Photo: The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 caElectoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 12% of area homes over the radon guideline
Burn scars are few around Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George, with 1.5% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.04% a year). Earthquake risk in Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George is ordinary: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.037 a year per $1,000 of value, close to the typical town’s $0.030. Hazard risk gives Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George a grade of C; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George 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 H, Fraser-Fort George: C
The grade weighs Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
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.
Few fires near Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George: 2.8% within 5 km, 1.5% within 25 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Low by Canadian standards: 0.04% of the land a year around Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George, 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
About as much forest grows next to Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s homes (57% within 5 km) as across 25 km (53%).
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 H, Fraser-Fort George sits mid-table in British Columbia: 77th of 256 towns, at 0.04% a year, well 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.
Low, like 92% of the country’s 2,610 towns: the land around Electoral Area H, 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
There is no study for Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
76% of towns in British Columbia have a flood study, more than Canada’s 58%; Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George is not yet one of them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’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.”
Expected shaking damage in Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George: $0.037 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
With $0.037 of shaking damage a year per $1,000, Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George is about even with the typical $0.030 (1.2 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; Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George expects less, $0.037, 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.
Around half of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George (45%).
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 H, Fraser-Fort George’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).
Radon runs high around Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George: 12% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Shared with the rest of the Northern Interior health region: radon tests
the typical Canadian town has 6.6% over the guideline; Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s area has 12%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George, 12% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 1.9% over 600, against a median of 1.8% in British Columbia.
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 H, Fraser-Fort George 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George 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).
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George; 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 H, Fraser-Fort George, and listen to local authorities for orders.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George faces
What to do about the hazards Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George without grading them.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- 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 Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George?
Expected earthquake damage in Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George comes to $0.037 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George at risk of wildfire?
Fire has reached 1.5% of the land around Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George since 1986 (last in 2025); at low, it neither helps nor hurts the grade.
Does Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George flood?
With 0 studies on the inventory, Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s flood risk is unmapped nationally; check with the municipality before buying.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George?
Around Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George, 208 survey homes were tested and 12% came in over 200 Bq/m³, a guide to the area, not to any one home.
How is Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Electoral Area H, Fraser-Fort George C, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).