Flood mapping exists for Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George: 4 on record, latest by Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
Little of the land around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George has burned: 0.1% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.003% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.015 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. In Health Canada’s survey, 12% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George grades B for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George grades B for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #54 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,507 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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.
Wildfire is rare near Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George: 0.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0.3% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Fire claims 0.003% of the land around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George each year, a low band, with the typical Canadian town at 0.000%.
Within 5 km of Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George, 64% 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
Some fire is mapped around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George (0.003% a year), but it ranks only 191st of 255 towns in British Columbia; Oliver has 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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George burns, but slower than in the 7.5% 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 A, Fraser-Fort George is mapped in 4 studies, the newest by Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The newest of 4 studies covering Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George is Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship’s, from 2025; open its map to see the zones.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fraser, Nechako, Salmon, and Chilako Rivers Flood Mapping Study | Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship | 2025 | final |
| City of Prince George - Flood Risk Evaluation and Flood Control Solutions | City of Prince George | 2009 | final |
| Chilako River Floodplain Mapping (including Beaverley Creek) | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1997 | final |
| Salmon River near Prince George Floodplain Mapping (including Wright Creek) | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1986 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study puts Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George 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 4 studies touching Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George are spread over time, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George.
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.
Little shaking expected in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George: $0.015 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George it is only $0.015, 0.5 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s $0.015 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.
Earthquakes cost less around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George 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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
12% of homes tested around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
the typical Canadian town has 6.6% over the guideline; Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s area has 12%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s area, at 12%, is above the median in British Columbia (1.8%), and 1.9% 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.
One test in ten or more tops the guideline around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George, as in 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 4.6% go 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.
The share describes the area, not a house: in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Northern Interior health region
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George
Alerts for Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George 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 A, Fraser-Fort George 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)
Hazards in the places around Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George | Low | $0.015 | 12% | Yes |
| Prince George 85,944 · 15 km | Low | $0.012 | 12% | Yes |
Prince George burns a little more than Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George, in the same low band (low here).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s hazards, most pressing first.
- 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.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 A, Fraser-Fort George’s.
- 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 A, Fraser-Fort George.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George
Is Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s low band (0.1% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
Does Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George $0.015 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George grades B for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George?
The area’s survey found 12% of 208 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George.
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).