Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainWildfire low, radon 2.5%: how Electoral Area D, qathet stands on hazards
No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of Electoral Area D, qathet’s homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 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. Electoral Area D, qathet grades B− for hazard risk; wildfire is low here, so it earns no credit.
What stands out about Electoral Area D, qathet’s hazards
For Electoral Area D, qathet, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Electoral Area D, 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 D, qathet: B−
Two inputs always count for Electoral Area D, qathet, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
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.
Little of the land around Electoral Area D, qathet has burned: 0% within 5 km, 0% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area D, qathet’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
Forty years of fire maps put Electoral Area D, qathet at 0.000% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
84% of the land within 5 km of Electoral Area D, qathet is forest fuel, close to the 86% 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 256
Fire has taken almost none of the land around Electoral Area D, qathet, as for 8 of the 256 towns in British Columbia; Oliver tops the list 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.
92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns are in the low band and 7.5% above it; Electoral Area D, qathet is among the many where the yearly burn rate rounds to zero.
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 D, qathet
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area D, qathet, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
Nationally, Electoral Area D, qathet has no listed flood study; the municipality is the place to ask.
Towns with a flood study on file
Flood maps are common in British Columbia, 76% of towns against 58% nationally, but none in the inventory touches Electoral Area D, qathet.
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 D, qathet.
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 D, qathet $0.22 per $1,000 a year
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
At $0.22 per $1,000, Electoral Area D, qathet carries roughly 7.2 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Electoral Area D, qathet’s $0.22 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.
Electoral Area D, qathet is in the top tenth of Canada’s 2,611 towns for earthquake risk; 7.6% rank 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).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Electoral Area D, qathet.
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 D, qathet are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline. · Measured across the North Shore/Coast Garibaldi health region: radon tests
Where the typical Canadian town has 6.6% of homes over the guideline, Electoral Area D, qathet’s area has fewer, 2.5%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Electoral Area D, qathet than in most towns in British Columbia: 2.5% against 1.8%.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
The quietest radon band, under 5%, holds 37% of Canada’s 2,611 towns and Electoral Area D, qathet; 63% sit 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.
Whatever Electoral Area D, qathet’s area share, the reading that matters is your own home’s, over a winter.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Where to get warnings in Electoral Area D, qathet
Alerts for Electoral Area D, 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 D, 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 D, qathet
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area D, qathet | Low | $0.22 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Electoral Area C, qathet 2,409 · 13 km | Low | $0.38 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Electoral Area B, qathet 1,714 · 15 km | Low | $0.22 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Powell River 14,947 · 19 km | Low | $0.38 | 2.5% | None listed |
The fire record around Electoral Area C, qathet is a touch heavier than Electoral Area D, 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 D, qathet faces
What to do about the hazards Electoral Area D, qathet 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.
- 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
- Wildfire counts one way. For Electoral Area D, qathet, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- 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 D, qathet floods.
- 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 D, qathet sits in.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Electoral Area D, qathet’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area D, qathet
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area D, qathet?
Expected earthquake damage in Electoral Area D, qathet comes to $0.22 a year for each $1,000 that buildings are worth.
Is Electoral Area D, qathet at risk of wildfire?
Very little by the national record: Electoral Area D, qathet’s band is low, with 0% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area D, qathet?
In Health Canada’s survey, 2.5% of 81 homes tested in Electoral Area D, qathet’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Does Electoral Area D, qathet flood?
Nothing is listed for Electoral Area D, qathet on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How is Electoral Area D, qathet’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area D, qathet’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).