Lot in Port Alice (PID 000-174-831)

December 21 (shortest day)

5 h of possible direct sun; 7 h 50 min on open ground

March 21 (about the same on September 21)

9 h 50 min; 12 h on open ground

June 21 (longest day)

13 h 30 min; 16 h 10 min on open ground

Noon sun on December 21

16° above level; the hills due south rise to 5°, 10.5 km away

Highest hills in the winter sun's path

10° above level to the south-west, 4.1 km away

Measured at

The middle of the lot, ground at about 32 m, from head height

Solar panel output (south-facing, tilted at the latitude)

About 820 kWh a year for each kW of panels (December about 28), on Natural Resources Canada's 1998-2022 sunshine map; the sun on the panel's face is 2.99 kWh/m² a day over the year, 1.20 in December

Water the ground lets you see (16 km)

The sea (our reading of the elevation model) to the southwest, from about 300 m away, across about 165° of the horizon; Cayeghle Creek to the south, from about 5.3 km away

Highest skyline

23° above level to the north-northeast, 1.9 km away

Named peaks in view (150 km)

Mount Wolfenden to the west-northwest, 10 km away (about 1,193 m); Comstock Mountain to the northwest, 13 km away (about 1,091 m)

Highest ground in view

About 1,193 m: Mount Wolfenden, to the west-northwest, 10 km away

Farthest ground in view

About 15 km to the south

Most relief in one direction

To the west-northwest: from sea level, 3.2 km away, up to about 1,164 m, 9.5 km away

Town centres in line of sight

None within 150 km, over the bare ground

City lights in direct line (150 km)

None over the bare ground: the lit towns within 150 km are behind the hills or the curve of the earth (our reading)

Computed by us from the terrain only: trees, buildings and cloud aren't counted, so the sun that reaches a window or a garden is often less. The hours are possible direct sun, counted from when the sun's centre clears the hills, at head height at the middle of the lot; another spot on a hillside lot can differ.

The horizon is read from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model in 72 directions, out to 16 km: on its 30 m grid within 1.5 km, beyond that on a 120 m version of it, where single peaks can read a little lower than they are. The curve of the earth is taken into account.

The sun's path is from the standard solar position formulas. Hours are counted in sun time; clock times shift with daylight saving and with how far the lot is from its time zone's centre.

Check it on site: visit on a clear day in December or January, look at where the trees and buildings to the south fall, and ask neighbours when the sun leaves and comes back.

The panel output is our reading of Natural Resources Canada's figures: its map gives the sun reaching a south-facing panel tilted at the latitude, averaged over 1998-2022 on a grid of about 10 km, and we turn it into kWh for each kW of panels at the performance ratio its Photovoltaic Potential maps use (0.75: losses in heat, wiring, the inverter and dirt). The map is for an open sky: the hills around the lot, trees, buildings and snow on the panels aren't counted. The hills around this lot take about 35% of the direct sun on December 21 and about 17% on June 21 (our figure above), so a panel at the lot's middle would most likely make less than this, most of all in winter (our reading; the hills block direct sun, not all the light). A solar installer measures the roof or the spot itself.

What the ground allows you to see from head height at the middle of the lot, read by us on the same elevation model as the sun hours, out to 16 km: trees, buildings and the house's own spot and height aren't counted, so a view the ground allows can be hidden by the forest, and a second storey can see over a rise. Lakes and rivers are the Freshwater Atlas's; the sea is read where the elevation model sits at sea level.

Peaks, towns and the farthest ground are read by us out to 150 km on the same elevation model, coarser past 16 km (cells of 240 m to 60 km, 480 m beyond), with the curve of the earth and the usual bending of light: summits read lower than they are at that scale, so a peak only counts when it clears the ground before it, and one at the very edge of the skyline may be left out. It's what the bare ground allows on a perfectly clear day: haze, smoke, cloud, trees and buildings aren't counted. Peak names are BC Geographical Names'; peaks outside BC aren't named.

City lights in direct line are our reading: the satellite's lit cells (15 nW/cm²/sr and up, the brightness of a town centre or more) within 150 km, each named after the nearest town centre within 8 km, and a town counted when one of its brightest cells, taken 10 m above the ground, clears the bare ground before it on the same elevation model as the long view. It says where lights are in a straight line, not how bright they look: the glow a town throws over a ridge isn't modelled, so a town behind the hills can still light the sky above them, and haze, trees and buildings aren't counted.

Dams nearby

None within 1 km on the Province's list of dams

Dikes nearby

None within 1 km on the Province's map of dikes and flood protection works

These maps were drawn mostly in the 1980s and 1990s and cover only some rivers and lakes. Not being on one doesn't mean the land can't flood: ask the local government whether it has newer flood mapping, and whether its bylaws set a flood construction level or floodplain setback here.

Fires on the parcel

0

Fires within 2 km

2

Within 2 km in the last 30 years

0

Most recent nearby

1973 (68 ha, caused by people)

Largest nearby

1972 (82 ha, caused by people)

Causes on record within 2 km

2 caused by people

Natural fire regime (the Province's ecosystem map)

NDT1, rare stand-initiating events: forest where fire, wind and landslides rarely replace the stand, on average every 250 years (coastal and interior cedar–hemlock forest) to 350 (subalpine fir and mountain hemlock), and then mostly in small patches

Biogeoclimatic unit

Coastal Western Hemlock zone, very wet maritime subzone, Submontane variant (CWHvm1)

Slide on the lot

2021: severe over <1% of the lot

Western blackheaded budworm on the lot (in western hemlock)

2013: light over 1% of the lot

Within 1 km, not on the lot

Western blackheaded budworm in 2012 (nearest 320 m)

What the survey's classes mean

foliage damage: grey, trees killed by years of foliage damage, recorded once the outbreak has run its course; severe, most trees with more than half their foliage damaged; moderate, a third of many trees' foliage severely damaged; light, some branch tips and upper crowns damaged, barely visible from the air. trees killed: very severe, 50% or more of the trees recently killed; severe, 30 to 49% of the trees recently killed; moderate, 11 to 29%; light, 1 to 10%; trace, under 1%

Surveys read

1999 to 2025, the Province's own; on the lot or within 1 km of its line

Fire perimeters mapped by the BC Wildfire Service since 1919, each with its size and the cause the Service recorded (lightning or people, sometimes unknown); older and small fires are less complete. Past fire is history, not a forecast: for insurance, ask about the fire protection area and the distance to the nearest fire hall.

The natural disturbance type is how the forest here burned, blew down or otherwise renewed itself before logging and fire suppression, from the Province's biogeoclimatic map and its Biodiversity Guidebook (1995). It describes the land around the lot over centuries, not the lot's own fire risk or the odds of a fire in any year; the Province's fire threat rating and fuel maps aren't open data. Our summary, checked 2026-10-11.

The Province's Aerial Overview Survey is flown each summer from small planes 500 to 1,000 m up, sketching damaged stands on maps at 1:100,000 to 1:250,000: it gives the general location and rough extent of damage, not a ground count, and the Province says it isn't accurate enough to direct work on the ground. Most of the province is flown each year, but weather and smoke leave gaps, so a year with no record isn't a year with no damage. Each year's polygons record the trees recently killed (fading or red) or the foliage damaged that season, as the surveyors read it from the air; trees killed in earlier years aren't counted again, and dead trees may since have fallen, been logged or burned. Clumps of up to about 50 dead trees are mapped as spots, which aren't shown here. Our summary of the survey's standards and damage ratings, checked 2026-10-12.

Standing dead trees can be a cost to fell, add fuel for a fire, and change the view as they come down (our reading); a forester or certified arborist can say what stands on the lot now.

Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years (the code's design level)

0.74 g

Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years

0.42 g

Short-period shaking Sa(0.2), the value the code uses for houses and other low buildings

1.83 g

Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years, on softer ground

0.74 g on stiff soil (site class D), 0.67 g on soft soil, about the same as on firm ground

The same value in city centres

Victoria 0.81 g, Vancouver 0.47 g, Kelowna 0.089 g, Prince George 0.064 g

Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more recorded since 1985

22 within 50 km and 374 within 100 km

Largest within 100 km

M6.5 in April 2014, about 85 km away (NRCan: 117 km W of Gold R., BC)

Nearest of magnitude 3 or more

M3.3 in March 2021, about 25 km away (NRCan: 26 km W of Port Alice, BC)

Distance to the ocean shore

The lot reaches the shore (Freshwater Atlas coastline)

Tsunami notification zone

Zone C: the west coast of Vancouver Island from Cape Scott to Port Renfrew (the Province's zone for alerts on this coast)

Ground at the lot's middle

About 34 m above sea level (NRCan's 30 m elevation model; our reading, not a survey)

These are the 2020 National Building Code's reference values at the lot's centre, on firm ground (site class C), with the values the code gives stiff soil (D) and soft soil (E) beside them. Which class the lot's ground is isn't on any open map: the site class and the values a building is designed for come from the building official or a geotechnical engineer. Very soft ground, peat or fill that can liquefy (site class F) needs a site-specific assessment.

2% in 50 years means shaking at least this strong has about a 1-in-2,500 chance in any year; 10% in 50 years, about 1 in 475. g is the acceleration of gravity. The comparison with Vancouver and the other cities is ours.

Liquefaction and earthquake-triggered landslides aren't covered here; ask the local government whether it has mapped them.

Past earthquakes are those Natural Resources Canada's National Earthquake Database records within 100 km of the lot's middle since 1985, the start of its digital record, at magnitude 2.5 and up; blasts, mining events (tremors set off in a mine) and slides are left out. The seismograph network has grown much denser since then, so smaller quakes found today would have gone unrecorded in the 1980s, and positions are good to a few kilometres. A count of past quakes isn't a measure of the hazard: the building code's values above are.

The Province divides the coast into five tsunami notification zones so a warning, advisory or watch can name the coast it's for; they're drawn over the water and aren't a map of what a tsunami would flood. How high and how far inland water could reach here depends on the shore and the local government's own modelling: ask it whether it has a tsunami flood or evacuation map for the lot, and where its high ground is. The height is NRCan's 30 m model at the lot's middle, so a lower corner or a building's floor can sit lower.

The Province's advice near the coast: if you feel a strong earthquake, drop, cover and hold on, then as soon as the shaking stops go to high ground or as far inland as you can, by your community's evacuation route where it has one, and stay there until officials give the all clear. A tsunami from a nearby earthquake can arrive in minutes.

On record on the lot or within 100 m

0

On record within 1 km

1

On record within 5 km

8

Nearest

800 m from the lot: a debris flow, 2004–2006

Kinds within 5 km

debris avalanche 4, debris flow 4

With a date

4 of 8; the latest 2006–2007 (debris avalanche, 3.5 km from the lot)

This is a list of landslides that are known to have happened, gathered from published inventories and from mapping on satellite images and lidar. It isn't a hazard map: it doesn't say how likely a slide is here, and no record nearby doesn't mean the ground is stable. Some parts of BC (the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, recent burn areas) are mapped in far more detail than others.

Each point mostly marks where a slide started. Debris can travel well past it, down a creek channel and onto the fan at the creek's mouth, so a lot on a fan or below a steep slope can be reached by a slide that began kilometres away. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary.

The kind of slide and its date are the database's own, mostly worked out from images, so treat them as a first look. Confirm with the local government, many of which have mapped steep-slope or debris-flow hazard areas, and with a geotechnical engineer.

Health region (regional figure, not this lot)

North Vancouver Island

Homes tested here

106

At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline)

1 (0.9%)

At or above 600 Bq/m³

None

Across BC

143 of 1,817 homes (7.9%) at or above the guideline

Radon comes up from the ground and differs from one house to the next, even next door, so a regional figure says nothing certain about one home. The only way to know is a long-term test of at least 3 months. Health Canada's guideline is 200 Bq/m³ in the parts of a home where people spend more than 4 hours a day; above it, fix it within a year, and the higher the level, the sooner. For a home you buy, Health Canada suggests a long-term test once you've moved in.

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 survey grouped homes by the 2007 health regions; we place the lot by today's boundaries for the same areas.

Federal sites within 2 km

0

This inventory lists only contaminated sites on federal land or that the federal government is responsible for: military land, ports and harbours, airports, fisheries and research stations, reserve land, national parks and similar. Most contaminated sites in BC, such as old gas stations, dry cleaners and industrial land, are on the Province's Site Registry, which charges for searches and isn't shown here. Ask the seller what the land and its neighbours were used for; a Phase I environmental site assessment covers it properly.

Each site is one point given by its federal custodian, and a large site such as a base or an airport reaches well past it. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary to that point.

Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.

At-risk species or ecosystems on the parcel

None recorded

Within 500 m

None recorded

Wide-ranging species mapped over it

None

Secured records in the wider area

No

Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Proposed Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Proposed ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Federal critical habitat over the lot

Marbled Murrelet (terrestrial; site: West and North Vancouver Island)

Federal critical habitat placed by grid square

Little Brown Myotis: somewhere in the 50 km square that takes in the lot, not mapped closer; Northern Myotis: somewhere in the 50 km square that takes in the lot, not mapped closer

Sensitive ecosystems mapped on the lot

Not mapped here: the lot isn't covered by any of the Province's sensitive ecosystem inventories (checked 2026-10-11)

Invasive plants recorded on the lot

Japanese knotweed (a noxious weed in all of BC, 43 records, latest 2025-07-03)

Invasive plants recorded within 100 m

None on the Province's list

Red-listed species are at risk of being lost from BC; Blue-listed are of special concern. A record shows where the species was found, sometimes decades ago; no record doesn't mean nothing lives here, since most land has never been surveyed.

Federal critical habitat is the habitat a recovery strategy or action plan under the Species at Risk Act says a listed species needs to survive or recover (ss. 2, 41). On federal land the Act protects it by order (s. 58). On private and provincial land the Act leans on provincial and local law first; the federal Cabinet can order it protected where that falls short (s. 61). The Act's bans on harming a listed species or its residence apply everywhere for aquatic species and migratory birds, and elsewhere on private land only under a federal order (ss. 32 to 34). Our summary, read 2026-10-12.

Critical habitat for some sensitive species is kept off the public map; Environment and Climate Change Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry has each species' recovery strategy.

Species at risk can still limit building through local environmental development permit areas: ask the local government before planning work.

Under the Weed Control Act the occupier of land must control the noxious weeds growing on it (s. 2). An inspector can order it done, and the cost of control the owner doesn't pay is added to the property's taxes (s. 8). The Weed Control Regulation lists the noxious weeds: some everywhere in BC, others only in the regional districts named (Schedule A). Our summary, read 2026-10-12.

The Province's records come from invasive plant surveys, mostly since 2022, along roads, trails and shores and wherever crews were sent; no record doesn't mean no invasive plants. A record marks where a plant was found that day; it may since have been treated.

Community water

No open map of the Village of Port Alice's water service: ask the Village of Port Alice whether the lot is on it

Wells within 2 km

0

Median depth

–

Median tested yield

–

Median water level below ground

–

Mapped aquifer under the lot

None mapped

Sea water intrusion

Moderately Low (2 on the Province's scale of five, Low to High) for the bedrock aquifer under the lot in the 2021 assessment, rated on the aquifer's setting (its material, slope, distance from the sea and ground water level) and pumping nearby (how many wells, and what for); other ratings over the lot: low (per the Province's map)

Groundwater level trend

No provincial observation well still measured in the aquifer under the lot or within 10 km

Groundwater quality tested nearby

No well within 10 km of the lot in the Province's monitoring records since 2000. Test your own well, for bacteria and these, at an accredited lab; your health authority can say which labs take samples from private wells.

Drinking-water protection zone

None over the lot on the Province's map (it holds only the zones a water system's protection plan has mapped, so many wells and intakes have none on it)

Water systems' wells and intakes within 300 m

None on the Province's list

Community watershed

None over the lot on the Province's map

Neighbours' wells show what drillers found nearby, not what a new well here will find; many wells were never registered. For a property on a well, ask for a recent flow test and water quality test.

Productivity is how much water the aquifer gives up to wells; vulnerability is how easily a spill at the surface could reach it; both are the province's ratings for the whole aquifer, not this lot. Mapped aquifers cover mostly settled valleys: a lot outside every outline can still have groundwater. Confirm with a qualified hydrogeologist or registered well driller.

The Province's map is a regional screening of how easily sea water could be drawn into a coastal aquifer, not a test of any well. Near the sea, fresh ground water floats on salt water, and a well near the shore can turn salty with pumping, its own or its neighbours'; once in, the salt can take years to clear or stay for good, and a well must not be run in a way that draws it in (Water Sustainability Act, s. 58). The Province advises well owners near the coast to test for chloride and electrical conductivity once a year, in the dry season: a well over 150 mg/L of chloride or 1,000 µS/cm counts as affected, and water tastes salty from about 250 mg/L. For a property on a well here, ask for chloride and conductivity in the well water test. Our summary, read 2026-10-07.

Health Canada's Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality set the most a drinking water should hold: arsenic 0.010 mg/L, fluoride 1.5 mg/L, manganese 0.12 mg/L (and 0.02 mg/L for taste and for staining laundry and fixtures), uranium 0.02 mg/L, nitrate 10 mg/L as nitrogen (45 mg/L as nitrate) and lead 0.005 mg/L, with arsenic and lead kept as low as reasonably achievable. Our summary of Health Canada's summary table, read 2026-10-11.

Community sewer

No open map of the Village of Port Alice's sewer service: ask the Village of Port Alice whether the lot is on it

Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m

None recorded within 30 m

Mapped water within 30 m

8 unnamed streams and the ocean shore

Within the setbacks, under 15% slope (gravity fields, mounds and trenches)

16.5 ha (27%)

Within the setbacks, under 25% slope (mounds, at-grade beds and trenches)

25.9 ha (43%)

Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)

45.4 ha (74%)

Screening, not a site assessment: measured by us on the same elevation cells as the buildable area, against the separations in the Province's Sewerage System Standard Practice Manual: a field stays 30 m from a drinking-water well (60 to 90 m from a high-pumping one), 30 m from a lake, river or permanent stream (15 m from seasonal water and the sea), 7.5 m from a downslope drain or bank where effluent could break out, and, as a guideline, 3 m from the lot line. We use 30 m for every mapped stream. A gravity field isn't allowed on slopes over 15%, a mound or at-grade bed over 25%, and trenches over 45%.

Under the Sewerage System Regulation, only an Authorized Person (a Registered Onsite Wastewater Practitioner or a professional engineer or geoscientist) may plan and install a system, and they file the plans with the regional health authority before work starts. They dig test pits to check the soil depth and the seasonal water table and measure how fast the soil drains, which no open map shows. Ask the seller for the filing and maintenance records of an existing system, and have it inspected.

Well locations in GWELLS are often approximate, and many wells were never registered: look for well caps on and next to the lot. Wells, water lines and septic fields on the neighbours' land count too.

If the lot is on a community sewer, none of this applies; ask the local government, which may also set larger setbacks or a minimum lot size for septic.

The Province's reconnaissance karst map puts the lot on karst-prone rock: on karst, septic effluent can reach groundwater quickly through cracks in the rock, so tell whoever designs the system and ask the health authority's environmental health officer (our reading; see Buildable area).

Nearest hospital

Port McNeill Hospital: 35 km

Next nearest hospital

Port Hardy Hospital: 37 km

Nearest emergency department

Island Health's emergency department in Port Alice: 5.2 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call ahead to confirm

Nearest walk-in clinic

None within 30 km on HealthLink BC's list, which leaves many clinics out: ask the health authority or a local pharmacy

Nearest pharmacy

Harbourside Pharmacy, Port McNeill: 34 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Fri 09:00 to 17:30, Sat 09:00 to 17:00. Closed statutory holidays

School catchment

Not mapped for this lot: catchments are shown only where the school district's boundaries are open data, for Surrey Schools (Surrey and White Rock) and the North Vancouver School District (the City and District of North Vancouver). Ask the school district which schools serve it.

Nearest public elementary school

Sea View Elementary School, Port Alice: 5.5 km

Nearest public secondary school

Kyuquot Elementary Secondary: 36 km

Nearest public school with early French immersion

Ecole Des Deux Mondes Elementary, Campbell River: 162 km

Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone)

Secondaire Carihi, Campbell River: 162 km

Independent schools within 10 km on Vancouver Island

0

Nearest licensed group child care

None within 2 km on the Province's list; the nearest is 34 km away

Licensed family child care within about 2 km

None on the Province's list

Nearest grocery store

Family Foods: 5.3 km

Grocery stores within 10 km on Vancouver Island

1

Nearest fire station

Port Alice Fire Department: 5.4 km, on the Province's list

Nearest fire hydrant

Not said: we have no open hydrant map of the Village of Port Alice; ask its fire department where the nearest hydrant is

Nearest ambulance station

Ambulance station 172, Port Alice: 5.4 km

Nearest police detachment or station

Port Alice RCMP: 5.2 km

Nearest transfer station or landfill

Seven Mile Landfill: 29 km

Nearest post office

Port Alice: 5.3 km

Postal area

V0N: Canada Post marks it a rural postal area (a 0 as the second character): mail mostly goes to a post office box or a rural route box, not to the door, and couriers often add a charge for rural postal codes (our reading).

Nearest gas station

Port Alice Petroleum: 7 km

Nearest Service BC office

Service BC - Port Hardy: 37 km

Nearest airport with screened airline flights

Campbell River airport (YBL): 163 km

Vancouver International Airport (YVR), BC's main airport for flights abroad

334 km

Nearest transit stop

None within 25 km on BC Transit's or TransLink's schedules

Nearest park or protected area

Muqqiwn/Brooks Peninsula Park, a provincial park: 12 km from the lot line

Nearest recreation site or trail

Spruce Bay, on Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list: 6.3 km from the lot line

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us. The drive is longer, and much longer where the road winds, crosses water or takes a ferry.

Hospitals are from the Province's list; emergency departments and walk-in clinics from HealthLink BC's lists, with the hours they give. Not every hospital has a 24-hour emergency department, and a small town's emergency department can close for a shift when it's short of staff: the health authority posts these as service changes, so check before you rely on one. In an emergency, call 9-1-1.

Which school a child goes to depends on the school district's catchment, not on distance: ask the district.

French programs are from the Ministry's school list. French immersion usually takes students by application or lottery, often with its own boundary, and the Conseil scolaire francophone's schools are for children whose parents have the right to French-language education: ask the district which applies.

Child care is from the Province's Child Care Map Data, listed October 13, 2026: licensed facilities the Province funds, so a licensed one without that funding, or a licence-not-required carer, isn't on it. The ages served and any space are what each operator reports, and many list no ages. A space reported weeks ago may be gone: ask the facility about spaces and wait lists.

The fee reduction is the Province's Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative (CCFRI): a facility taking part charges lower monthly fees for children up to kindergarten age (our summary).

Licensed family child care is in the provider's own home, so we count it but don't name or place it. It's counted on a grid of about 1 km, so the count near 2 km is approximate (our reading).

A fire station nearby doesn't mean it covers this lot: confirm the fire protection area with the local government. Insurers price fire cover by the road distance to the hall that responds and whether the lot is inside a fire protection area.

Insurers ask how far the house is from a hydrant as well as from the fire hall that responds: ask yours what distance it uses and what that does to the premium.

Fire halls, ambulance stations and police are from the Province's First Responders list (updated 2026-09-11), with fire stations it lacks added from OpenStreetMap. A hall that has moved may still be listed at its old address.

An ambulance station is where crews are based. How soon one arrives depends on where the crew is when the call comes.

A detachment is where police are based; it isn't always the force that covers the lot, and a community policing office is often volunteer-run with no officers on hand. Ask the local government which police serve the lot. In an emergency, call 9-1-1.

Pharmacies are from HealthLink BC's list, with the hours it gives: a few pharmacies are in clinics or programs for their own patients, and hours change, so call ahead.

Transit stops and departures are counted by us from BC Transit's and TransLink's published schedules for one week, leaving out the stop where a trip ends. A stop's distance is a straight line from the middle of the lot; the walk is longer. Service changes with the seasons: check the timetable before you count on a route.

Parks and recreation sites are measured in a straight line from the lot line. Conservancies, regional and municipal parks aren't on these lists. Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list doesn't say whether a site is open, closed or reachable this season: check its page before you go.

Grocery stores, transfer stations, landfills, recycling depots, post offices, gas stations are from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers: one may be missing, closed or mapped in the wrong place, and a landfill may be closed without the map saying so (our reading).

The lot is on Vancouver Island, by our reading of the Province's island outlines. Where the lot's own island has a service, its nearest one is named first; one marked "across the water" is a ferry or boat ride away, however short the straight line.

The postal area is Statistics Canada's outline of where a postal code's first three characters are used, drawn from postal code points, so near its edge the lot may fall in the next one. It doesn't say how this lot's mail is delivered: ask Canada Post, and give a courier or online store the full postal code to see what they charge.

Airports with screened airline flights are the ones the CATSA Aerodrome Designation Regulations list, where the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority screens passengers, kept where OurAirports also lists scheduled flights (Dawson Creek is designated but has none listed). Smaller airports and floatplane bases with scheduled flights aren't screened and aren't on this list, so a nearer one may have flights: check with the airlines. Distances are straight lines; the drive, or a ferry, is longer.

Confirm services with the local government.

Best speed recorded within about 1 km

none

Over a wired line (cable, fibre or DSL)

none recorded

Over fixed wireless

none recorded

LTE mobile within about 1 km

recorded

Nearest place with 50/10 Mbps or faster

about 3.3 km away

Data

ISED National Broadband Data, May 2026

Mobile carriers listed in the area around the lot (about 25 km²)

Bell and Telus (one shared network) (ISED, reported, not a guarantee at the lot)

Nearest FM radio transmitter

CFPA-FM, 100.3 MHz low-power FM, 20 W, at Port Alice, about 4 km to the north; hills about 1.7 km away rise to 15.8° in its direction, above the line to the antenna: likely blocked by the bare ground (our reading)

Nearest TV transmitter

None in operation within 50 km on ISED's list

Bell satellite TV dish sightline

82° W sits 18° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 12°; 91.1° W sits 23° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 15° (terrain only; our reading)

Shaw Direct satellite TV dish sightline

107.3° W sits 29° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 23°; 111.1° W sits 30° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 26° (terrain only; our reading)

Starlink: sky hidden by the hills

The hills rise past 20° in 10% of directions round the lot's middle, up to 23° (terrain only; our reading)

This is the service providers report to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for homes and roads near the lot, not a quote: ask providers whether they serve this address, at what speed and at what cost to connect.

Speeds are download/upload bands. 50/10 Mbps is ISED's top band, so a place in it can get much faster service, and it is the CRTC's target for every Canadian home.

A line that reaches homes within 1 km may stop short of this lot; bringing it further can cost the buyer. Fixed wireless and LTE need a clear line to the tower, which hills and tall trees can block.

Satellite service doesn't need nearby lines, but it needs a clear view of the sky.

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us on a grid of about 250 m.

Mobile carriers are those Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) lists for mobile service in its hexagon of about 25 km² holding the lot's middle; ISED counts LTE and 5G together and doesn't say how much of the hexagon a carrier covers, so a listed carrier may not reach the lot, the house or the valley floor. Cell tower positions aren't open data. Ask the carriers, or try a phone on site.

Broadcast transmitters are from ISED's Spectrum Management System extract: the nearest FM and TV transmitters in operation within 50 km of the lot's middle, with their effective radiated power. Whether the bare ground blocks the line is our reading on the elevation model the Winter sun section reads (out to 16 km round the lot; hills beyond it aren't counted); trees, buildings and an antenna's height on the house aren't, and reception also depends on power, distance and the receiver.

Satellite sightlines are our reading: each geostationary satellite's place in the sky from the lot's middle (Telesat's orbital slots, read 2026-10-13) set against the skyline the Winter sun section reads on NRCan's elevation model, in 72 directions out to 16 km. Trees and buildings, which most often decide whether a dish sees its satellite, aren't counted, and a dish can sit higher or elsewhere on the lot. Starlink asks for a clear view of the sky from about 20° above the horizon and picks its own direction: its app's obstruction check on site is the real test.

Nearest climate station

Port Alice, 400 m away

Station elevation

21 m

Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)

34 m

January mean temperature (1981-2010)

4.9 °C*

July mean temperature (1981-2010)

16.1 °C*

Yearly precipitation, rain and snow as water (1981-2010)

3,427 mm*

Yearly snowfall (1981-2010)

28 cm*

Days with snow on the ground, 1 cm or more (1981-2010)

5 days a year, 2 days of them in January*

Wettest day in the station's record to 2010

233.7 mm of rain and melted snow, November 12, 1975

Most snow in a day in the station's record to 2010

53 cm, February 27, 1933

Deepest snow on the ground in the station's record to 2010

30 cm, January 14, 2000

Period

1981-2010

By the 2050s, days a year over 30 °C (model projection, SSP2-4.5)

About as many days over 30 °C a year as in the same models' 1971-2000

By the 2050s, longest frost-free run (model projection, SSP2-4.5)

A longest frost-free run about 50 days longer than in the same models' 1971-2000

By the 2050s, winter precipitation falling as snow (model projection, SSP2-4.5)

About 14 percentage points less of winter's precipitation falling as snow than in the same models' 1971-2000

Air monitoring station measuring fine particles

None within 30 km with 5 or more full years of readings

Lightning near the lot (1998-2025 average)

A cloud-to-ground flash within 10 km on about 2 days a year; 0.02 flashes per km² a year, less than at half of BC homes

Normals are 30-year averages at the station, not readings for this lot. In BC's mountains a few hundred metres of elevation, a north-facing slope or a lakeshore can change winters a lot: a hillside lot can be much colder and snowier than a valley station.

The lot's elevation is our estimate from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model at the middle of the lot.

* Based on fewer years than the WMO standard: these figures rest on at least 20 or 15 of the 30 years, short of the World Meteorological Organization's standard of nearly all of them. ECCC publishes them as normals; treat them as a rougher guide.

The records are single days measured at the station: the most rain, snow and wind it saw in its record up to 2010 (ECCC's 1981-2010 sets give records over the station's whole history, so some dates are older than 1981). Each is one event, not what to expect in a year, and the lot can get more or less than the station.

ECCC's 1981-2010 normals for this station don't include the frost-free period, the lowest temperature recorded, days over 30 °C or degree days, so those are left out rather than guessed.

Model projections, not predictions of the weather: the median of 26 climate models downscaled by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (CanDCS-M6), for 2041-2070 under SSP2-4.5, a middle path for emissions. Each is given as the change from the same models' 1971-2000, not against a station's normals: in the mountains the models' figures can sit well off a valley station's, and the change between the two periods says more than either number. The frost-free run is the longest stretch of days with the low at or above 0 °C. The share of winter's precipitation falling as snow is our reading: each model's December to February snowfall over its precipitation, then the median across the models.

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. The models' own figures here, for setting against each other only: about under 1 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range under 1 to 1 across the models), against about under 1 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 245 days (range 225 to 310), against about 195; and about 6% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 4% to 10%), against about 20%. The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figure; it isn't a range of the change.

Lightning is the Canadian Lightning Detection Network's cloud-to-ground flashes, averaged over 1998-2025, on Environment and Climate Change Canada's grid of 0.1 degrees (about 11 km north to south and 7 km east to west in BC): it is the area's lightning, not the lot's. A day counts when a flash fell in a grid cell whose middle is within 10 km of the middle of the lot's cell, by the Pacific standard time day (our reading); flashes per km² are for the lot's own cell. Set among BC's homes by Statistics Canada's 2021 dwellings on ISED's points. Lightning starts fires and can damage a well pump, panels or wiring on high open ground; ask an electrician about surge protection.

ECCC has no fuller 1991-2020 set for this station, so these are its 1981-2010 normals; recent years have run warmer than them in most of BC. Ask neighbours or the local government about snow on the road and who clears it.

Local government

Port Alice

Residential rate, 2026

8.81794 per $1,000

Municipal

5.35188 per $1,000

Regional district

0.61073 per $1,000

Regional hospital district

0.24853 per $1,000

School (set by the Province)

2.2533 per $1,000

Other

0.3535 per $1,000

BC municipalities' middle rate

6.24337 per $1,000

Your bill uses BC Assessment's value for the property, which can differ from its price, and may also include parcel taxes and utility fees (water, sewer, garbage) that aren't rates on value.

The home owner grant takes up to $570 off the bill of a home its owner lives in ($770 in the Province's northern and rural area in 2026, and up to $845, or $1,045 there, for seniors, veterans and people with a disability), for homes assessed at $2,075,000 or less in 2026; above that it shrinks by $5 for each $1,000. From 2027 the northern and rural extra ends and the regular grant is $570 everywhere. The owner applies each year, and must pay at least $350 in tax ($100 for the higher grant) after it.

Rates are set each May for the year; the next year's will differ.

Police service

The Port McNeill RCMP detachment (rural; inferred)

Crime severity index, 2025

92 (BC 92)

Violent / non-violent index

100 / 90 (BC 98 / 91)

Crime severity index, 2015

58 (BC 93)

Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025

257 (BC 281)

Theft of a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025

70 (BC 138)

Theft from a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025

233 (BC 441)

Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025

2,894 (BC 1,531)

All Criminal Code offences (not traffic), per 100,000 people, 2025

8,121 (BC 6,943)

Inferred: Statistics Canada publishes no police figures under Port Alice's name, even where a detachment works in the town. These are the nearest RCMP rural detachment's it does publish, about 34 km away: figures for that detachment's area, not for Port Alice. BC's police boundaries aren't open data; the local RCMP can say whose figures include Port Alice.

The crime severity index weighs each offence by how serious it is (one assault counts for more than several thefts), with Canada in 2006 set at 100. Rates are per 100,000 people living in the police service's area, so places with many visitors, commuters or seasonal homes read high, and in small places a few incidents swing the figures a lot. These are crimes reported to police, not all crime.

In BC only Surrey, the Township of Langley, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam publish reported property crime block by block under an open licence; reports there count what was reported within 500 m of the lot. The police here don't, so the figures above are for the whole area they cover.

Police calls to a particular address aren't published in BC (privacy law keeps police records about identifiable people closed), and neither is whether a home was used as a grow-op or drug lab: that shows up as a notice on the title. Ask the seller for the Property Disclosure Statement, and your lawyer for the title search.