Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainElectoral Area B, qathet’s hazards at a glance: a low wildfire record and 2.5% of area homes over the radon guideline
Fire has left almost no mark near Electoral Area B, qathet: 0% of the land within 25 km since 1986, 0.000% a year. Earthquakes add more: NRCan’s model puts building losses at $0.22 a year per $1,000 of value, against $0.030 for the typical town. Hazard risk gives Electoral Area B, qathet a grade of C+, from earthquakes and radon alone.
What stands out about Electoral Area B, qathet’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Electoral Area B, qathet: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Electoral Area B, qathet 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 B, qathet: C+
Earthquake risk and radon make Electoral Area B, qathet’s grade; wildfire can only lower it, never raise it, and flood studies are listed but not scored.
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.
Wildfire is rare near Electoral Area B, qathet: 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area B, qathet’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
With 0.000% burned a year, Electoral Area B, qathet is among the many low-band places (the typical Canadian town 0.000%).
The nearer ring around Electoral Area B, qathet is less wooded (71% forest fuel) than the land out to 25 km (87%).
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
Oliver has the highest burn rate in British Columbia, 0.98% a year; around Electoral Area B, qathet, as around 8 of the 256 towns, it rounds to zero.
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 7.5% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are above the low band, which holds 92%; Electoral Area B, qathet, at a rounded zero, is far from them.
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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Electoral Area B, qathet
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area B, qathet: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists no study whose area touches Electoral Area B, qathet, which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped.
Towns with a flood study on file
Missing from a well-mapped province: Electoral Area B, qathet has no study, where 76% of towns in British Columbia have one against 58% nationally.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Listed, not scored: a flood study proves a map exists, not that Electoral Area B, qathet 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.”
Earthquakes cost buildings in Electoral Area B, qathet $0.22 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Roughly 7.4 times the typical $0.030: Electoral Area B, qathet’s $0.22 marks real seismic exposure.
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 B, qathet expects less, $0.22, 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.
Only 7.3% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Electoral Area B, qathet.
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 B, qathet’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).
2.5% of homes tested around Electoral Area B, qathet are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Electoral Area B, qathet’s area, at 2.5%, is below the 6.6% of the typical Canadian town, though any one home can still be high.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
More homes top the guideline around Electoral Area B, qathet (2.5%) than in the typical town in British Columbia (1.8%).
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Few tests over the guideline: Electoral Area B, qathet shares the bottom band with 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns, below the other 63%.
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 B, qathet 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 North Shore/Coast Garibaldi health region
Weather and fire alerts for Electoral Area B, qathet
Alerts for Electoral Area B, qathet 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 B, qathet 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 B, qathet
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area B, qathet | Low | $0.22 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Powell River 14,947 · 4.7 km | Low | $0.38 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Electoral Area C, qathet 2,409 · 8.9 km | Low | $0.38 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Electoral Area D, qathet 1,221 · 15 km | Low | $0.22 | 2.5% | None listed |
The fire record around Electoral Area C, qathet is a touch heavier than Electoral Area B, qathet’s, but the band is the same: low (here low).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area B, qathet faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area B, qathet’s hazards, most pressing first.
- 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.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap the water heater down.
- Keep 72 hours of supplies.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Ask the municipality for flood maps.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
- Is earthquake cover included?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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, qathet floods.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Electoral Area B, qathet’s figure is its subdivision’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Electoral Area B, qathet’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- 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, qathet sits in.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area B, qathet
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area B, qathet?
The area’s survey found 2.5% of 81 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area B, qathet.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area B, qathet?
NRCan’s model expects shaking to cost buildings in Electoral Area B, qathet $0.22 a year for every $1,000 of their value, on average over many years.
How is Electoral Area B, qathet’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area B, qathet grades C+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
Is Electoral Area B, qathet at risk of wildfire?
The burned-area record shows next to nothing around Electoral Area B, qathet (0% within 25 km since 1986), so its band is low.
Does Electoral Area B, qathet flood?
The inventory has 0 studies for Electoral Area B, qathet, and an empty list isn’t a clean bill: the municipality holds any flood maps.
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).