Photo: calind · CC BY-SA 3.0Flood mapping exists for Electoral Area D, Peace River: 2 on record, latest by The Corporation of the City of Dawson Creek
Wildfire is rare near Electoral Area D, Peace River: 1.9% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.05% a year. Seismic risk runs low: $0.012 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. More homes than usual carry radon here, 10% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Electoral Area D, Peace River grades B+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area D, Peace River’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area D, Peace River: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area D, 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 D, Peace River grades B+ for hazard risk
The grade weighs Electoral Area D, Peace River’s seismic risk and radon equally, and wildfire is one-sided: a high band counts against a town, a low one earns nothing.
Its place: #15 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,072 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 D, Peace River: 1.9% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0.7% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area D, Peace River’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Electoral Area D, Peace River burns at 0.05% a year, low against 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
Homes in Electoral Area D, Peace River sit on open or built-up ground (3.3% forest fuel within 5 km); the wider 25 km holds 17%.
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
In the upper half in British Columbia but far from Oliver (0.98%): Electoral Area D, Peace River ranks 72nd of 255, at 0.05% a year.
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 D, Peace River is in the low band with 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns; 7.5% sit in moderate or 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.
Flooding around Electoral Area D, Peace River is mapped in 2 studies, the newest by The Corporation of the City of Dawson Creek
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area D, Peace River: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The newest of 2 studies covering Electoral Area D, Peace River is The Corporation of the City of Dawson Creek’s, from 2020; open its map to see the zones.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Dawson Creek Flood Mapping Final Report | The Corporation of the City of Dawson Creek | 2020 | final |
| 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 D, 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.
No single decade dominates: 2 studies for Electoral Area D, Peace River between the 1980s and the 2020s.
Study dates as the NRCan inventory lists them, one count per study touching Electoral Area D, Peace River.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Electoral Area D, Peace River floods.
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.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Electoral Area D, Peace River just $0.012 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Electoral Area D, 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
The typical town in British Columbia expects $0.36 a year in shaking damage; Electoral Area D, Peace River expects less, $0.012, and Duncan the most, $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 D, 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).
The model counts damage to Electoral Area D, Peace River’s buildings and their occupants from shaking only: not liquefaction, landslides, tsunami or fires after a quake.
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 D, Peace River: 10% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
A higher share than most: 10% of tested homes around Electoral Area D, Peace River, the typical Canadian town 6.6%. Electoral Area D, Peace River shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Northeast health region.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Electoral Area D, Peace River, 10% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 0.5% 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.
More high tests than most: Electoral Area D, Peace River sits in a band that only 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns share, with 4.6% 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.
Basements, soil and how a house is sealed decide its radon, so in Electoral Area D, 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 D, Peace River
Alerts for Electoral Area D, 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. |
Evacuation orders for Electoral Area D, Peace River 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 D, Peace River
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area D, Peace River | Low | $0.012 | 10% | Yes |
| Dawson Creek 13,635 · 8.0 km | Low | $0.012 | 10% | Yes |
Nowhere around Electoral Area D, Peace River burns more: Dawson Creek, the closest rival, is low to its low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area D, Peace River faces
What to do about the hazards Electoral Area D, Peace River faces, and what to ask before you buy.
- 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 D, Peace River’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 D, Peace River 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 D, Peace River.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Electoral Area D, Peace River’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area D, Peace River
Is Electoral Area D, Peace River at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 1.9% of the land within 25 km of Electoral Area D, Peace River has burned since 1986, the last in 2025, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
How is Electoral Area D, Peace River’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area D, Peace River’s Hazard risk grade is B+, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area D, Peace River?
In Health Canada’s survey, 10% of 200 homes tested in Electoral Area D, Peace River’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area D, Peace River?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area D, Peace River $0.012 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
Does Electoral Area D, Peace River flood?
There is flood mapping for Electoral Area D, Peace River on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
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).