Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain17% of homes tested in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s area are above the radon guideline
Wildfire is a moderate presence around Electoral Area E, North Okanagan: 2.8% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.07% a year, short of the band that counts against Risk. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.009 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Electoral Area E, North Okanagan a grade of B−; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s hazards
For Electoral Area E, North Okanagan, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Electoral Area E, North Okanagan 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, North Okanagan: B−
Seismic risk and radon set Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Some fire around Electoral Area E, North Okanagan: 2.8% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Moderate: the land around Electoral Area E, North Okanagan burns at 0.07% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Fire has stayed at least 5.3 km from Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s homes since 1986.
Near or far, forest fuel covers a similar share around Electoral Area E, North Okanagan: 77% within 5 km and 73% within 25 km.
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
In the top quarter in British Columbia: Electoral Area E, North Okanagan ranks 62nd of 256 at 0.07% a year, with Oliver first at 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 Electoral Area E, North Okanagan 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.
No flood study is listed for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area E, North Okanagan, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
NRCan’s inventory is silent on Electoral Area E, North Okanagan, so any flood map would be the municipality’s own.
Towns with a flood study on file
Electoral Area E, North Okanagan has no flood study on file, though 76% of towns in British Columbia do (Canada: 58%).
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan.
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.”
Low seismic risk in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan: $0.009 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.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan it is only $0.009, 0.3 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in British Columbia: Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s $0.009 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.
Toward the quiet end of Canada’s range: 86% of its 2,611 towns sit above Electoral Area E, North Okanagan.
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 Electoral Area E, North Okanagan.
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 E, North Okanagan: 17% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
More homes than usual test high around Electoral Area E, North Okanagan: 17% against 6.6% for the typical Canadian town. Electoral Area E, North Okanagan doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Okanagan health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s area, at 17%, is above the median in British Columbia (1.8%), and 2.8% 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 E, North Okanagan, 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.
Health Canada advises testing every home, Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s included, whatever the area’s figure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan
Alerts for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan 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 E, North Okanagan 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 E, North Okanagan
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area E, North Okanagan | Moderate | $0.009 | 17% | None listed |
| Electoral Area D, North Okanagan 3,184 · 19 km | Low | $0.010 | 17% | Yes |
Among its neighbours Electoral Area E, North Okanagan has the most fire on record (moderate); Electoral Area D, North Okanagan follows (low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area E, North Okanagan faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s hazards, most pressing first.
- 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?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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, North Okanagan is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Electoral Area E, North Okanagan, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- 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, North Okanagan.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan?
About $0.009 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan.
Is Electoral Area E, North Okanagan at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s moderate band (2.8% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
Does Electoral Area E, North Okanagan flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
How is Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area E, North Okanagan 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 E, North Okanagan?
The area’s survey found 17% of 109 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan.
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).