Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Electoral Area C, Peace River is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
Wildfire is a moderate presence around Electoral Area C, Peace River: 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 $0.011 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Radon is higher than usual: 10% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Electoral Area C, Peace River a grade of B+; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Electoral Area C, Peace River’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area C, Peace River: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area C, 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 C, Peace River grades B+ for hazard risk
Seismic risk and radon set Electoral Area C, Peace River’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #14 of 254 in British Columbia and #929 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.
A moderate wildfire record for Electoral Area C, Peace River: 2.8% within 25 km burned, 2.3% within 5 km
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area C, Peace River’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The yearly burn rate around Electoral Area C, Peace River is 0.07%, above 0.000% for the typical Canadian town but under the high band.
Homes in Electoral Area C, Peace River sit on open or built-up ground (2.8% forest fuel within 5 km); the wider 25 km holds 8.1%.
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
Oliver burns fastest in British Columbia at 0.98% a year; Electoral Area C, Peace River, at 0.07%, ranks 61st of 255.
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.
Only 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Electoral Area C, Peace River, and 2.1% sit above it.
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.
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy has mapped flooding for Electoral Area C, Peace River (1 study)
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area C, Peace River, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy studied flooding in an area that includes Electoral Area C, Peace River (1985); open its map to see which streets lie in a flood zone.
| 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
Its flood study puts Electoral Area C, Peace River 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 studies don’t enter the grade; they are listed so you can open the official map for Electoral Area C, Peace River.
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.
Little shaking expected in Electoral Area C, Peace River: $0.011 a year per $1,000
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 C, Peace River it is only $0.011, 0.4 times as much.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Electoral Area C, Peace River’s $0.011 sits under the median in British Columbia, $0.36, and well under Duncan’s $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 (85%) face more earthquake damage than Electoral Area C, 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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Electoral Area C, Peace River’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 runs high around Electoral Area C, Peace River: 10% of tested homes over the guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Area-wide: radon tests, counted over the Northeast health region
At 10% over the guideline, the area around Electoral Area C, Peace River beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Electoral Area C, 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.
Electoral Area C, Peace River is in the 10–20% band, with 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; only 4.6% 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Electoral Area C, Peace River only a test can say.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area C, Peace River
Alerts for Electoral Area C, Peace River 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. |
Fire danger and active fires near Electoral Area C, Peace River are mapped daily by the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System; evacuation orders come from the municipality or province.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Electoral Area C, Peace River
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area C, Peace River | Moderate | $0.011 | 10% | Yes |
| Fort St. John 24,383 · 4.4 km | Low | $0.016 | 10% | Yes |
| Taylor 1,415 · 17 km | Low | $0.008 | 10% | Yes |
Fort St. John (low) has the heaviest fire record of Electoral Area C, Peace River’s neighbours, and Electoral Area C, Peace River (moderate) matches or beats it.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area C, Peace River faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area C, Peace River’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
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Electoral Area C, Peace River without grading them.
- 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, Peace River until then.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Electoral Area C, Peace River’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 C, Peace River’s figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area C, Peace River
Is Electoral Area C, Peace River at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area C, Peace River’s moderate band (2.8% 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, Peace River?
About $0.011 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Electoral Area C, Peace River.
How is Electoral Area C, Peace River’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area C, Peace River grades B+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Does Electoral Area C, Peace River flood?
A flood study covers Electoral Area C, Peace River on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory; open the owner’s map to check a street, since flood isn’t graded.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area C, Peace River?
The area’s survey found 10% of 200 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area C, Peace River.
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).