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Kitimat-Stikine Regional District

Hazelton, Kitimat, New Hazelton, Stewart and Terrace and 6 electoral areas, 85,753 km² in all. 30,442 people lived in them in 2021, up 2% from 2016, not counting First Nations reserves, which the census counts on their own. 0.7% of the land is in the farmland reserve, and 1.8% has burned in a mapped wildfire since 1996.

The Kitimat-Stikine Regional District's places. Tap one for its page, or zoom in to see its lots and open one's dossier

Its places

Each place's page has its land, hazards, wells, climate, tax and census facts. Listed by name, not ranked.

PlacePeople, 2021LandIn the farmland reserveBurned since 1996
Hazelton
village		2573 km²under 0.1%none
Kitimat
district municipality		8,236258 km²2%0.2%
New Hazelton
district municipality		60225 km²40%under 0.1%
Stewart
district municipality		517562 km²nonenone
Terrace
city		12,01759 km²18%0.3%
Electoral Area A4825,621 km²noneunder 0.1%
Electoral Area B1,4557,488 km²4.9%1%
Electoral Area C (Part 1)2,9789,834 km²2%0.2%
Electoral Area D7428,674 km²under 0.1%3.5%
Electoral Area E3,93217 km²20%none
Electoral Area F32613,213 km²none3.2%

Land and shares measured by us from the provincial maps (farmland reserve, BC Wildfire Service perimeters) over Statistics Canada's 2021 census subdivisions; people from the 2021 census.

Zoning

We have no open zoning map of the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District's electoral areas, so reports there don't name the zone; each area's page says what we know and whom to ask. Each of its 5 municipalities zones its own land; its page says what we show there.

Building permits

Where the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District's building inspection covers its electoral areas: there a building permit is needed and the work is inspected.

Electoral areaCovered by building inspection
Electoral Area ANone
Electoral Area BNone
Electoral Area C (Part 1)None
Electoral Area DNone
Electoral Area ENone
Electoral Area FNone

Our reading of the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine's own page, checked 2026-10-07. Inside a municipality, the town or city runs its own building permits; the BC Building Code applies everywhere. Do you need a building permit on rural land?

Wildfire

Since 1990, 21 wildfires of 1,000 ha or more burned in the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District's places, in 9 seasons. The largest here:

  1. 2018Unnamed by the BC Wildfire Service (fire R91947)121,215 ha in all58,806 ha here
  2. 1998Unnamed by the BC Wildfire Service (fire R90054)12,315 ha in all12,314 ha here
  3. 1998Unnamed by the BC Wildfire Service (fire R90058)11,295 ha in all11,295 ha here
  4. 2018Unnamed by the BC Wildfire Service (fire R92303)11,000 ha in all11,000 ha here
  5. 2010Unnamed by the BC Wildfire Service (fire R90039)9,330 ha in all9,330 ha here
  6. 2010Unnamed by the BC Wildfire Service (fire R90044)9,330 ha in all9,330 ha here

Each place's page lists every large and smaller mapped fire in it. Every BC season and large fire since 1990.

Major projects

The Environmental Assessment Office's register places 23 major projects in assessment or approved in the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District's places.

The register places each project at one point; a mine, pipeline or line can reach well past it. Every major project in BC by place.

Check one lot: is it in the ALR? · is it on a floodplain map? · has it burned? · how deep are the wells? · is there room for a septic field? · short-term rentals? · property tax?

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