Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0Shaking costs buildings in Strawberry Hill $0.47 a year per $1,000 of value, 16 times the typical town’s
Wildfire is rare near Strawberry Hill: 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.003% a year. Fewer homes than usual carry radon here, 0% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Strawberry Hill grades B for hazard risk, with wildfire counted against it.
What stands out about Strawberry Hill’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Strawberry Hill: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Strawberry Hill faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Strawberry Hill: B
Two inputs always count for Strawberry Hill, earthquakes and radon; the third, wildfire, counts only against a town.
Its place: #59 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,520 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: The seismic figure is a long-run average from NRCan’s model, not a prediction. The radon share rests on 70 home tests in the survey area, so a few homes move it. Small fires and grass fires are largely missing from the national burned-area record.
Few fires near Strawberry Hill: 0% within 5 km, 0.1% within 25 km
Past fire around Strawberry Hill’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Forty years of fire maps put Strawberry Hill at 0.003% a year, low next to the typical Canadian town’s 0.000%.
Nothing inside 5 km of Strawberry Hill’s homes has burned since 1986, and the nearest scar is 7.6 km off.
There is forest near Strawberry Hill’s homes (7.2% within 5 km) and more of it further out (16% 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
In the lower half in British Columbia: Strawberry Hill at 0.003% a year, 191st of 255, far from Oliver’s 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.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Strawberry Hill among them, though its rate is above zero; 7.5% rank 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.
The flood map inventory lists nothing for Strawberry Hill
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Strawberry Hill: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
There is no study for Strawberry Hill on the national flood inventory, which is far from complete.
Towns with a flood study on file
Strawberry Hill has no flood study on file, though 76% of towns in British Columbia do (Canada: 58%).
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 Strawberry Hill 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.”
Shaking is Strawberry Hill’s costliest hazard: $0.47 a year per $1,000
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.47 per $1,000, Strawberry Hill carries roughly 15.7 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030).
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Earthquake risk in British Columbia peaks in Duncan ($1.33); Strawberry Hill, at $0.47, sits above the median of $0.36.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Strawberry Hill is in the top tenth of Canada’s 2,611 towns for earthquake risk; 1.6% 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).
The model counts damage to Strawberry Hill’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). · Not measured by town: earthquake risk (the city of Surrey)
Radon runs low around Strawberry Hill: 0% of tested homes over the guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline. · Measured across the Fraser South health region: radon tests
Strawberry Hill’s survey area reads 0% over the guideline, under the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Strawberry Hill’s area, at 0%, is below the median in British Columbia (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 Strawberry Hill; 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.
A survey sample isn’t a map: any home in Strawberry Hill can be high, and a three-month test is the only way to know.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011).
Weather and fire alerts for Strawberry Hill
Alerts for Strawberry Hill 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 Strawberry Hill 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)
How Strawberry Hill’s neighbours compare on hazards
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Hill | Low | $0.47 | 0% | None listed |
| Panorama Ridge 36,473 · 3.1 km | Low | $0.47 | 0% | Yes |
| Newton 51,222 · 3.1 km | Low | $0.47 | 0% | Yes |
| Colebrook 3,617 · 3.4 km | Low | $0.47 | 0% | Yes |
| Brownsville 23,515 · 4.2 km | Low | $0.47 | 0% | Yes |
| Sullivan 42,135 · 5.1 km | Low | $0.47 | 0% | Yes |
| Whalley 52,642 · 6.3 km | Low | $0.47 | 0% | Yes |
The fire record around Newton is a touch heavier than Strawberry Hill’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 Strawberry Hill faces
What to do about the hazards Strawberry Hill 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. Wildfire is read from the national burned-area record around Strawberry Hill’s homes since 1986, a history of fire that may lower Risk but never raises it.
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. Flood studies cover areas of every size, which is why the page lists them for Strawberry Hill 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 Strawberry Hill until then.
- Earthquakes are modelled. NRCan models what earthquakes would cost buildings each year on average, subdivision by subdivision; Strawberry Hill’s figure is its subdivision’s.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Strawberry Hill
Does Strawberry Hill flood?
Nothing is listed for Strawberry Hill on the national inventory (0); local maps may still exist with the municipality.
How big is the earthquake risk in Strawberry Hill?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Strawberry Hill’s buildings lose $0.47 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
Is radon a problem in Strawberry Hill?
In Health Canada’s survey, 0% of 70 homes tested in Strawberry Hill’s area were above 200 Bq/m³, though only a test tells you about one house.
Is Strawberry Hill at risk of wildfire?
Less than most of Canada: 0.1% of the land within 25 km of Strawberry Hill has burned since 1986, the last in 2022, a low band that leaves Risk alone.
How is Strawberry Hill’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Strawberry Hill B, weighing earthquakes and radon and counting wildfire only against it.
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).