Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainHigh radon around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay: 19% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³
Wildfire is a moderate presence around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay: 4.4% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.11% a year, short of the band that counts against Risk. Seismic risk in Electoral Area G, East Kootenay sits near the middle: $0.033 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Electoral Area G, East Kootenay grades C− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s hazards
For Electoral Area G, East Kootenay, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Electoral Area G, East 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, East Kootenay: C−
Earthquake risk and radon make Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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.
Some fire around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay: 4.4% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.7% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.11% of the land a year, Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
The ring nearest Electoral Area G, East Kootenay is the most wooded: 72% forest fuel within 5 km against 61% 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
The land around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay burns at 0.11% a year, the 53rd highest rate of 256 towns in British Columbia; Oliver tops it 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.
Only 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Electoral Area G, East Kootenay, 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.
Electoral Area G, East Kootenay is on the flood map inventory: 2 studies, latest by Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area G, East Kootenay: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For Electoral Area G, East Kootenay the inventory points to 2 studies, most recently Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship’s in 2026.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floodplain Mapping Report: Columbia River (Columbia Lake to Donald) | Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship | 2026 | final |
| Columbia River: Windermere Lake - Radium Floodplain Mapping | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1982 | 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, East Kootenay 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 G, East Kootenay has come in steps: 2 studies from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Electoral Area G, East Kootenay.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s homes are at risk.
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.
Ordinary seismic risk in Electoral Area G, East Kootenay: $0.033 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Nothing unusual about Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s ground: $0.033 against a typical $0.030, 1.1 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in British Columbia: Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s $0.033 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 G, East Kootenay (48%).
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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Electoral Area G, East Kootenay.
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, East Kootenay: 19% of area homes were over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s area, at 19%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places. For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the East Kootenay health region, Electoral Area G, East Kootenay included.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay than in most towns in British Columbia: 19% over the guideline (1.8% is typical), 2.9% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
The 10–20% band holds 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, Electoral Area G, East Kootenay among them; 4.6% rank 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.
Radon varies from house to house in Electoral Area G, East Kootenay, 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 G, East Kootenay
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area G, East Kootenay; 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. |
In fire season, check CWFIS for danger and active fires around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area G, East Kootenay | Moderate | $0.033 | 19% | Yes |
| Radium Hot Springs 1,489 · 9.2 km | Moderate | $0.037 | 19% | Yes |
The fire record around Radium Hot Springs is a touch heavier than Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s, but the band is the same: moderate (here moderate).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area G, East Kootenay faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area G, 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?
- 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. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Electoral Area G, East Kootenay is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- 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, East Kootenay.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Electoral Area G, East Kootenay, 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 G, East Kootenay
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area G, East Kootenay?
19% of the 105 homes Health Canada tested around Electoral Area G, East Kootenay topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How is Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Electoral Area G, East Kootenay C−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area G, East Kootenay?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area G, East Kootenay $0.033 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Electoral Area G, East Kootenay flood?
There is flood mapping for Electoral Area G, East Kootenay on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is Electoral Area G, East Kootenay at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Electoral Area G, East Kootenay’s band is moderate, with 4.4% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2024), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
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).