Photo: Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 2.0High radon around Tsinstikeptum 10: 17% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³
Some 25% of the land within 25 km of Tsinstikeptum 10 has burned since 1986; at 0.64% a year that is moderate, not high. Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.012 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Hazard risk gives Tsinstikeptum 10 a grade of B−; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Tsinstikeptum 10’s hazards
Four national sources, each read for Tsinstikeptum 10: earthquakes, radon, past fires and flood studies.
What Tsinstikeptum 10 faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Hazard risk in Tsinstikeptum 10: B−
For Tsinstikeptum 10, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
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.
Fire reaches the land around Tsinstikeptum 10: 36% within 5 km, 25% within 25 km
Past fire around Tsinstikeptum 10’s homes, from the national burned-area record, with the fuel within 5 km.
Moderate: the land around Tsinstikeptum 10 burns at 0.64% a year, where the typical Canadian town sees 0.000%.
Homes in Tsinstikeptum 10 sit on open or built-up ground (0.7% forest fuel within 5 km); the wider 25 km holds 51%.
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
Tsinstikeptum 10 ranks 4th of the 256 towns in British Columbia for burn rate, at 0.64% a year; Oliver leads with 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.
Only 5.4% of Canada’s 2,610 towns share the moderate band with Tsinstikeptum 10, and 2.1% sit above it.
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.
Tsinstikeptum 10 is on the flood map inventory: 1 study, by Okanagan Basin Water Board
What Canada’s Flood Map Inventory lists for Tsinstikeptum 10: who studied flooding and where to see their maps.
The flood study touching Tsinstikeptum 10 is Okanagan Basin Water Board’s, dated 2020; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Okanagan Mainstem Floodplain Mapping Project | Okanagan Basin Water Board | 2020 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
76% of towns in British Columbia have a flood study, more than Canada’s 58%; Tsinstikeptum 10 has one too.
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 Tsinstikeptum 10’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.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Earthquakes cost buildings in Tsinstikeptum 10 just $0.012 per $1,000 a year
Expected yearly building losses from earthquakes, from Natural Resources Canada’s model.
At $0.012 per $1,000, Tsinstikeptum 10 carries 0.4 times the typical Canadian town’s earthquake risk ($0.030): low.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Tsinstikeptum 10’s $0.012 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.
84% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Tsinstikeptum 10.
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).
Roads, pipes and bridges aren’t in Tsinstikeptum 10’s figure, nor landslides or tsunami: it is buildings and shaking.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
17% of homes tested around Tsinstikeptum 10 are over the radon guideline
Long-term radon tests in homes across the survey area, against Health Canada’s guideline.
More homes than usual test high around Tsinstikeptum 10: 17% against 6.6% for the typical Canadian town.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Tsinstikeptum 10’s area, at 17%, is above the median in British Columbia (1.8%), and 2.8% of its tests passed 600 Bq/m³.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
4.6% of Canada’s 2,611 towns have a higher share of homes over 200 Bq/m³ than Tsinstikeptum 10, in the 10–20% band with 22%.
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 Tsinstikeptum 10 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). · Radon tests published for the Okanagan health region, not by town
Weather and fire alerts for Tsinstikeptum 10
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Tsinstikeptum 10; 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. |
Smoke and fire warnings for Tsinstikeptum 10 come through Environment Canada and Alert Ready; the fire map is CWFIS’s.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Tsinstikeptum 10
Wildfire band, earthquake risk, radon and flood studies for each place nearby.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tsinstikeptum 10 | Moderate | $0.012 | 17% | Yes |
| West Kelowna 40,274 · 5.6 km | High | $0.015 | 17% | Yes |
| Tsinstikeptum 9 10,514 · 6.4 km | High | $0.016 | 17% | Yes |
| Kelowna 167,654 · 6.9 km | High | $0.024 | 17% | Yes |
| Central Okanagan 4,784 · 15 km | High | $0.013 | 17% | Yes |
| Duck Lake 7 2,091 · 18 km | High | $0.016 | 17% | Yes |
| Peachland 6,302 · 19 km | High | $0.013 | 17% | Yes |
None of the places around has more fire nearby than Tsinstikeptum 10 (moderate); Tsinstikeptum 9 comes closest (high).
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Tsinstikeptum 10 faces
Practical steps for Tsinstikeptum 10’s hazards, most pressing first.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- 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.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- How close is the forest edge?
- 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 Tsinstikeptum 10’s.
- Wildfire counts one way. The wildfire figure is the share of land within 25 km of Tsinstikeptum 10’s homes burned each year from 1986 to 2025, past fire rather than a forecast, and it can only lower Risk.
- Radon is a survey. About 14,000 homes were tested across Canada in 2009–2011, and the share over the guideline for Tsinstikeptum 10 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 Tsinstikeptum 10.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Tsinstikeptum 10
Is Tsinstikeptum 10 at risk of wildfire?
Not much by Canadian standards: Tsinstikeptum 10’s band is moderate, with 25% of the land within 25 km burned since 1986 (last in 2025), so wildfire doesn’t change its grade.
Does Tsinstikeptum 10 flood?
There is flood mapping for Tsinstikeptum 10 on the national inventory, each study linked to its owner’s map, none of them graded.
Is radon a problem in Tsinstikeptum 10?
17% of the 109 homes Health Canada tested around Tsinstikeptum 10 topped the guideline; your own house needs its own test.
How big is the earthquake risk in Tsinstikeptum 10?
In NRCan’s seismic model, Tsinstikeptum 10’s buildings lose $0.012 per $1,000 of value in an average year.
How is Tsinstikeptum 10’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Hazard risk gives Tsinstikeptum 10 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).