Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain17% of homes tested in Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s area are above the radon guideline
Some 5.7% of the land within 25 km of Electoral Area F, North Okanagan has burned since 1986; at 0.14% a year that is moderate, not high. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.010 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Electoral Area F, North Okanagan grades B− for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area F, North Okanagan: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area F, 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 F, North Okanagan: B−
Earthquake risk and radon make Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
Its place: #115 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,626 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.
Some fire around Electoral Area F, North Okanagan: 5.7% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.1% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.14% of the land a year, Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Near or far, forest fuel covers a similar share around Electoral Area F, North Okanagan: 68% within 5 km and 72% 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 255
At 0.14% a year, Electoral Area F, North Okanagan is near the top in British Columbia: 45th of 255, 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.
Electoral Area F, North Okanagan is in the moderate band, which holds 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 2.1% 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 F, North Okanagan is on the flood map inventory: 2 studies, latest by Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area F, North Okanagan: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
2 studies on the inventory touch Electoral Area F, North Okanagan, the newest Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship’s from 2025, and their areas can be large, so they say maps exist, not that the town floods.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shuswap Region Floodplain Maps | Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship | 2025 | final |
| Shuswap River (Mara Lake to Mable Lake) Floodplain Mapping | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1980 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Its flood study puts Electoral Area F, North Okanagan 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.
Flood mapping around Electoral Area F, North Okanagan has come in steps: 2 studies from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Electoral Area F, North Okanagan.
Flood mapping is shown for Electoral Area F, North Okanagan to be opened and checked, never turned into a grade.
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.
Low seismic risk in Electoral Area F, North Okanagan: $0.010 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Shaking costs the typical town $0.030 a year; in Electoral Area F, North Okanagan it is only $0.010, 0.3 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
At $0.010, Electoral Area F, North Okanagan is below the typical town in British Columbia ($0.36); Duncan is highest at $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.
Electoral Area F, North Okanagan is in the lower part of Canada’s range for earthquake risk; 86% of the 2,611 towns are higher.
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 F, North Okanagan’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).
Test for radon in Electoral Area F, North Okanagan: 17% of area homes were over the 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 F, North Okanagan’s area has 17%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Electoral Area F, North Okanagan, 17% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 2.8% 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.
4.6% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Electoral Area F, North Okanagan, in the 10–20% band with 22%.
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 F, North Okanagan as anywhere, test to be sure.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: one figure for all of the Okanagan health region
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area F, North Okanagan
Alerts for Electoral Area F, 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. |
Alert Ready carries evacuation orders for Electoral Area F, North Okanagan to phones; CWFIS shows the day’s fire danger.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Electoral Area F, North Okanagan
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area F, North Okanagan | Moderate | $0.010 | 17% | Yes |
| Enderby 3,292 · 11 km | Moderate | $0.017 | 17% | Yes |
| Salmon Arm 20,891 · 13 km | Moderate | $0.013 | 6.4% | Yes |
The fire record around Salmon Arm is a touch heavier than Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s, but the band is the same: moderate (here moderate).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area F, North Okanagan faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area F, 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?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- How close is the forest edge?
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Electoral Area F, North Okanagan is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- 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 F, North Okanagan.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area F, North Okanagan
Is Electoral Area F, North Okanagan at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s moderate band (5.7% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2024) is short of the level that counts.
Does Electoral Area F, North Okanagan flood?
There is flood mapping for Electoral Area F, North Okanagan on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area F, 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 F, North Okanagan.
How is Electoral Area F, North Okanagan’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Electoral Area F, North Okanagan B−, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area F, North Okanagan?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area F, North Okanagan $0.010 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
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).