Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast has one of Canada’s highest earthquake risks: $0.45 a year per $1,000, 15 times the typical town’s
Burn scars are few around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast, with 0.4% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.01% a year). Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 2.5% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast grades C+ for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s hazards
For Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast 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 E, Sunshine Coast: C+
Seismic risk and radon set Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s grade, wildfire can drag it down, and flood mapping stays out of it.
Its place: #200 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,836 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Wildfire is rare near Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast: 0.4% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986, 0% within 5 km
Past fire around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
The yearly burn rate around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast is 0.01%, low beside 0.000% for the typical Canadian town.
The 5 km ring around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s homes is clear of burns since 1986, the nearest 9.1 km out.
Forest thickens with distance from Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast: 68% of the land within 5 km, 84% 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 255
Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast sits mid-table in British Columbia: 97th of 255 towns, at 0.01% a year, well behind Oliver (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.
Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast 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.
No flood study is listed for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The inventory has nothing for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast, but a local or conservation-authority map may still exist.
Towns with a flood study on file
76% of towns in British Columbia have a flood study, more than Canada’s 58%; Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast is not yet one of them.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
The grade leaves flood out, since a study area says nothing about how many of Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s homes are at risk.
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 E, Sunshine Coast $0.45 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s $0.45 is about 15 times the typical town’s $0.030: it sits in one of Canada’s more active seismic zones.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
About level with the typical town in British Columbia: Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s $0.45 against $0.36; Duncan reaches $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 E, Sunshine Coast is in the top tenth of Canada’s 2,611 towns for earthquake risk; 2.9% 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).
Only shaking damage to buildings in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast 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).
2.5% of homes tested around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s survey area reads 2.5% over the guideline, under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Radon runs higher around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast 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.
63% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s band, which holds 37%.
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.
Neighbouring homes in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast can differ a lot; only a long-term test tells you about yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Area behind the radon tests figures: the North Shore/Coast Garibaldi health region
Where to get warnings in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast; 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. |
For fires near Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast | Low | $0.45 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Gibsons 5,090 · 2.3 km | Low | $0.48 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast 2,691 · 6.0 km | Low | $0.22 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Roberts Creek 3,779 · 6.7 km | Low | $0.38 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Bowen Island 4,501 · 14 km | Low | $0.15 | 2.5% | None listed |
| Sechelt 11,558 · 18 km | Low | $0.33 | 2.5% | None listed |
The fire record around Roberts Creek is a touch heavier than Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’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 E, Sunshine Coast faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’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
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast is its health region’s, the survey’s design unit.
- Wildfire counts one way. For Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- 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 E, Sunshine Coast.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
How is Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast grades C+ for hazard risk, from earthquakes and radon, with wildfire counted only where it lowers the grade.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s buildings lose $0.45 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s band is low, with 0.4% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2019), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast flood?
No study on Canada’s Flood Map Inventory covers Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast (0), which doesn’t mean it has never been mapped, so ask the municipality.
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast?
2.5% of the 81 homes Health Canada tested around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
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).