PlaceDossier / Penticton
Property dossier · British Columbia
673 Duncan Ave W, Penticton
- PID
- 002-340-585
- Mapped area
- 2.51 ha (6.19 acres)
- Local government
- Penticton
- Plan
- KAP841
Reading the BC records for this lot: about 15 seconds. The report appears here when they're in.
- §01Road access
- §02What you can build (zoning)
- §03Buildable area
- §04Floodplain
- §05Wildfire history
- §06Evacuation orders and alerts
- §07Water and streamside setbacks
- §08Water wells nearby
- §09Septic
- §10Farmland reserve (ALR)
- §11Mineral and placer titles
- §12What's planned nearby
- §14Wildlife and habitat
- §15Earthquake shaking
- §16Landslide records
- §17Federal contaminated sites
- §18Noise sources nearby
- §19Services nearby
- §20Internet
- §21Winter sun
- §22Soil for farming
- §23Climate
- §24Radon
- §25Property tax
- §26Speculation and vacancy tax
- §27Crime
Property dossier · British Columbia
673 Duncan Ave W, Penticton
Also 1080 Railway St and 1091 Timmins St: the lot's other civic addresses on the BC Address Geocoder (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
Penticton
Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen
- PID
- 002-340-585
- Mapped area
- 2.51 ha (6.19 acres)
- Local government
- Penticton
- Checked
- Oct 20, 2026
placedossier.com/p/002340585 · checked 2026-10-20
On the plan: everything we found660 m across
Plan is our drawing of every layer in this report on one sheet, with contours every 0.5 m (340–349 m above sea level) from NRCan's lidar elevation model (Okanagan survey, 2018; read at 4 m): the sheet that prints. Drawn from the sources in each section; lines can be metres off. Not a survey.
26 public records
iWhat these mean
- Look into
- Something on or near this lot that's worth checking before you buy. Each section decides it for this lot from its own records: Winter sun, for one, only where the hills block much of the December sun.
- This lot
- The lot's own ground (zoning, slope, water, access, wells, septic), with nothing in the record to look into. Shown in full.
- Background
- Figures for the place around the lot (earthquakes, climate, services, taxes and the like) that read much the same for its neighbours. One line each; open one to read it.
- Nothing found
- Checked, and nothing on the record here.
- Not covered
- What these public records can't answer for this lot.
Each count is the sections in that group; the strip shows them in page order. Every finding names its source.
Around the lot
Nearest of each, from the lot's edge- Public roadon or at the lotlane or service road
- Water wellon or at the lota water-supply well on record
- Trailon or at the lotAn unnamed footpath
- Highway or major road10 mRailway Street (Highway 97)
- Dike330 mthe Okanagan Flood Control (Coldstream District) dike
- Airport or airstrip1.5 kmPenticton Regional Airport
Nothing within 180 m: water, wildfire, logging or crown land plan, power line, pipeline, gravel pit or quarry, military land, railway, farmland reserve, floodplain map, mineral or placer title. Measured by us on the plan's lines, so expect a few metres either way. Each section has the official figures.
Sections
Look into4
Found on or near this lot, and worth checking before you buy.
§14Wildlife and habitat Look into
The Conservation Data Centre records 1 species or ecosystem at risk on this parcel: Sandhill Skipper (Red-listed).
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.
The record
- At-risk species or ecosystems on the parcel
- Sandhill Skipper (Red-listed)
- Within 500 m
- Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel (Red-listed), Olive Clubtail (Blue-listed), Painted Turtle - Intermountain - Rocky Mountain Population (Blue-listed)
- Wide-ranging species mapped over it
- American Badger (Red-listed)
- Secured records in the wider area
- Yes (location withheld by the CDC)
- Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel
- No
- Ungulate winter range over the parcel
- mule deer
- Proposed Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel
- No
- Proposed ungulate winter range over the parcel
- No
- Federal critical habitat over the lot
- Western Tiger Salamander - Southern Mountain population (core habitat; site: Okanagan-Similkameen (north); a wide area, up to 1,611 ha)
- Federal critical habitat placed by grid square
- Desert Nightsnake: somewhere in the 10 km square that takes in the lot, not mapped closer; Great Basin Gophersnake: somewhere in the 10 km square that takes in the lot, not mapped closer; Western Rattlesnake: somewhere in the 10 km square that takes in the lot, not mapped closer
- Sensitive ecosystems mapped on the lot
- None: the inventory maps no sensitive ecosystem on the lot
- Sensitive ecosystem mapping
- South Okanagan TEM (1:20,000)
- Invasive plants recorded on the lot
- None on the Province's list
- Invasive plants recorded within 100 m
- None on the Province's list
The CDC hides the exact location of some sensitive species inside large blocks; it shares details with landowners and their consultants on request (cdcdata@gov.bc.ca).
Wildlife Habitat Areas and ungulate winter ranges are set under the Forest and Range Practices Act and mainly limit logging and range use on Crown land; on private land they don't stop building by themselves, but they show what uses the land.
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.
The Sensitive Ecosystems Inventory maps rare and fragile ecosystems from air photos, mostly at 1:20,000, some checked on the ground; a polygon often holds a mix of ecosystems, and the land may have changed since the photos were taken. It's a planning tool, not a site assessment. Councils in the Okanagan, on east Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands and elsewhere draw environmental development permit areas from it, so ask the local government whether one covers the lot, and a qualified environmental professional what is on the ground. Our summary, checked 2026-10-11.
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.
Sources (7)
Species and Ecosystems at Risk, publicly available occurrences, BC Conservation Data Centre (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Wildlife Habitat Areas and Ungulate Winter Ranges (approved), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Wildlife Habitat Areas - Proposed, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Ungulate Winter Range - Proposed, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Critical Habitat for federally-listed species at risk (posted), Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Sensitive Ecosystems Inventory (SEI) Detailed Polygons, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Invasive Species Observations (InvasivesBC), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§09Septic Look into
We have no open map of the City of Penticton's water and sewer service: most lots in town are on it (our reading); ask the City of Penticton before planning a well or field. If the lot isn't on sewer: about 1.9 ha (77%) of the lot is at least 30 m from mapped water and recorded wells, 3 m in from the lot lines and under 25% slope, where the Province's manual allows most kinds of septic field.
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%.
The record
- Community sewer
- No open map of the City of Penticton's sewer service: ask the City of Penticton whether the lot is on it
- Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m
- 2, on the lot; well tags 119940, 119939
- Mapped water within 30 m
- None mapped
- Within the setbacks, under 15% slope (gravity fields, mounds and trenches)
- 1.8 ha (73%)
- Within the setbacks, under 25% slope (mounds, at-grade beds and trenches)
- 1.9 ha (77%)
- Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)
- 2 ha (80%)
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.
Sources (6)
Sewerage System Standard Practice Manual, version 3 (2014), Province of BC: Tables II-6, II-19 and III-16, summarised in our words, read 2026-10-04 (summarised in our words); Sewerage System Regulation, B.C. Reg. 326/2004, summarised in our words, read 2026-10-04 (summarised in our words); Groundwater wells (GWELLS), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); High Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM), lidar DTM from the Okanagan survey (2018), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Freshwater Atlas and designated floodplain maps, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Terrain Stability Mapping (TSM) Detailed Polygons, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§05Wildfire history Look into
No recorded fire on the parcel; 6 recorded within 2 km, most recently in 2021. The Province's ecosystem map puts the lot in dry forest and grassland that burned often and lightly before fires were put out (NDT4).
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 record
- Fires on the parcel
- 0
- Fires within 2 km
- 6
- Within 2 km in the last 30 years
- 4
- Most recent nearby
- 2021 (1 ha, cause unknown)
- Largest nearby
- 1985 (180 ha, caused by people)
- Causes on record within 2 km
- 5 caused by people, 1 cause unknown
- Natural fire regime (the Province's ecosystem map)
- NDT4, frequent stand-maintaining fires: grassland and dry open forest that burned often and lightly, with surface fires every 4 to 50 years in the Ponderosa Pine and Interior Douglas-fir zones and fires that replace the whole stand rare
- Biogeoclimatic unit
- Ponderosa Pine zone, very dry hot subzone, Okanagan variant (PPxh1)
- Within 1 km, not on the lot
- Fire in 2014 and 2021 (nearest 750 m)
- Surveys read
- 1999 to 2025, the Province's own; on the lot or within 1 km of its line
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.
In NDT4's dry forest and grassland, the guidebook notes that decades of putting fires out have let many Ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir stands fill in with young trees, building up fuel and raising the chance of a crown fire instead of a light surface fire. FireSmart work around a home (thinning, pruning, clearing what burns near the house) answers to exactly that.
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.
Sources (5)
Fire perimeters – historical, BC Wildfire Service (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); BEC Map (biogeoclimatic zones and natural disturbance types), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Biodiversity Guidebook, Forest Practices Code of British Columbia (1995), natural disturbance types (Our summary, checked 2026-10-11); Pest Infestation Polygons (Aerial Overview Survey), Ministry of Forests (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Forest Health Aerial Overview Survey Standards for British Columbia (2019) and the survey's damage ratings, Province of BC (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-12).
FireSmart: what it asks of a home and the ground around it →
§18Noise sources nearby Look into
Railway Street (Highway 97), a highway, borders the lot, about 10 m from the lot line. Penticton Regional Airport (YYF) is about 1.5 km away. No railway mapped within 2 km.
Distances only, not a measured noise level; noise depends on traffic, trains per day and terrain. Measured by us in a straight line from the lot line to the mapped centreline of the track or road, or to the edge of an airport's mapped grounds (to its point where only a point is mapped); a mapped line can sit some metres off the real one.
The record
- Nearest railway (2 km)
- None mapped within 2 km
- Nearest highway or major road (2 km)
- Railway Street (Highway 97), a highway, about 10 m from the lot line, bordering the lot (our reading: within 50 m)
- Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km)
- Penticton Regional Airport (YYF), about 1.5 km from the lot line. Statistics Canada counted about 43,100 takeoffs and landings there in the 12 months to July 2026
- Runway line
- On the extended line of runway 16/34 at Penticton (YYF), about 2 km past its north end and about 100 m off the line (our reading: within 500 m of the line, up to 10 km out), where aircraft arriving and leaving that runway fly lowest. Statistics Canada counted about 43,100 takeoffs and landings there in the 12 months to July 2026.
- Light at night (within 1 km, 2024)
- 31 nW/cm²/sr, like a town centre or a city suburb, as around Nelson, Smithers or Salmon Arm (our reading); brighter than about 68% of BC's homes.
Railways are OpenStreetMap's track in use: main, branch and industrial lines, sidings and yards, and rapid transit; lines mapped as disused or abandoned, and track in tunnels, are left out. "Main line" is how OpenStreetMap's mappers class the line. Highways and major roads are the roads OpenStreetMap classes as motorway (a freeway), trunk (a highway) or primary (a major road). Airports and airstrips are every aerodrome OpenStreetMap maps, public or private, with its type where mapped; heliports aren't included. Airport noise exposure maps (the NEF contours some airports draw) aren't open data, so they aren't used.
Visit at rush hour and at night, ask the seller how often trains pass, and confirm with the local government whether a noise bylaw, a development permit area or an airport zoning regulation covers the lot. For a railway, the railway company or Transport Canada can say how many trains use the line; for an airport, ask the airport about flight paths.
A runway's extended line is our reading of OpenStreetMap's runway, drawn 10 km past each end; aircraft keep close to it as they land and take off, and turn away from it farther out, so it says where they are lowest, not how many pass over the lot or how loud they are. Movement counts are Statistics Canada's, for airports with NAV CANADA services: every takeoff and landing, including training circuits. No open flight track or noise exposure map covers BC; ask the airport about its flight paths and any noise exposure forecast around it.
Light at night is what the VIIRS satellite records looking down at about 1:30 a.m., averaged over the cloud-free nights of 2024, with fires, the northern lights and other passing light left out (the Earth Observation Group's yearly composite); its cells are about 460 m by 300 m in BC. We give the median of the cells within 1 km of the lot's middle, in nanowatts per square centimetre per steradian (rounded to whole numbers), set against the same figure at BC's homes (Statistics Canada's 2021 dwellings on ISED's points) and named after places that read alike (our reading). It is light going up, not how dark the sky looks from the ground: a nearby town's glow on the horizon (Winter sun lists any towns whose lights are in direct line), the moon, a neighbour's yard light and the trees aren't in it, and it says nothing of light at other hours. For stargazing, look at the sky from the lot on a clear, moonless night. This product was made utilizing VIIRS Nighttime Lights data produced by the Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines.
Sources (4)
OpenStreetMap road data as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); OpenStreetMap railways and aerodromes as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Statistics Canada, Table 23-10-0297-01, Aircraft movements by class of operation (August 2025 to July 2026) (Statistics Canada Open Licence); 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).
Railways, highways and airports near a lot: what the distances mean →
Dark skies: what the light-at-night figure means, and what it leaves out →
For reference15
What the records say, with nothing in them to look into.
About this lot 5
§02What you can build (zoning) For reference
Zoned P1 (Public Assembly) by the City of Penticton.
The recordthe lot on the plan
- Zone
- P1 (Public Assembly)
- Zoning bylaw
- City of Penticton Zoning Bylaw No. 2024-22
- Homes allowed
- Congregate housing; security or operator homes of up to 100 m² each (the zone doesn't set a number)
- Main uses
- Schools, hospital and patient care, government service, offices, assembly, cemetery, commercial school, congregate housing, indoor and outdoor amusement and recreation, carnival, outdoor market, public parking, restaurant, shops, major day care, security or operator home
- Smallest lot for a subdivision
- 560 m², 15 m wide
- Lot coverage
- 40%
- Height limit
- 12 m
- Setbacks
- Front 6 m, interior sides 4.5 m, exterior side 6 m, rear 7.5 m
- Heritage conservation area
- None over the lot on the Province's list of local heritage conservation areas (a newly designated one may not be listed yet, and single buildings protected by a heritage bylaw aren't on it)
- Development permit areas
- None over the lot on the City of Penticton's maps
- Fewest homes provincial law requires
- Doesn't set a floor here as far as we can tell: the P1 zone (Public Assembly) isn't limited to houses and duplexes (inferred from its name), and the provincial floor applies only in zones that are.
- Transit-oriented area (provincial minimum)
- Not in one as we read it: the lot isn't within 800 m of a SkyTrain station or 400 m of a bus exchange or West Coast Express station the Province prescribes. Our measure from the regulation's station points (B.C. Reg. 263/2023), checked 2026-10-06.
- Short-term rentals (provincial rule)
- The Province's principal residence requirement applies in Penticton (list in force from June 1, 2026): a short-term rental (under 90 days) is limited to the host's own home plus one secondary suite or garden suite on the same property. Land assessed as a farm (class 9) is exempt. Local bylaws, including the zone's own rules, can be stricter. Hosts anywhere in BC register each unit with the provincial registry.
Density up to 1.2 FAR (s. 13.1.2).
Floor area ratio (FAR) is net floor area divided by lot area (s. 3.2); land given up for a road still counts in it and in coverage (s. 4.6.4).
On one named lot on Carmi Avenue main buildings may reach 45 m (s. 13.1.3).
On one named lot on Railway Street student housing, with 1 parking space per 5 beds (s. 13.1.3).
On lots in the Transitional Neighbourhood Overlay on the zoning map (Schedule B), the owner may develop under this zone's rules or the R4-S zone's, but not mix the two on one lot (s. 13.1.4).
A security or operator home houses the site's caretaker, operator or staff and has at most 100 m² of floor area (ss. 3.2, 8.5); one space of parking (Table 6.6).
Short-term rental (stays of 90 days or less, s. 3.2) isn't a listed use in this zone, and a use a zone doesn't list isn't allowed (s. 1.9.2).
Metal storage containers: two on the first 0.2 ha of lot plus two for each further 0.2 ha, five at most, sited like buildings, off parking, aisles and fire lanes, holding only the business's own goods (s. 4.8.4).
Accessory buildings go up only with or after the main building, stand behind its front face (those of 10 m² or less anywhere behind it), and can't be lived in except as a carriage house where allowed (ss. 4.2.1 to 4.2.4).
Fences and walls up to 1.2 m, or 1.8 m behind the front yard setback and in side and rear yards, or 2.4 m beside a controlled-access highway; nothing over 1.2 m in a corner visibility triangle; no barbed, electric or razor wire (ss. 4.3, 5.4.1). Retaining walls 1.2 m in required yards, 2.4 m elsewhere (s. 5.4.2).
No development within 30 m of a watercourse, or the smaller distance a Qualified Environmental Professional sets under the Riparian Areas Protection Regulation and the official community plan's development permit areas (s. 4.14).
No building inside an existing or future collector or arterial road right-of-way shown in the official community plan; setbacks from those roads are measured from the future road line (s. 4.6).
Nothing, cranes included, may rise above the Horizontal Surface of the federal Penticton Airport Zoning Regulations without federal approval (s. 4.5).
Every zone also allows public parks, utility services, urban agriculture, cultural exhibits and a minor day care (up to 8 children) (s. 4.12).
Our summary of Section 13.1 of City of Penticton Zoning Bylaw No. 2024-22, consolidated to 2026-07-14. Site-specific exceptions listed in the bylaw by legal description can add or change uses for one property.
Zoning is only one layer: development permit areas, the official community plan, the ALR, building and septic permits and provincial housing rules can add limits or allow more. Confirm with the City of Penticton's planning department before you buy or build.
The provincial floor is our summary of the small-scale multi-unit housing rules in the Local Government Act (ss. 481.3 and 481.4) and the Local Government Zoning Bylaw Regulation, checked 2026-10-04. Local governments had to bring their bylaws in line by June 30, 2024, and with the 2025 changes by June 30, 2026, so the zone's own rules usually allow at least these homes already; height, coverage, setbacks and parking still decide how they fit. Whether the lot is inside an urban containment boundary, on community water or sewer, or near a frequent bus stop isn't checked here: confirm with the local government before you buy or build.
Sources (11)
Zoning map, City of Penticton (Open Government Licence – City of Penticton); The P1 zone explained (our summary); City of Penticton Zoning Bylaw No. 2024-22 (bylaw text, summarised in our words); Heritage Conservation Areas of BC, Heritage Branch, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Development permit areas, City of Penticton open data (Open Government Licence – City of Penticton); Local Government Act, ss. 481.3 and 481.4 (small-scale multi-family housing), BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-04); Local Government Zoning Bylaw Regulation, B.C. Reg. 262/2023, BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-04); Small-scale, multi-unit housing, Province of BC (page updated January 20, 2026), and its Provincial Policy Manual (summarised in our words); Local Government Transit-Oriented Areas Regulation, B.C. Reg. 263/2023 (consolidated to September 29, 2026), BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-06); Local Government Act, s. 481.01 (zoning in transit-oriented areas), BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-06); Principal residence requirement, Province of BC (page updated September 21, 2026) (summarised in our words).
Short-term rental rules in BC →
Setbacks: how close to the lot line you can build →
Rezoning: how a zone is changed, and what it takes →
Work done without a permit: what it means for a buyer →
Official records on a property: what's public, and how to look them up →
What a seller must tell you, and what you have to find out yourself →
§03Buildable area For reference
About 2.5 ha (99%) of the lot is clear of steep slope and water setbacks; 1% is steeper than 30%.
- Clear 99%
- Steeper than 30% 1%
The recordbuildable area on the plan
- Clear of steep slope and water setbacks
- 2.5 ha (99%)
- In or within 30 m of mapped water
- 0%
- Steeper than 30%, outside that strip
- 1%
- 15 to 30% slope
- 6%
- On designated floodplain (counted as clear)
- 0%
- Median slope
- 2%
- Main slope direction
- Mostly flat (slopes under 5%); measured by us on NRCan's lidar elevation model (Okanagan survey, 2018; 4 m grid)
- Which way it faces
- 4% south (SE to SW), 3% north (NW to NE), 84% flat; the rest east or west
- Terrain stability (Province's map)
- The Province's terrain stability mapping doesn't cover this lot: it was mapped from air photos, mostly on forest land, so most towns and farmland aren't on it. That says nothing either way about the ground's stability
Estimated by us on Natural Resources Canada's lidar elevation model, from the Okanagan survey (2018): bare ground with buildings and trees taken out, read here on a 4 m grid, one dot on the plan per cell. Retaining walls, road cuts and ditches count as steep ground, and earthworks since the survey aren't shown. Slopes over 30% usually need a geotechnical engineer's report to build on; 15 to 30% is buildable with more work.
Not counted: zoning setbacks from the lot lines, room for a septic field and well (the Septic section screens for a field), easements and rights of way, and the local government's own slope or hazard development permit areas. What you can build names them where the local government publishes its map. A surveyor and the local government confirm where you can build.
Sources (3)
High Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM), lidar DTM from the Okanagan survey (2018), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Freshwater Atlas and designated floodplain maps, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Terrain Stability Mapping (TSM) Detailed Polygons, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
How the buildable share is measured, and what it leaves out →
Archaeological sites: protected whether recorded or not, and how to ask →
§04Floodplain For reference
Not on one of the province's designated floodplain maps.
The recordfloodplain on the plan
- Dams nearby
- None within 1 km on the Province's list of dams
- Dike: Okanagan Flood Control (Coldstream District)
- About 330 m from the lot line, along Okanagan River and Kalamalka Lake; an orphan dike: no local authority is responsible for it; crest surveyed 2020
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.
A dike lowers the chance of flooding on the land behind it, up to the flood it was built for; it doesn't make that land safe from every flood. Dikes can be overtopped or breached, as on the Sumas Prairie in November 2021, and land behind one is often still on the floodplain map, with the local government's flood construction level still applying. Ask the diking authority which flood the dike is built for and its last inspection, and the local government whether the lot is in the area the dike protects.
An orphan dike has no local authority responsible for maintaining it, so nobody may be keeping it to a standard: ask the regional district and the Province's Inspector of Dikes what is known about it.
Sources (4)
Floodplain areas (designated floodplain mapping), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Flood Protection Works: Structural Works, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Dike Maintenance Act, RSBC 1996, c. 95, ss. 1 and 2 (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-07); BC Dams, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§08Water wells nearby For reference
We have no open map of the City of Penticton's water and sewer service: most lots in town are on it (our reading); ask the City of Penticton before planning a well or field. 21 water-supply wells on record within 2 km; typical depth 60 m, typical tested yield 568 L/min. The lot is over mapped aquifer 269 (Ellis Creek), fractured crystalline bedrock, rated low productivity and high vulnerability.
The recordwater wells on the plan
- Community water
- No open map of the City of Penticton's water service: ask the City of Penticton whether the lot is on it
- Wells within 2 km
- 21
- Median depth
- 60 m
- Median tested yield
- 568 L/min (15 wells tested)
- Median water level below ground
- 2 m
- Aquifer 269 under the lot
- Ellis Creek: fractured crystalline bedrock; productivity low, vulnerability high, demand moderate; 104 wells linked, median depth 85.3 m
- 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.
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.
Sources (10)
Groundwater wells (GWELLS), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Aquifer 269: Ellis Creek: ratings and wells (PlaceDossier aquifer page); Ground Water Aquifers, Water Protection and Sustainability Branch, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Long-term Trends in Groundwater Levels in B.C., Environmental Reporting BC (Provincial Groundwater Observation Well Network) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Environmental Monitoring Data System (EnMoDS) results, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: summary table, Health Canada (summarised in our words); Health authority drinking water contacts, Province of BC (linked for reading); Drinking Water Sources – Protection Zones, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Drinking Water Sources – Intakes/Wellheads, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Community Watersheds – Current, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§21Winter sun For reference
On December 21 the hills leave about 6 h of possible direct sun at the lot's middle, against 8 h on open ground at this latitude. (Our estimate from the terrain; trees and buildings not counted.) The ground also allows a view of Okanagan River to the north-northwest (our reading). Mount McLellan is in sight, 16 km to the south (our reading).
The record
- December 21 (shortest day)
- 6 h of possible direct sun; 8 h on open ground
- March 21 (about the same on September 21)
- 10 h 40 min; 12 h on open ground
- June 21 (longest day)
- 14 h 40 min; 16 h on open ground
- Noon sun on December 21
- 17° above level; the hills due south rise to 1°, 15.9 km away
- Highest hills in the winter sun's path
- 8° above level to the south-west, 4.9 km away
- Measured at
- The middle of the lot, ground at about 344 m, from head height
- Solar panel output (south-facing, tilted at the latitude)
- About 1,050 kWh a year for each kW of panels (December about 36), on Natural Resources Canada's 1998-2022 sunshine map; the sun on the panel's face is 3.82 kWh/m² a day over the year, 1.56 in December
- Water the ground lets you see (16 km)
- Okanagan River to the north-northwest, from about 1.5 km away, across about 10° of the horizon; Okanagan Lake to the north-northwest, from about 2 km away, across about 20° of the horizon; Skaha Lake to the south-southeast, from about 4.6 km away, across about 10° of the horizon
- Highest skyline
- 8° above level to the west-northwest, 6.9 km away
- Named peaks in view (150 km)
- Mount McLellan to the south, 16 km away (about 933 m); Mount Hawthorne to the south, 19 km away (about 901 m); Mount Campbell to the east-northeast, 4.5 km away (about 830 m)
- Highest ground in view
- About 1,760 m, to the northeast, 16 km away
- Farthest ground in view
- About 46 km to the south-southeast
- Most relief in one direction
- To the northeast: from about 344 m at the lot up to about 1,760 m, 16 km away
- Town centres in line of sight
- None within 150 km, over the bare ground
- City lights in direct line (150 km)
- In direct line (our reading): the lights of Penticton to the east-southeast, 3.2 km (47 nW/cm²/sr at the brightest in line, like a city's busy streets)
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 24% of the direct sun on December 21 and about 9% 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.
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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); Freshwater Atlas lakes and rivers, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); BC Geographical Names (mountains, peaks and summits), Province of BC (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).
Winter sun: how the hills around a lot are read, and what the hours leave out →
Solar panels: what the yearly figure means, and what tilt and the hills change →
Background for this place 10
§15Earthquake shaking For reference
The building code's design shaking here is 0.099 g peak ground acceleration on firm ground, about 20% of Vancouver's.
| Ground | Peak acceleration | Sa(0.2), low buildings |
|---|---|---|
| Firm ground (C) | 0.099 g | 0.22 g |
| Stiff soil (D) | 0.12 g | 0.30 g |
| Soft soil (E) | 0.13 g | 0.32 g |
The record
- Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years (the code's design level)
- 0.099 g
- Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years
- 0.042 g
- Short-period shaking Sa(0.2), the value the code uses for houses and other low buildings
- 0.22 g
- Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years, on softer ground
- 0.12 g on stiff soil (site class D), 0.13 g on soft soil, about 30% more than 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
- 17 within 50 km and 57 within 100 km
- Largest within 100 km
- M4.5 in August 2002, about 70 km away (NRCan: 56 km NNE of Princeton, BC)
- Nearest of magnitude 3 or more
- M3.5 in January 1987, about 8 km away (NRCan: Southern B.C. Near Penticton, felt)
- Tsunami
- More than 2 km from the ocean shore, so the Province's tsunami notification zones, which are for the coast, don't bear on it
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.
Sources (3)
2020 National Building Code of Canada seismic hazard values (CanadaSHM6), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); National Earthquake Database, Earthquakes Canada, Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Freshwater Atlas coastline, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§16Landslide records For reference
13 landslides on record within 5 km; the nearest, an earth slide, 9 Aug 2020, is 1.7 km from the lot.
The record
- On record on the lot or within 100 m
- 0
- On record within 1 km
- 0
- On record within 5 km
- 13
- Nearest
- 1.7 km from the lot: an earth slide, 9 Aug 2020 (listed under “Creekslide Road landslide”)
- Kinds within 5 km
- earth slide 7, earth fall 3, debris flow 1, mud flow 1, rock fall 1
- With a date
- 11 of 13; the latest 21 Nov 2023 (rock fall, 3.4 km from the lot)
- Recorded causes
- construction 1
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.
Source: Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database, version 14.0 (May 2026), Brideau et al. (CC BY 4.0).
§17Federal contaminated sites For reference
6 federal contaminated sites listed within 2 km; the nearest still open, Penticton 1 reserve (Penticton) (active), is 630 m from the lot.
The record
- Open sites (active or suspected) within 500 m
- 0
- Open sites within 2 km
- 4
- Closed sites within 2 km
- 2
- Penticton 1 reserve (Penticton)
- 630 m from the lot. Active: contamination confirmed, work under way. Found or suspected: PAHs and metals in soil. Initial testing completed. Detailed testing underway. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00007379.
- Penticton 1 reserve (Penticton)
- 1.2 km from the lot. Active: contamination confirmed, work under way; high priority for action. Found or suspected: petroleum hydrocarbons and PAHs in soil. Remedial action plan completed. Remediation / risk management underway. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 05076002.
- Penticton 1 reserve (Penticton)
- 1.2 km from the lot. Suspected: contamination not yet confirmed. Historical review planned. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00025914.
- Penticton 1 reserve (Penticton)
- 1.3 km from the lot. Suspected: contamination not yet confirmed. Found or suspected: petroleum hydrocarbons, PAHs and metals in soil. Historical review completed. Initial testing underway. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00007759.
- Air Navigation Facility: Non Directional Beacon
- 50 m from the lot. Closed: no further action needed. Confirmatory sampling completed. No further action required. Federal custodian: Transport Canada; site 16400001.
- Not listed here
- 1 more within 2 km
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.
Closed means the custodian found no further action needed after testing, cleanup or risk management; it doesn't always mean nothing is left in the ground. The priority class is the federal ranking of its own sites for funding and action, not a measure of risk to neighbours.
Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.
Source: Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (reported for 2025-2026) (Open Government Licence – Canada).
What a contaminated site record means, and what it leaves out →
Old heating oil tanks: finding one, removing it, and who pays for a leak →
§19Services nearby For reference
Penticton Regional Hospital is the nearest hospital, 1.9 km away in a straight line; the nearest fire station is Penticton Fire Department Hall 201 Headquarters, 1.1 km; the nearest grocery store 1.1 km, public elementary school 800 m and transit stop 240 m.
The record
- Nearest hospital
- Penticton Regional Hospital: 1.9 km
- Next nearest hospital
- South Okanagan General Hospital, Oliver: 34 km
- Drive to the nearest hospital
- About 3 minutes (2.6 km by road) to Penticton Regional Hospital
- Nearest emergency department
- Penticton Regional Hospital: 1.9 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Drive to the nearest 24-hour emergency department
- About 3 minutes (2.6 km by road) to Penticton Regional Hospital
- Nearest walk-in clinic
- Community Walk-in Clinic, Penticton: 1.8 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon 08:30 to 15:30, Tue to Fri 09:00 to 15:00. Note that hours are subject to physician availability and patient volume. Statutory holiday hours may be available. Call to confirm. Closed Christmas Day
- Nearest pharmacy
- Pharmasave, Penticton: 1.2 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Sat 09:00 to 17:00
- Nearest late-night or 24-hour pharmacy
- Shoppers Drug Mart, Penticton: 1.3 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Sun 08:00 to 22:00
- 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
- Queens Park Elementary, Penticton: 800 m
- Drive to the nearest public elementary school
- About 2 minutes (1.1 km by road) to Queens Park Elementary, Penticton
- Nearest public secondary school
- Penticton Secondary: 1.2 km
- Drive to the nearest public secondary school
- About 2 minutes (1.8 km by road) to Penticton Secondary
- Nearest public school with early French immersion
- Penticton Secondary: 1.2 km
- Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone)
- Secondaire de Penticton: 1.2 km
- Independent schools within 10 km
- 2
- Nearest licensed group child care
- Children's Universe Montessori Ltd: 700 m
- Licensed group child care within 1 km
- 3: by the ages their operators list, 1 preschool (2 list none); all take part in the fee reduction (CCFRI)
- Licensed group child care within 2 km
- 11: by the ages their operators list, 2 under 36 months, 4 for 30 months to 5 years, 1 preschool and 2 school age (4 list none); all take part in the fee reduction (CCFRI)
- Licensed family child care within about 2 km
- 1, in the providers' homes
- Nearest grocery store
- Safeway: 1.1 km
- Drive to the nearest grocery store
- About 2 minutes (1.4 km by road) to Quality Greens
- Grocery stores within 10 km
- 8
- Nearest fire station
- Penticton Fire Department Hall 201 Headquarters: 1.1 km, on the Province's list
- Nearest fire hydrant
- On the lot, on the City of Penticton's Hydrants (Non-Seasonal) map (read 2026-10-20); 7 within 150 m and 22 within 300 m of the lot line
- Nearest ambulance station
- Ambulance station 329, Penticton: 1 km
- Nearest police detachment or station
- Summerland RCMP: 14 km
- Nearest community policing office
- Penticton Community Policing: 1.2 km
- Nearest transfer station or landfill
- Campbell Mountain Landfill: 5.5 km
- Nearest post office
- Penticton Plaza: 1.1 km
- Postal area
- V2A: an urban postal area: homes mostly get mail at the door or a community mailbox (our reading).
- Nearest gas station
- Chevron: 500 m
- Nearest Service BC office
- Service BC - Penticton: 1.2 km
- Nearest airport with screened airline flights
- Penticton airport (YYF): 2.9 km
- Nearest airport with flights to the US or abroad
- Kelowna airport (YLW): 54 km
- Vancouver International Airport (YVR), BC's main airport for flights abroad
- 262 km
- Nearest transit stop
- Duncan & Hwy 97 (OK College): 240 m, routes 2, 4, 15, 30 and 40; 34 departures on a weekday, 29 on Saturday, none on Sunday (BC Transit's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)
- Transit stops within 500 m
- 9
- Nearest park or protected area
- Skaha Bluffs Park, a provincial park: 4.4 km from the lot line
- Nearest recreation site or trail
- Carmi, on Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list: 11 km from the lot line
Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us, except where a fact says by road.
Drive times are our reading: the quickest way over OpenStreetMap's roads at a typical speed for each kind of road (from 100 km/h on a freeway down to 20 on a track or a lane, and at most 40 on gravel), from the mapped road nearest the lot's middle. They count no traffic, weather, winter conditions, road closures or ferries, and a road missing from the map, or a gate, changes them: drive it before you rely on it. Here that road is about 100 m from the lot's middle.
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 20, 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.
The City of Penticton's map shows the year-round hydrants on its water system; seasonal irrigation hydrants aren't counted. Distances are straight lines to the lot line, measured by us.
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 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.
Flights to the US or abroad: airports where Statistics Canada counted at least 5,000 transborder and other international passengers in 2025. Some are seasonal or charter flights; check with the airlines.
Confirm services with the local government.
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Hospitals in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Emergency Rooms in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Walk-in Clinics in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); BC Schools K-12, Ministry of Education and Child Care (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Child Care Map Data, Child Care Programs and Services (listed 2026-10-20) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Hydrants (Non-Seasonal), City of Penticton open data (read 2026-10-20) (City of Penticton Open Government Licence); First Responders (fire halls, ambulance stations and police), GeoBC (updated 2026-09-11) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Pharmacies in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Service BC Office Locations, Service BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Grocery stores, transfer stations, landfills, recycling depots, post offices, gas stations and fire stations not on the Province's list: OpenStreetMap as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence (ODbL)); Drive times: our reading of OpenStreetMap's roads as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence (ODbL)); BC Transit schedules (GTFS), read 2026-10-12 (BC Transit Open Data Terms of Use); BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas, BC Parks and GeoBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Recreation Sites (Subset), Recreation Sites and Trails BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Forward sortation area boundary file, 2021 Census, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence); CATSA Aerodrome Designation Regulations (SOR/2002-180), Schedule, as modified 2026-09-28 (Reproduced under the Reproduction of Federal Law Order); OurAirports (airport points and scheduled service), as of 2026-10-15 (Public domain); Statistics Canada, Table 23-10-0253-01, Air passenger traffic at Canadian airports, 2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence).
How school catchments work in BC →
Home insurance: what an insurer asks about the hall, the hydrant, the stove and the wiring →
Transit: what the schedules count, and what they leave out →
Child care: what the Province's list counts, and the fee programs →
§20Internet For reference
Within about 1 km of the lot, ISED's broadband data records 50/10 Mbps or faster over a wired line and over fixed wireless. LTE mobile coverage is recorded there too.
The record
- Best speed recorded within about 1 km
- 50/10 Mbps or faster
- Over a wired line (cable, fibre or DSL)
- 50/10 Mbps or faster
- Over fixed wireless
- 50/10 Mbps or faster
- LTE mobile within about 1 km
- recorded
- Nearest place with 50/10 Mbps or faster
- within about 1 km (about 100 m)
- 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), Rogers, Freedom Mobile (ISED, reported, not a guarantee at the lot)
- Nearest FM radio transmitter
- CFUZ-FM, 92.9 MHz low-power FM, 50 W, at Penticton, about 900 m to the south-east
- Nearest TV transmitter
- CHKL-DT-1|CHBC-DT-1-MX, TV channel 30 (digital), 3 kW, at Penticton, about 19 km to the north; the hills within 16 km don't block the line to it (our reading, terrain only)
- Bell satellite TV dish sightline
- 82° W sits 23° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 17°; 91.1° W sits 27° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 22° (terrain only; our reading)
- Shaw Direct satellite TV dish sightline
- 107.3° W sits 32° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 31°; 111.1° W sits 33° up to the south, clear of the hills by 32° (terrain only; our reading)
- Starlink: sky hidden by the hills
- The hills stay under 20° all round, so terrain shouldn't block it (trees and buildings not counted; 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.
Sources (6)
National Broadband Data (May 2026), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Pseudo-Household Demographic Distribution (2021), ISED (Open Government Licence – Canada); National Broadband Data, mobile providers by hexagon (2026-05-05), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Spectrum Management System Authorization Data Extract: Broadcast Service (2026-10-05), ISED (Open Government Licence – Canada); Geostationary fleet and orbital slots, Telesat (facts from the page, read 2026-10-13); Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada).
What the internet figures mean, and what to ask a provider →
§23Climate For reference
At Penticton Airport, 2.9 km from the lot, January averages −0.8 °C and July 21.4 °C, with 62 cm of snow and 344 mm of rain and snow a year (1991-2020 normals, based on fewer years than the WMO standard). The frost-free season averages 160 days, from April 30 to October 8. Summer days pass 30 °C on 29 days a year at the station*. The lot is at about the same elevation as the station.
The record
- Nearest climate station
- Penticton Airport, 2.9 km away
- Station elevation
- 344 m
- Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)
- 344 m
- January mean temperature (1991-2020)
- −0.8 °C*
- July mean temperature (1991-2020)
- 21.4 °C*
- Yearly precipitation, rain and snow as water (1991-2020)
- 344 mm*
- Yearly snowfall (1991-2020)
- 62 cm*
- Frost-free period (1991-2020)
- 160 days a year*
- Average last spring frost (1991-2020)
- April 30*
- Average first fall frost (1991-2020)
- October 8*
- Days with snow on the ground, 1 cm or more (1991-2020)
- 25 days a year, 10 days of them in January*
- Lowest temperature recorded, 1991-2020
- −21.6 °C (2008)
- Days a year over 30 °C (1991-2020)
- 29 days, 4 days of them over 35 °C*
- Highest temperature recorded, 1991-2020
- 38.6 °C (1998)
- Wettest day recorded, 1991-2020
- 45.6 mm of rain and melted snow, August 9, 2008
- Most snow in a day recorded, 1991-2020
- 25 cm, January 5, 2015
- Deepest snow on the ground recorded, 1991-2020
- 33 cm, December 31, 2017
- Strongest gust recorded, 1991-2020
- 109 km/h, July 10, 2008; gusts of 90 km/h or more on under half a day a year*
- Thunderstorm days a year (1991-2020)
- 14 days; hail on 0.7 days
- Heating degree days, below 18 °C (1991-2020)
- 3,302 a year*
- Growing degree days, above 5 °C (1991-2020)
- 2,296 a year; 1,264 above 10 °C*
- Period
- 1991-2020
- Plant hardiness zone (regional)
- 7a
- By the 2050s, days a year over 30 °C (model projection, SSP2-4.5)
- About 22 more days over 30 °C a year than in the same models' 1971-2000
- By the 2050s, longest frost-free run (model projection, SSP2-4.5)
- A longest frost-free run about 40 days longer than in the same models' 1971-2000
- By the 2050s, winter precipitation falling as snow (model projection, SSP2-4.5)
- About 16 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 8 days a year; 0.19 flashes per km² a year, more than at 3 in 4 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.
The hardiness zone is from Natural Resources Canada's 2025 map, read by us on a grid of about 2 to 3 km: near a zone's edge, or well above or below the valley around it, the lot may fall in the next zone. It is a guide to which plants survive the winter, not a frost date.
* Based on fewer years than the WMO standard: these figures rest on at least 25, 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 1991-2020. Each is one event, not what to expect in a year, and the lot can get more or less than the station.
A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below or above a base, added up over the year. Heating degree days below 18 °C follow how much a home needs heating: a place with 5,000 needs roughly half again the heat of one with 3,300, for the same house. Growing degree days above 5 °C (10 °C for warm-season crops such as corn and grapes) follow how much warmth plants get to grow.
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 38 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range 32 to 62 across the models), against about 16 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 200 days (range 180 to 230), against about 160; and about 52% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 38% to 56%), against about 68%. The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figure; it isn't a range of the change.
Frost dates are averages: in about half of years the last spring frost comes later than the date shown, and frost pockets in hollows and valley bottoms get it later still.
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.
Recent years have run warmer than the 1991-2020 averages in much of BC. Ask neighbours or the local government about snow on the road and who clears it.
Sources (6)
Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Plant hardiness zones of Canada (2025 map), 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); Canadian Lightning Detection Network cloud-to-ground flashes (CanCPLDv1), Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Penticton: climate, land and census facts (PlaceDossier area page).
What a plant hardiness zone means →
Climate projections for the 2050s: what the models say, and what they can't →
§24Radon For reference
Radon isn't mapped lot by lot. 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 record
- Health region (regional figure, not this lot)
- Okanagan
- Homes tested here
- 109
- At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline)
- 19 (17%)
- At or above 600 Bq/m³
- 3
- 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.
Sources (5)
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); Radon guideline, Health Canada (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-02); Testing your home for radon, Health Canada (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-02); Radon in real estate, Health Canada (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-02).
§25Property tax For reference
Penticton's 2026 residential rate is $5.80 per $1,000 of assessed value, below the middle of BC's 160 municipalities ($6.24): about $5,798 a year on a $1,000,000 home at 2026 rates, before the home owner grant. Confirm with the municipality.
- Municipal $3.79
- Regional district $0.28
- Regional hospital district $0.23
- School (set by the Province) $1.47
- Other $0.04
- Middle of BC's municipalities $6.24
On $500,000: about $2,899 a year; on $1,000,000: about $5,798, at 2026 rates, before the home owner grant.
The record
- Local government
- Penticton
- Residential rate, 2026
- 5.7979 per $1,000
- Municipal
- 3.7886 per $1,000
- Regional district
- 0.2757 per $1,000
- Regional hospital district
- 0.2252 per $1,000
- School (set by the Province)
- 1.4701 per $1,000
- Other
- 0.0383 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.
Sources: City of Penticton's 2026 tax rates bylaw, as compiled by the Province (Local Government Statistics Schedule 702, 2026) (the rates only: facts set in public bylaws, not open data); Home owner grant, Province of BC (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-04).
How property tax works in BC, and what else goes on the bill →
The home owner grant: who gets it, how much, and applying each year →
Property transfer tax: what you pay when you buy, and the exemptions →
§26Speculation and vacancy tax For reference
Penticton is in the Province's speculation and vacancy tax area. An owner of a home here declares each year by March 31 and owes the tax unless an exemption applies: the main ones are living in it as your principal residence, or renting it to a tenant for at least six months of the year. For 2026 it is 1% of the assessed value a year for Canadian citizens and permanent residents, 3% for foreign owners and untaxed worldwide earners (4% from 2027).
The record
- Place
- Penticton
- In the taxable area
- Yes
- Rate, 2026
- 1% of the assessed value for Canadian citizens and permanent residents, 3% for foreign owners and untaxed worldwide earners (4% from 2027)
- Declare by
- March 31 each year, for the year before
The tax applies to property BC Assessment classes as residential; exemptions also cover a newly bought home in its first year, a home being built or rebuilt, a home reached only by water and over 100 m from a road, and a property assessed at $150,000 or less, among others. Every owner on title declares separately, each year, even when exempt. Confirm a given property with the Province's speculation and vacancy tax office.
Reserve and treaty lands, and islands reached only by air or water (Vancouver Island aside), are outside the taxable areas.
Sources: Taxable areas for the speculation and vacancy tax, Province of BC (page updated December 8, 2025) (summarised in our words); Speculation and vacancy tax rates and exemptions, Province of BC (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-04).
Where the speculation and vacancy tax applies, and who pays →
§27Crime For reference
The Penticton RCMP (municipal) reported a crime severity index of 145 in 2025, above BC's 92; up 7% since 2015 (BC unchanged).
- Penticton 145
- BC 92
The record
- Police service
- The Penticton RCMP (municipal)
- Crime severity index, 2025
- 145 (BC 92)
- Violent / non-violent index
- 145 / 146 (BC 98 / 91)
- Crime severity index, 2015
- 136 (BC 93)
- Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025
- 652 (BC 281)
- Theft of a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025
- 317 (BC 138)
- Theft from a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025
- 695 (BC 441)
- Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025
- 2,356 (BC 1,531)
- All Criminal Code offences (not traffic), per 100,000 people, 2025
- 13,595 (BC 6,943)
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: where a council acted on one, its order or a note on the title can show it. Ask the seller for the Property Disclosure Statement, and your lawyer for the title search.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0063-01, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in British Columbia (Statistics Canada Open Licence); Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0184-01, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in British Columbia (Statistics Canada Open Licence).
What police-reported crime figures say about a place, and what isn't public →
Was this house a grow op? What the records show, and what the seller must say →
Nothing found6
Checked, and nothing on the record here.
§01Road access Nothing found
A mapped public road runs along or through the parcel: Timmins Street (local road, paved), Conklin Avenue (local road, paved), Railway Street (highway, paved) and 2 more.
The recordroads on the plan
- Roads along the parcel
- Timmins Street (local road, paved); Conklin Avenue (local road, paved); Railway Street (highway, paved); Oakville Street (local road, paved); an unnamed lane or service road; and 2 more
- Nearest public road
- Along the parcel
- Who maintains the road
- Highway H97 and Highway H97R are on the Ministry of Transportation's road inventory: provincial roads that its maintenance contractor for service area 8 (Okanagan-Shuswap district) maintains, snow clearing included. How soon a road is cleared after a storm depends on the winter class the Ministry gives it; its district office can say which. Other roads along the lot, if any, aren't on the inventory.
- Snow clearing priority
- Any street along the lot that isn't the Province's is the City of Penticton's to clear in winter, and the City of Penticton publishes no snow-clearing priority map we can use. Ask the City of Penticton which priority that street has, and how soon after a snowfall it is usually cleared.
Worked out by us from OpenStreetMap road lines: a road whose centreline is within 25 m of the lot line is counted as running along it. The map isn't proof of legal access: a road can be private, unbuilt or not maintained in winter, and reaching a lot across someone else's land needs a registered easement. The title search and the local government (or the Ministry of Transportation outside towns) confirm both.
Sources: OpenStreetMap road data as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Ministry of Transportation Road Features Inventory and District Boundaries, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§06Evacuation orders and alerts Nothing found
No evacuation order or alert has covered this lot since the Province's record began in April 2017.
The record
- Events with an order over the lot since April 2017
- 0
- Events with only an alert
- 0
The Province's record of lifted orders and alerts starts in April 2017: evacuations before then aren't in it, and no record doesn't mean nothing happened. Each area is drawn by the local government or First Nation that issued it; we check whether it covers any part of the lot. Where the record's own dates disagree (an order dated before the event began), only the month and year are given. Confirm with the local government.
Sources: Historical Orders and Alerts, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Evacuation Orders and Alerts, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§07Water and streamside setbacks Nothing found
No mapped stream, lake, river, wetland or shoreline within 30 m of the parcel.
The recordwater and 30 m strip on the plan
- Within 30 m
- None mapped
- On the parcel
- None mapped
The Freshwater Atlas is mapped at 1:20,000: small, seasonal or ditched streams can be missing. Look for water on the ground and ask the local government whether it has finer mapping.
Source: Freshwater Atlas (streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, coastline), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§10Farmland reserve (ALR) Nothing found
Not in the Agricultural Land Reserve, nor within 250 m of it.
The record
- In the ALR
- No
- Nearest ALR land
- None within 250 m
Source: Agricultural Land Reserve polygons, Agricultural Land Commission (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§11Mineral and placer titles Nothing found
No mineral or placer titles on or within 1 km of the parcel.
The record
- Over the parcel
- None
- Within 1 km
- None
- Mineral reserves over the lot
- None on the Province's map: new titles can be registered here as anywhere else
Titles change often; this is the record when checked. Mineral Titles Online shows the current map.
Sources: Mineral, placer and coal tenures, Mineral Titles Branch (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Mineral Reserve Sites, Mineral Titles Branch, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
§12What's planned nearby Nothing found
No logging, Crown land applications or heavy Crown land uses on record within 1 km. OpenStreetMap draws An unnamed footpath, a footpath on OpenStreetMap, across the lot for about 150 m (our reading: a path on the map isn't a right to cross, so ask the seller who uses it). Beside the lot: federal land on the south side. No major project in assessment or approved within 10 km on the Environmental Assessment Office's register.
The record
- Cutblocks applied for (1 km)
- 0
- Approved, not yet logged (1 km)
- 0
- Logged in the last 5 years (1 km)
- 0
- Trails on the Province's maps (1 km)
- An unnamed footpath (a footpath on OpenStreetMap): drawn across the lot for about 150 m (our reading)
- Crown land applications (1 km)
- None
- Quarry, industry, energy or tower tenures (500 m)
- None
- Along the lot line
- Federal land along about 40% of the lot line (the south side); private land along about 40% of the lot line (the north side); a road parcel along about 10% of the lot line (the east side); no parcel mapped along about 10% of the lot line (the west side), most often a road allowance, water or Crown land the parcel map doesn't draw (our reading)
- Rights of way and easements drawn on the lot
- None drawn on ParcelMap BC; a charge with no plan can still be on the title, so ask for it
- Crown land reserves and notations (1 km)
- Notation of interest for public recreation, file 3402718: no expiry date, 400 m from the lot line
- Local development applications
- Not covered here: we read applications only where the local government publishes them as open data (the CSRD, the City of Surrey, the City of Abbotsford and the District of Squamish). Ask the City of Penticton what's in progress on and near the lot
- Reserve land (500 m)
- The Penticton 1 reserve (Penticton), 410 m from the lot line
- Nearest power line (200 m)
- None mapped within 200 m
- Oil and gas pipelines (200 m)
- None within 200 m on the BC Energy Regulator's permit map
- Permitted discharges to air, water and land (2 km)
- A concrete plant, about 290 m from the lot line, registered under the Code of Practice for Concrete and Concrete Products (authorization 100482, 2008); A sewage treatment or discharge, about 570 m from the lot line, may discharge to water or land (effluent), under an operational certificate (authorization 12212, 1995); A concrete plant, about 1,900 m from the lot line (position given only roughly, to about a kilometre), may discharge to air and water or land (effluent), under a permit (authorization 3708, 1982)
- Major projects in assessment (10 km)
- None
- Major projects approved (10 km)
- None
- Reviewed, no assessment needed (10 km)
- None
- Closed or not reviewable (10 km)
- None
Cutblocks are from the province's forest tenure records, which cover Crown forest licences and woodlots, not logging on private land. Crown land applications are on the province's tenure register; the Applications, Comments and Reasons for Decision site takes public comments on them. Mineral and placer claims are in their own section above.
OpenStreetMap's paths are mapped by volunteers: town walkways and greenways, footpaths and cycle paths the Province's maps don't hold, with sidewalks left out; only a path across the lot or along its line is listed. The Province's two maps draw trails on Crown land: one drawn across a titled lot is most often a mapping offset or a line that predates the title, and a trail on the map isn't a right to cross private land. A right of way on title is in the title search; ask the seller about people using a trail along or across the lot (our reading). Our summary, read 2026-10-13.
Who owns the land beside the lot is ParcelMap BC's owner type for each parcel that shares the lot line (measured by us along the line); the open parcel map names no owners. Crown land beside a lot, with a title or without, can be logged, leased, grazed or roaded, and a view or trail across it isn't yours to keep; ask the natural resource district or FrontCounter BC. Land owned by the local government is often a park, a road allowance or a utility lot; ask the local government what it's for.
The Province can set Crown land aside for a purpose, such as a gravel source, a road, a communication site, recreation or a treaty. Cabinet can reserve it by order in council (Land Act s. 15); the minister can withdraw it from disposition for a time, a map reserve (s. 16), or designate it for one use, a designated use area, which withdraws it from any use that doesn't fit (s. 17). A notation of interest isn't a reserve: it marks another agency's interest, so that agency is asked before the Province decides an application there (our reading). A reserve gives no date for when its purpose is used, if ever. Our summary of the Land Act, read 2026-10-12.
Land use on reserve land is decided by the First Nation, under its own land code or laws or its bylaws under the Indian Act, not by the local government's zoning bylaw, so the local government's zoning and development applications don't say what may be built there. Ask Penticton's lands office what's planned there. Our summary, checked 2026-10-07.
Major projects are those large enough to need a provincial environmental assessment: mines, power plants, pipelines, transmission lines, highways, ports, dams and resorts, among others. Each is on the Environmental Assessment Office's register at a single point, the location it gives for the project. A mine, pipeline, transmission line or road can reach well past that point, so a project listed 8 km away can still pass the lot, and one placed beyond 10 km isn't listed here. Each project's page on the EAO's site has its maps, documents and comment periods; distances are measured by us from the lot line to the point. Smaller projects (subdivisions, smaller pits and quarries, and other works under the assessment thresholds) aren't on this register.
Power lines are from two maps read together: the Province's map of high-voltage transmission lines (BC Hydro's, private and independent producers' lines), which leaves voltages out, and OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map lines and record the voltage where it's known. Smaller distribution lines along streets aren't included. Distances are measured by us from the lot line to the mapped line, which can sit some metres off the real one. The line's right of way, and what it lets the line's owner do on the land, is set by the easement on title, which is the definitive record: check it in the title search, and ask BC Hydro (or the line's owner) about clearances for building and trees.
Permitted discharges are from the Province's list of active waste discharge authorizations under the Environmental Management Act: permits, approvals and operational certificates, and sites registered under its regulations and codes of practice (sewage, fuel storage, vehicle recycling, concrete, asphalt, composting and others). Each is one point the Province gives for the site, which can be a plant's office or an outfall rather than the ground worked; distances are measured by us from the lot line to that point. Metro Vancouver issues its own air quality permits, which aren't on this list, and the Province's Site Registry of contaminated sites charges for searches and isn't shown here.
An authorization sets what may be discharged, how much and on what conditions; it doesn't mean the site is out of compliance. The Province's Authorization Management System search shows each authorization's documents by its number. Odour, dust and noise are often for the local government too: ask the regional district or city, and the Province's environmental protection office about the authorization.
Sources (14)
Forest tenure cutblock polygons (FTA 4.0), Ministry of Forests (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); TANTALIS Crown tenures, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Environmental Assessment Office project points (EPIC), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); OpenStreetMap paths as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Forest and Range Practices Act ss. 56 to 58 and Heritage Conservation Act s. 12.1, BC Laws; Practice requirements for established recreation sites, trails and interpretive forest sites, Province of BC (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-13); ParcelMap BC parcel fabric (parcel class and owner type), Land Title and Survey Authority of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); TANTALIS Crown Land Reserves and Notations, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Land Act, RSBC 1996, c. 245, ss. 10, 15, 16 and 17 (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-12); Indian Reserves and Band Names – Administrative Boundaries, Province of BC (from Natural Resources Canada's Canada Lands Survey System) (Open Government Licence – Canada); BC Transmission Lines (BC Hydro, private and independent power producers' lines), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); OpenStreetMap power lines as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Oil and Gas Pipeline Segment Permits, BC Energy Regulator (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Waste Discharge Authorizations – All Authorizations, Province of BC (file of 2026-07-22) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Authorization Management System public search, Province of BC (linked for the authorization's documents, read 2026-10-11).
Power lines near a lot: rights of way, building, trees and health →
Getting power to a lot: who connects it and who pays →
Permitted discharges near a lot: what an authorization allows →
Logging and Crown land use planned near a lot →
Crown land next door: what it means, and whether you can buy it →
Not covered here1
What these public records can't answer for this lot.
§22Soil for farming Not covered here
The province's farm soil capability maps don't cover this lot; they cover the valleys and plateaus surveyed for farming, not most forest, mountain or northern land.
The record
- Capability class
- Not mapped here
If farming matters to you here, a professional agrologist (P.Ag.) can assess the soil on site.
Source: Agriculture Capability mapping, Province of BC (1960s to 1990s maps, digitised 2015) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
What the soil capability classes mean, and what they leave out →
§28Questions to ask
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The report The Conservation Data Centre records 1 species or ecosystem at risk on this parcel: Sandhill Skipper (Red-listed). Wildlife and habitat
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The report No recorded fire on the parcel; 6 recorded within 2 km, most recently in 2021. Wildfire history
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The report Railway Street (Highway 97), a highway, borders the lot, about 10 m from the lot line. Noise sources nearby
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Worth confirming
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The report Zone: P1 (Public Assembly). What you can build (zoning)
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The report We have no open map of the City of Penticton's water and sewer service, but most lots in town are on it (our reading). Water wells nearby
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The report Within about 1 km of the lot, ISED's broadband data records 50/10 Mbps or faster over a wired line and over fixed wireless. Internet
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Official public registers: find someone near you, or check that the one you've found is licensed. No one pays to be listed.
- Lawyer · title search, conveyancing, easements and covenants
Law Society of BC lawyer directory - Notary · conveyancing and title search
Society of Notaries Public of BC roll of notaries - Land surveyor · lot lines, building locations, a survey certificate
Association of BC Land Surveyors member directory - Well driller or pump installer · a new well, a flow test, pump work
BC register of well drillers and well pump installers - Septic practitioner · septic inspection, design and installation
ASTTBC registrant directory (pick ROWP under Sub Class) - Agrologist · soil, farm capability and ALR applications
BC Institute of Agrologists directory of registrants
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§29The parcel record
- Parcel type
- Subdivision
- Owner type
- Federal
- Plan
- KAP841
- Mapped area
- 2.51 ha (6.19 acres)
Mapped area is from ParcelMap BC and can differ from the surveyed area on title. Owner names, assessed values and title charges aren't public data; a title search at the Land Title and Survey Authority shows easements, covenants and liens.
Source: ParcelMap BC parcel fabric (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), updated 2026-06-18.
§30Names on the map
11 official place names within 5 km of the lot; the nearest community is West Bench.
The names (11)
- Shingle Creek, 1.1 km south · official since 1936
- Ellis Creek, 1.4 km south · official since 1936
- S.S. Naramata, park, 1.6 km northwest · official since 2018
- West Bench, locality, 1.6 km northwest · official since 1977
- Penticton Creek, 1.9 km northeast · official since 1936
- Penticton, municipality, 3.1 km west · official since 2023
- Penticton 2, reserve, 3.4 km east · official since 1988
- Mount Munson, mountain, 3.7 km northeast · official since 1979
- Madeline Lake, 4 km northwest · official since 1977
- Skaha Creek, 4.6 km south · official since 1954
- Randolph Creek, 4.7 km northeast · official since 1955
Old newspapers mentioning West Bench: UBC's BC Historical Newspapers.
Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database, measured by us from each name's point to the lot's middle; a creek's or a range's point is one spot on it. Many BC names have origin notes (who or what a name recalls, when it was adopted) on BC Geographical Names: each linked name opens its page there. Old newspapers on UBC's BC Historical Newspapers can be searched for the nearest community; its terms allow research or private study.
Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database (Natural Resources Canada), via the GeoNames API (OGL-Canada).
Land for sale nearby
The 5 nearest listings on AcreScout within 25 km, nearest first.
| Listing | Asking price | Size | Per acre | From the lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 303 Nanaimo Avenue WPenticton, listed 175 days ago | $649,900 | 0.17 acres | – | 1.1 km |
| 598 Main StreetPenticton, listed 46 days ago | $449,000 | 0.09 acres | – | 1.1 km |
| 582 Main StreetPenticton, listed 46 days ago | $399,000 | 0.09 acres | – | 1.1 km |
| 515 Heales AvenuePenticton, listed 109 days ago | $459,900 | 0.08 acres | – | 1.2 km |
| 313 Van Horne StreetPenticton, listed 17 days ago | $488,000 | 0.09 acres | – | 1.4 km |
Distances are straight lines from the lot's middle to the listing's pin. Where AcreScout places a listing only roughly, no distance is given, only the place it's near. Per acre is left out under about an acre. Asking prices are what sellers ask, not what land sells for.
Listings: AcreScout (our sister site), active listings as of 2026-10-20. Asking prices set by the sellers; not a valuation.
Checked 2026-10-20. General information from public records, not an inspection, survey, appraisal or legal advice. Confirm with the local government and a professional before you buy or build.