Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0High radon around Enderby: 17% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³
Some 4.6% of the land within 25 km of Enderby has burned since 1986; at 0.11% a year that is moderate, not high. Seismic risk in Enderby sits near the middle: $0.017 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Enderby grades C+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Enderby’s hazards
For Enderby, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Enderby faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Enderby: C+
Risk averages earthquakes and radon; wildfire joins only where it pulls the average down, so a town like Enderby with little fire nearby would get no credit for it.
Its place: #213 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,892 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Fire reaches the land around Enderby: 0% within 5 km, 4.6% within 25 km
Past fire around Enderby’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The yearly burn rate around Enderby is 0.11%, above 0.000% for the typical Canadian town but under the high band.
The 5 km ring around Enderby’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 11 km out.
The nearer ring around Enderby is less wooded (46% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (68%).
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
At 0.11% a year, Enderby is near the top in British Columbia: 52nd of 255, behind Oliver (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 Enderby 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.
2 flood studies cover Enderby, the newest from Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Enderby: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For Enderby the inventory points to 2 studies, most recently Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship’s in 2025.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shuswap Region Floodplain Maps | Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship | 2025 | final |
| Shuswap River (Mara Lake to Mable Lake) Floodplain Mapping | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1980 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study puts Enderby with 76% of towns in British Columbia; Canada’s share is 58%.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The 2 studies touching Enderby are spread over time, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Enderby.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Enderby’s homes stand in a flood zone.
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.
Expected shaking damage in Enderby: $0.017 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Earthquake losses in Enderby, $0.017 per $1,000, are in line with the typical $0.030 (0.6 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
The typical town in British Columbia expects $0.36 a year in shaking damage; Enderby expects less, $0.017, and Duncan the most, $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: 70% of its 2,611 towns sit above Enderby.
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 Enderby.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
17% of homes tested around Enderby are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Enderby’s area, at 17%, is above the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, so testing is worth more here than most places.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Enderby (17%) than in the typical town in British Columbia (1.8%); 2.8% 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: Enderby 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.
Whatever Enderby’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Okanagan health region
Where to get warnings in Enderby
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Enderby; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Enderby come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Enderby
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enderby | Moderate | $0.017 | 17% | Yes |
| Electoral Area F, North Okanagan 4,969 · 11 km | Moderate | $0.010 | 17% | Yes |
| Armstrong 5,643 · 13 km | Moderate | $0.020 | 17% | Yes |
| Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap 4,829 · 15 km | High | $0.010 | 6.4% | Yes |
| Spallumcheen 5,843 · 17 km | Moderate | $0.016 | 17% | Yes |
| Salmon Arm 20,891 · 18 km | Moderate | $0.013 | 6.4% | Yes |
Next door, Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap sits in a high fire band; Enderby is moderate.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Enderby faces
What to do about the hazards Enderby faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Enderby without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Enderby.
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Enderby’s included.
- Radon is a survey. Radon figures pool the survey’s home tests by area: postal areas once their boundaries arrive, the 2007 health region around Enderby until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Enderby
Is Enderby at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 4.6% of the land around Enderby since 1986 (last in 2024); at moderate, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
How is Enderby’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Enderby’s Hazard risk grade is C+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
How big is the earthquake risk in Enderby?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Enderby’s buildings lose $0.017 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is radon a problem in Enderby?
Around Enderby, 109 survey homes were tested and 17% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
Does Enderby flood?
A flood study covers Enderby on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
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).