Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0A flood study covers Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: 4 on the national inventory, the newest from Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
Wildfire is rare near Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.005% a year. NRCan expects $0.027 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine, near the typical $0.030. Radon is about average around Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: 5.2% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine a grade of A−; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine 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 C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: A−
Earthquake risk and radon make Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
Its place: #13 of 254 in British Columbia and #862 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
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 C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: 0% within 5 km, 0.2% within 25 km
Past fire around Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Around Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine fire takes 0.005% of the land in a typical year, the typical Canadian town 0.000%, which is low.
About as much forest grows next to Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s homes (62% within 5 km) as across 25 km (58%).
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
In the upper half in British Columbia but far from Oliver (0.98%): Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine ranks 121st of 255, at 0.005% a year.
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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine reads low, with 92% of them; only 7.5% rank higher.
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 C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine is on the flood map inventory: 4 studies, latest by Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
For Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine the inventory points to 4 studies, most recently Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship’s in 2024.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floodplain Mapping in BC - Bulkley and Skeena River – Summary Report and Lakelse Lake and River – Summary Report | Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship | 2024 | final |
| Lakelse River and Lake Floodplain Mapping | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1990 | final |
| Zymoetz (Copper) River Floodplain Mapping | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1985 | final |
| Skeena River (Lakelse River, Terrace, Usk) Floodplain Mapping (including Zymagotitz (Zymacord) and Kitsumkalum Rivers) | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1982 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
76% of towns in British Columbia have a flood study, more than Canada’s 58%; Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine has one too.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Studies touching Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine run from the 1980s to the 2020s, with the most in the 1980s: 2 of 4.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine.
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 Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: $0.027 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
With $0.027 of shaking damage a year per $1,000, Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine is about even with the typical $0.030 (0.9 times).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in British Columbia: Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s $0.027 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 C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine (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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’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).
Radon about average around Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine: 5.2% over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Near the middle for radon: Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s area 5.2%, the typical Canadian town 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine, 5.2% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 1.4% 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.
37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s band of 5 to 10%; 26% sit 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 C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Not measured by town: radon tests (the Northwest health region)
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine; 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 C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine, 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 C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine | Low | $0.027 | 5.2% | Yes |
| Terrace 13,648 · 4.6 km | Low | $0.026 | 5.2% | Yes |
| Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine 4,153 · 7.2 km | Low | $0.021 | 5.2% | Yes |
Fire is no heavier anywhere nearby than around Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine (low), with Terrace next at low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine without grading them.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’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 C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine until then.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine
Does Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine flood?
A flood study covers Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s low band (0.2% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s buildings lose $0.027 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine grades A− for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine?
The area’s survey found 5.2% of 211 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine.
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).