Photo: tuchodi from Fort St. John, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Flood mapping exists for Electoral Area B, Peace River: 1 on record, latest by Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
Some 5.6% of the land within 25 km of Electoral Area B, Peace River has burned since 1986; at 0.16% a year that is moderate, not high. Earthquakes matter little: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.012 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. More homes than usual carry radon here, 10% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Electoral Area B, Peace River grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area B, Peace River’s hazards
For Electoral Area B, Peace River, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Electoral Area B, Peace River faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Electoral Area B, Peace River grades B+ for hazard risk
Two inputs always count for Electoral Area B, Peace River, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #15 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,072 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
A moderate wildfire record for Electoral Area B, Peace River: 5.6% within 25 km burned, 0.3% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area B, Peace River’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
At 0.16% of the land a year, Electoral Area B, Peace River’s burn rate is moderate; the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
The nearer ring around Electoral Area B, Peace River is less wooded (31% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (45%).
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
The land around Electoral Area B, Peace River burns at 0.16% a year, the 43rd highest rate of 255 towns in British Columbia; Oliver tops it 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 B, Peace River 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.
A flood study covers Electoral Area B, Peace River, from Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy: 1 on the inventory
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area B, Peace River: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching Electoral Area B, Peace River is Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy’s, dated 1985; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace River BC Alberta Border to Site C Floodplain Mapping | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1985 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Mapping in British Columbia reaches 76% of towns, Electoral Area B, Peace River included, beside 58% across Canada.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Flood is shown here, never graded: a study says where a map exists, not how many of Electoral Area B, Peace River’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.
Low seismic risk in Electoral Area B, Peace River: $0.012 per $1,000 of buildings a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Electoral Area B, Peace River’s $0.012 is a fraction of the typical town’s $0.030 (0.4 times as much): quiet ground by Canadian standards.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in British Columbia: Electoral Area B, Peace River’s $0.012 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.
Most of Canada’s 2,611 towns (84%) face more earthquake damage than Electoral Area B, Peace River.
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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Electoral Area B, Peace River is counted; landslides, liquefaction, tsunami and fire after a quake aren’t.
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 B, Peace River: 10% 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 B, Peace River’s area has 10%. Figures for radon tests are published for the Northeast health region as a whole, not for Electoral Area B, Peace River alone.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Electoral Area B, Peace River’s area, at 10%, is above the median in British Columbia (1.8%), and 0.5% 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.
The 10–20% band holds 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, Electoral Area B, Peace River 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 low area share in Electoral Area B, Peace River doesn’t clear a house, nor does a high one condemn it: test.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Electoral Area B, Peace River
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area B, Peace River; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Electoral Area B, Peace River come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Get ready for what Electoral Area B, Peace River faces
What to do about the hazards Electoral Area B, Peace River faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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
- Earthquakes are modelled. The earthquake figure is an expected loss, not a forecast, worked out by NRCan for each census subdivision, Electoral Area B, Peace River’s included.
- Radon is a survey. The radon share comes from about 14,000 long-term home tests in 2009–2011, pooled for now by the 2007 health region Electoral Area B, Peace River sits in.
- Wildfire counts one way. Burned land within 25 km of where people live, averaged over 1986–2025 and checked for fuel near homes, is the measure; it looks back, not ahead, and only ever counts against Electoral Area B, Peace River.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. A study’s area can be a whole watershed or province, so being on the inventory says a map exists, not that a home in Electoral Area B, Peace River floods.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area B, Peace River
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area B, Peace River?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area B, Peace River $0.012 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area B, Peace River?
In Health Canada’s survey, 10% of 200 homes tested in Electoral Area B, Peace River’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Is Electoral Area B, Peace River at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 5.6% of the land within 25 km of Electoral Area B, Peace River has burned since 1986, the last in 2025, a moderate band that leaves Risk alone.
Does Electoral Area B, Peace River flood?
Electoral Area B, Peace River’s area has been studied for flooding, and the owner’s map shows which streets lie in a zone; the grade leaves flood out.
How is Electoral Area B, Peace River’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area B, Peace River’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
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).