Hudson's Hope

Its land, ranked in BC

Shares of the land area, worked out from the Province's maps. Fire perimeters before the 1950s are less complete. A title or a past fire somewhere in the area says nothing about a given lot: a property report checks the parcel itself.

Large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 1990

Since 1990, 2 wildfires of 1,000 ha or more burned in Hudson's Hope, together 1,269 ha, 1% of its land (ground that burned twice counts once). The most here was the Mount McAllister wildfire in 2014, 1,265 ha.

1. 2022Battleship Mountain wildfire34,753 ha in all · under 1% of it here4 ha here
2. 2014Mount McAllister wildfire26,281 ha in all · 5% of it here1,265 ha here

Smaller mapped fires since 2016

Since 2016, the BC Wildfire Service mapped 12 smaller fires (under 1,000 ha) that reached Hudson's Hope, newest first.

1. 2024Cameron Lake wildfire295 ha in all295 ha here
2. 2023Unnamed fire G704122.8 ha in all2.8 ha here
3. 2022Unnamed fire G70213103 ha in all · 5% of it here5.2 ha here
4. 2022Unnamed fire G721822.4 ha in all2.4 ha here
5. 2020Unnamed fire G701883 ha in all3 ha here
6. 2018Unnamed fire G7086815 ha in all15 ha here
7. 2018Unnamed fire G702111 ha in all1 ha here
8. 2016Carter Road wildfire453 ha in all453 ha here

And 4 more

1. 2016Hudsons Hope wildfire272 ha in all272 ha here
2. 2016Unnamed fire G7003342 ha in all42 ha here
3. 2016Unnamed fire G7011213 ha in all13 ha here
4. 2016Unnamed fire G700881 ha in all1 ha here

Small fires that were never mapped as a perimeter aren't listed: the BC Wildfire Service maps an outline for only some of the fires it records. Past fire is history, not a forecast. The chance of fire on a lot today depends on what the record doesn't show: the forest and grass around it, the slope, what has been thinned or burned since, and how far it is from a fire hall. Every BC season and large fire since 1990.

Sources: BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters – Historical, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Perimeters – Current, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Incident Locations – Historical, BC Wildfire Service; BC Wildfire Fire Locations – Current, BC Wildfire Service (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), as published on November 10, 2026; 2021 census subdivision boundaries, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Outlines simplified and places measured by PlaceDossier.

How the land burned

On the Province's ecosystem map, Hudson's Hope's land is 98% NDT3 (burned in large fires about every 100 to 150 years) and 2% NDT2 (burned in large fires about every 200 years). Its main biogeoclimatic zone is Boreal White and Black Spruce (98%). This is how the land burned before fires were put out, not its fire risk today. A report names the type over a lot. Every place's natural fire regime.

Source: BEC Map (biogeoclimatic zones and natural disturbance types), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), read 2026-10-12; areas worked out on the census boundaries.

Evacuations since April 2017

Since April 2017, the Province's record holds 1 wildfire event with an evacuation order or alert over Hudson's Hope, an order. The latest order: Battleship Mountain Wildfire, September 2022.

1. 2022Battleship Mountain WildfireSeptember 2022 · evacuation order · Hudsons Hope694 homes

Listed when an order or alert area covered at least 5% of the land in Hudson's Hope, or lay mostly in Hudson's Hope and held at least 5% as many homes as the 2021 census counted there. An order means people were told to leave; an alert, to be ready to leave. Homes are the record's own counts, area by area, shown where the areas lie mostly in Hudson's Hope. The Province's record starts in April 2017: earlier evacuations aren't in it. A lot's report checks every order and alert over the lot itself, and any in effect now.

Sources: Historical Orders and Alerts, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), as published on November 2, 2026; 2021 census subdivision boundaries and dwelling counts, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Each order and alert area placed in the municipalities and electoral areas it covers by us.

Evacuations for floods, landslides and other hazards since April 2017

None of the flood, landslide or other non-fire evacuation orders or alerts in the Province's record since April 2017 covered 5% or more of the land or homes in Hudson's Hope.

Sources: Historical Orders and Alerts, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), as published on November 2, 2026; 2021 census subdivision boundaries and dwelling counts, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Each order and alert area placed in the municipalities and electoral areas it covers by us.

4 landslides are recorded inside Hudson's Hope in the Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database (version 14.0): 3 earth slides and 1 debris avalanche. The database lists slides known to have happened, mapped from inventories, satellite images and lidar. It isn't a hazard map, and some parts of BC are mapped in far more detail than others. Landslides near a given lot.

The Province lists 5 dams in Hudson's Hope, 2 of them classed High or above for the harm a failure would do downstream: W.a.c. Bennett Dam (Extreme) and Peace Canyon Dam (Very High). The class rates what a failure would do, not how likely one is; a report names the dams within 1 km of a lot. Dams in BC, by place.

One Water Survey of Canada gauge in Hudson's Hope has 5 or more years of yearly peak flows: Peace River at Hudson Hope peaked highest at 5,580 m³/s in 1972 (47 years on record). A gauge's record is the river where it stands, not a flood line; a report gives the nearest gauge on a river by the lot. River gauges in BC, by place.

Poor-air days: at the Hudsons Hope Dudley Drive air monitoring station, 200 m from the town centre, fine particles passed the level of BC's 24-hour objective (25 µg/m³) on a median of 12 days a year over the 5 years with a full record, 2021 to 2025; the most was 63 days in 2023. These days fell both in the wildfire season and in winter (our reading: wildfire smoke in summer, wood smoke held in by still air in winter). How smoky it gets across BC.

Radon

In the Northeast health region, 20 of the 200 homes tested (10%) in Health Canada's 2009–2011 survey were at or above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline; across BC, 143 of 1,817 (7.9%).

The survey tested about a hundred volunteer homes per health region, with one long-term test each. That gives a rough regional picture: it isn't a map, and a region where few or none tested high can still have homes above the guideline. The only way to know is to test the home: radon and buying a home in BC.

Source: Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011), Health Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Health Service Delivery Area Boundaries, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

Check one lot: has it burned? · is it on a floodplain map? · is it behind a dike? · is there a dam nearby? · landslides nearby? · contaminated sites nearby? · radon? · how much is too steep?

Source: Agricultural Land Reserve polygons, Agricultural Land Commission (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Fire perimeters – historical, BC Wildfire Service (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Mineral, placer and coal tenures, Mineral Titles Branch (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database, version 14.0 (May 2026), Brideau et al. (CC BY 4.0); 2021 census subdivision boundaries, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence); Municipalities – Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (names and status), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

Hudson's Hope had 841 people in the 2021 census; the Province's 3-to-6-home floor starts above 5,000. So a zone limited to houses must allow at least one secondary suite or detached accessory home (a garden suite or carriage house) next to a house. A floor of 3 or 4 homes applies only on lots inside an urban containment boundary drawn in a regional growth strategy. How many homes you can build on a lot.

The Province's principal residence requirement doesn't apply in Hudson's Hope (list in force from June 1, 2026), so the provincial rule doesn't limit short-term rentals to the host's home. Local bylaws, including the zone's own rules, can be stricter. Hosts anywhere in BC register each unit with the provincial registry. Short-term rental rules in BC.

Reports for lots in Hudson's Hope can't name the zone: we have no open zoning map for it (see the places covered).

Ask the District of Hudsons Hope for a lot's zone and what it allows.

Check one lot: is it in the ALR? · is the soil good for farming? · is it in a community watershed?

Source: Agricultural Land Reserve polygons, Agricultural Land Commission (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); 2021 census subdivision boundaries, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence).

The Province's monitoring records hold groundwater samples from 1 well in Hudson's Hope, 2008. No well's median passed Health Canada's limits for arsenic, fluoride, manganese, uranium, nitrate or lead. A report names the nearest sampled wells within 10 km of a lot. A neighbouring well isn't your water: test your own. What BC's well water tests for, by place.

Mapped aquifers

3 mapped aquifers lie in Hudson's Hope, most wells first.

1. 1Aquifer 441: Lynx Creek; 7 km northeast of Hudson Hopefractured sedimentary rock16 wells · moderate productivity
2. 2Aquifer 440: Hudson Hopeunconfined sand and gravel (medium stream system)15 wells · moderate productivity
3. 3Aquifer 910: East Williston Lakeconfined sand and gravel (glacial)10 wells · moderate productivity

An aquifer is listed for each place that holds at least a twentieth of it, so a sliver of one at the edge can be left out. Wells and productivity are for the whole aquifer, which can reach well beyond Hudson's Hope. The province maps aquifers mostly in settled valleys, so a lot outside every outline can still have groundwater. Every mapped aquifer in BC · sampled lakes.

Sampled lakes

2 sampled lakes lie partly in Hudson's Hope, largest first.

1. 1Williston Lake1,727 km² · 3% of it heretoo few readings to judge
2. 2Cameron Lakes1 km² · 46% of it heretoo few readings to judge

A lake is listed for each place that holds at least a twentieth of it or 100 ha of it. Clarity is the median summer Secchi depth; the nutrient class is our reading of Carlson's index from phosphorus or chlorophyll, not a provincial rating. Either is given only for a lake with at least 10 summer readings from open water, spread over at least 3 different years, since 2012. Most lakes have never been sampled, so a lake missing here may simply have no record. Every sampled lake in BC.

Source: Groundwater wells (GWELLS), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Ground Water Aquifers, Water Protection and Sustainability Branch, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); BC Environmental Monitoring Data System (EnMoDS) results, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); 2021 census subdivision boundaries, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence).

No climate station with published normals within 30 km of the town centre.

Plant hardiness zone: 3b, for the homes here on Natural Resources Canada's 2025 map. Higher numbers are milder winters. What the zones mean.

Solar panels: a south-facing panel tilted at the latitude would make about 930 kWh a year for each kW of panels at Hudson's Hope's town centre, about 32 of it in December (estimated from Natural Resources Canada's 1998-2022 sunshine map). An open sky is assumed: the hills, trees and buildings around a lot cut it, and a report sets the lot's own skyline beside it. What solar panels would make in BC.

By the 2050s (2041-2070) at the town centre, climate models project about 7 more days over 30 °C a year, a longest frost-free run about 30 days longer and about 2 percentage points less of winter's precipitation falling as snow, each against the same models' 1971-2000 (model projections under SSP2-4.5, a middle path for emissions). The models work on a grid of about 9 by 6 km, which averages valley floors with the slopes around them, so their own figures can sit well off a station's normals and aren't comparable with them. Their own figures there: about 9 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range 6 to 18 across the models), against about 2 days in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 145 days (range 130 to 160), against about 115; and about 96% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 92% to 96%), against about 98%. The ranges run from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figures. The 2050s across BC.

Light at night within 1 km of Hudson's Hope's town centre: like a small town such as Gibsons, Sooke or Valemount (our reading), and darker than about 77% of BC's homes (2024 satellite record). A lot away from the centre can be much darker. How dark are BC's nights?

Lightning: around Hudson's Hope's town centre, a cloud-to-ground flash within 10 km on about 8 days a year and 0.20 flashes per km² a year, more than at 3 in 4 BC homes (the Canadian Lightning Detection Network, 1998-2025 average, on a grid of about 11 by 7 km).

Source: Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020 and 1981-2010, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Plant hardiness zones of Canada (2025 map), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Solar position: General Solar Position Calculations (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory; Spencer, 1971) (Public domain); Daily average solar irradiance on tilted surfaces for all of Canada (1998-2022), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Photovoltaic Potential and Solar Resource Maps of Canada (performance ratio), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Statistically downscaled climate indices from CMIP6 global climate models (CanDCS-M6), Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, via the Canadian Centre for Climate Services (Open Government Licence – Canada); Air Quality and Climate Monitoring: Verified Hourly Air Quality and Meteorological Data (fine particulate matter, PM2.5), BC Ministry of Environment and Parks (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); VIIRS Nighttime Lights, 2024 annual composite, Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines (Elvidge et al. 2021, Remote Sensing 13(5):922), via Hengl, OpenGeoHub, Zenodo doi 10.5281/zenodo.7750174 (CC BY 4.0); Canadian Lightning Detection Network cloud-to-ground flashes (CanCPLDv1), Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada).

The BC Energy Regulator maps about 10 km of active oil and gas pipeline in Hudson's Hope, permitted to FortisBC Energy Inc. About 9.8 km is abandoned or deactivated, often still in the ground. A report lists any pipeline within 200 m of a lot, and flags one within 30 m, where digging needs the permit holder's agreement. Pipelines in BC, by place.

The Province lists 5 active waste discharge authorizations in Hudson's Hope; the commonest kinds: power plant (3), composting site (1) and sewage treatment or discharge site (1). Of these, 1 may discharge to air, 3 effluent to water or land and 1 refuse to land. A report lists any within 2 km of a lot, and flags one whose point is on it. Permitted discharges in BC, by place.

The Province maps one open gravel pit or quarry in Hudson's Hope: P&L Ventures Gravel Pit South. A report lists the permits within 2 km of a lot, names an open pit or quarry within 500 m and flags one whose permit area takes in the lot. Gravel pits and mine permits in BC, by place.

On ParcelMap BC, the land in Hudson's Hope is 17% private, 25% Crown land with a parcel drawn (18% with no title); no parcel is mapped over 58%, likely most of it untitled Crown land, with lakes and road allowances. A report says who owns the land along a lot's line. Crown land next to a property, and every place's land by owner.

Hudson's Hope lies in wildlife management units 7-35 (53%), 7-32 (24%), 7-31 (22%): the Hunting and Trapping Regulations Synopsis sets seasons and closed areas by unit. Inside the municipality, its own bylaw can also ban firing a gun. Hunting and shooting on your own property.

Recreation Sites and Trails BC lists 2 sites in Hudson's Hope. A report names the nearest park and recreation site within 25 km of a lot. Parks and recreation sites in BC, by place.

Check one lot: is there a mineral claim? · power lines nearby? · pipelines nearby? · a gravel pit nearby? · a landfill or plant nearby? · logging planned nearby? · cattle on open range? · is there a trapline? · can I hunt on it? · a park nearby? · Crown land next door?

Source: Mineral, placer and coal tenures, Mineral Titles Branch (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); 2021 census subdivision boundaries, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence); Municipalities – Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (names and status), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

Fewer than 1,000 people live here, so Statistics Canada rounds these counts and leaves out some figures (shown as –).

Census figures are from 2021; the next census results start in 2027. Area boundaries are Statistics Canada's census subdivisions, which follow municipal and electoral area lines.

Source: Census of Population 2021, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence).