts Electoral Area E, East Kootenay above most of Canada’s 2,610 towns, yet 2.1% rank high or very high and 5.4% share its band.
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, East Kootenay
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area E, East Kootenay, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Electoral Area E, East Kootenay, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Missing from a well-mapped province: Electoral Area E, East Kootenay has no study, where 76% of towns in British Columbia have one against 58% nationally.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Electoral Area E, East Kootenay floods.
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.”
Ordinary seismic risk in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay: $0.025 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.
Nothing unusual about Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s ground: $0.025 against a typical $0.030, 0.8 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in British Columbia: Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s $0.025 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.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Electoral Area E, East Kootenay (53%).
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 model counts damage to Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
19% of homes tested around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s survey area reads 19% over the guideline, well past the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay (19%) than in the typical town in British Columbia (1.8%); 2.9% went over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
More high tests than most: Electoral Area E, East Kootenay sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Not measured by town: radon tests (the East Kootenay health region)
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area E, East Kootenay
Alerts for Electoral Area E, East 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 E, East 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)
Get ready for what Electoral Area E, East Kootenay faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area E, East 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?
- 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. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Electoral Area E, East Kootenay sits in.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay?
19% of the 105 homes Health Canada tested around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
Is Electoral Area E, East Kootenay at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s band is moderate, with 7.9% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2025), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay?
Expected earthquake damage in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay comes to $0.025 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Does Electoral Area E, East Kootenay flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Electoral Area E, East Kootenay (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
How is Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s Hazard risk grade is C, 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).