North Okanagan, Electoral Area F

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, 3 wildfires of 1,000 ha or more burned in Area F, together 7,386 ha, 4% of its land (ground that burned twice counts once). The most here was the Bunting Road wildfire in 2021, 5,199 ha.

1. 2021Bunting Road wildfire5,204 ha in all5,199 ha here
2. 2018Unnamed fire K418131,370 ha in all1,370 ha here
3. 2003Unnamed fire K404691,586 ha in all · 52% of it here817 ha here

Smaller mapped fires since 2016

Since 2016, the BC Wildfire Service mapped 26 smaller fires (under 1,000 ha) that reached Area F, newest first. This season's are as mapped by November 9, 2026.

1. 2026Unnamed fire K412401.9 ha in all1.9 ha here
2. 2026Unnamed fire K420271.5 ha in all1.5 ha here
3. 2024Unnamed fire K41814148 ha in all148 ha here
4. 2024Wap Creek wildfire4.4 ha in all4.4 ha here
5. 2023Shuswap River wildfire22 ha in all22 ha here
6. 2023Unnamed fire K4021611 ha in all11 ha here
7. 2023Unnamed fire K423982.5 ha in all2.5 ha here
8. 2023Kidney Lake wildfire1.7 ha in all1.7 ha here

And 18 more

1. 2023Unnamed fire K424541.1 ha in all1.1 ha here
2. 2022Cooke Creek wildfire65 ha in all65 ha here
3. 2021Wap Creek wildfire745 ha in all · 98% of it here729 ha here
4. 2021Upper Kingfisher wildfire20 ha in all20 ha here
5. 2021Clarly Creek wildfire3.3 ha in all3.3 ha here
6. 2021Baird Lake wildfire1.2 ha in all1.2 ha here
7. 2019Unnamed fire K415925.3 ha in all5.3 ha here
8. 2018Unnamed fire K42067504 ha in all504 ha here
9. 2018Unnamed fire K42099169 ha in all169 ha here
10. 2018Unnamed fire K42136126 ha in all126 ha here
11. 2018Unnamed fire K4218599 ha in all99 ha here
12. 2018Unnamed fire K4181243 ha in all43 ha here
13. 2018Unnamed fire K4284721 ha in all21 ha here
14. 2018Unnamed fire K4202215 ha in all15 ha here
15. 2018Unnamed fire K401172.1 ha in all2.1 ha here
16. 2017Unnamed fire K312081.5 ha in all1.5 ha here
17. 2017Unnamed fire K418591 ha in all1 ha here
18. 2016Unnamed fire K302091.9 ha in all1.9 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, Area F's land is 38% NDT1 (rarely burned, about every 250 to 350 years and in patches), 26% NDT3 (burned in large fires about every 100 to 150 years), 25% NDT2 (burned in large fires about every 200 years), 8% NDT4 (burned often and lightly, every 4 to 50 years) and 3% NDT5 (alpine tundra and subalpine parkland). Its main biogeoclimatic zones are Interior Cedar–Hemlock (64%) and Engelmann Spruce–Subalpine Fir (35%). 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

None of the wildfire evacuation orders or alerts in the Province's record since April 2017 covered 5% or more of the land or homes in Area F.

Listed when an order or alert area covered at least 5% of the land in Area F, or lay mostly in Area F 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 Area F. 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 Area F.

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.

15 landslides are recorded inside Area F in the Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database (version 14.0), including 5 debris avalanches, 3 rock slides and 2 debris flows. The latest with a date of its own: a debris avalanche, 2018 (listed under “Johnson Creek 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 maps about 1.5 km of dikes in Area F, along Shuswap River; the longest are the Carbert Farm, Enderby dike, Jacques Road Dike and the PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL dike. Under a kilometre is orphaned, with no local authority responsible. A dike lowers the chance of a flood behind it, not to nothing; a report names the dikes within 1 km of a lot and who maintains them. Dikes in BC, by place.

The Province lists 12 dams in Area F, none classed High or above for the harm a failure would do downstream. One of them is recorded as breached (failed). 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.

2 Water Survey of Canada gauges in Area F have 5 or more years of yearly peak flows: Shuswap River near Enderby peaked highest at 513 m³/s in 2012 (34 years on record) and Shuswap River at Outlet of Mabel Lake peaked highest at 535 m³/s in 1972 (9 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.

Radon

In the Okanagan health region, 19 of the 109 homes tested (17%) 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).

Area F is outside the Province's speculation and vacancy tax area, so the tax doesn't apply to a home here. Our summary of the Province's pages, read 2026-10-04. Where the tax applies, and who pays.

The typical home here is the median value owners gave the 2021 census, and the typical household's income is the median for 2020: a home that costs 8.3 years of income took that many years of a typical household's whole income. "Typical" for places its size is the middle of BC's rural electoral areas.

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

In Area F, a zone limited to detached 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 on rural land only inside an urban containment boundary drawn in a regional growth strategy, and most rural land is outside one. None of it applies on land in an Islands Trust local trust area or under a rural land use bylaw, and in the Agricultural Land Reserve the Commission's limits come first. How many homes you can build on a lot.

The Province's principal residence requirement doesn't apply in Area F (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 Area F can't name the zone: we have no open zoning map for it (see the places covered).

Ask the North Okanagan Regional District for a lot's zone and what it allows.

The Regional District of North Okanagan's building inspection covers all of Area F (Building Bylaw No. 2670, 2015): building, adding on, moving or demolishing a building needs a building permit, and the work is inspected. Our reading of the Regional District of North Okanagan's own page, checked 2026-10-07. Do you need a building permit on rural land?

The Province maps 3 designated community watersheds, Brash Community Watershed, East Canoe Community Watershed and Glanzier Community Watershed, over 3% of Area F: land draining to a licensed drinking-water intake, where logging and roads on Crown land must protect the supply. A report says whether a lot lies in one and whose water it is. Community watersheds in BC, by place.

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).