Photo: TerradiseBC · CC BY-SA 4.0Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine is on Canada’s flood inventory: 3 listed, led by Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
Little of the land around Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine has burned: 0.1% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.001% a year. NRCan expects $0.021 of shaking damage a year per $1,000 of buildings in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, near the typical $0.030. Radon around Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine is ordinary for Canada: 5.2% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine a grade of A−; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area E, 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 E, Kitimat-Stikine: A−
For Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
Its place: #10 of 254 in British Columbia and #659 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 E, Kitimat-Stikine: 0.1% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0.1% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The land within 25 km of Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine burns at 0.001% a year on average, the low band; the typical Canadian town: 0.000%.
Within 5 km of Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, 61% of the land is forest fuel; widen the ring to 25 km and it is 66%.
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 E, Kitimat-Stikine (0.001% a year), but it ranks only 239th 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.
Beside 2,610 Canadian towns, Electoral Area E, 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.
3 flood studies cover Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, the newest from Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
For Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine the inventory points to 3 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 |
| 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 E, 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 E, Kitimat-Stikine run from the 1980s to the 2020s, with the most in the 1980s: 2 of 3.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’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.
Ordinary seismic risk in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine: $0.021 per $1,000 of buildings a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
0.7 times the typical $0.030: Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s $0.021 is ordinary.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in British Columbia peaks in Duncan ($1.33); Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, at $0.021, is below the median of $0.36.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Middle of the pack: 63% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have more earthquake risk than Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine.
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 E, 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 E, Kitimat-Stikine: 5.2% over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s area sits close to the typical Canadian town: 5.2% over the guideline, against 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine than in most towns in British Columbia: 5.2% over the guideline (1.8% is typical), 1.4% over 600.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Between 5% and 10% of tests over the guideline: Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, and 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; 26% are 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.
One home in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine can be high while next door is low; a three-month test settles it.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Data for radon tests covers the Northwest health region
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area E, 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. |
For fires near Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine | Low | $0.021 | 5.2% | Yes |
| Terrace 13,648 · 4.3 km | Low | $0.026 | 5.2% | Yes |
| Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine 3,189 · 7.2 km | Low | $0.027 | 5.2% | Yes |
Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine burns a little more than Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, 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 E, Kitimat-Stikine faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area E, 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
- 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 E, Kitimat-Stikine’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- 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 E, Kitimat-Stikine.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine
How is Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s Hazard risk grade is A−, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Does Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine flood?
There is flood mapping for Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s low band (0.1% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2021) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine?
About $0.021 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area E, 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 E, 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).