315 Hwy 97, 100 Mile House

Clear of steep slope and water setbacks

1,760 m² (95%)

In or within 30 m of mapped water

0%

Steeper than 30%, outside that strip

5%

15 to 30% slope

4%

On designated floodplain (counted as clear)

0%

Median slope

3%

Main slope direction

Mostly flat (slopes under 5%); measured by us on NRCan's lidar elevation model (VRI 100 Mile House survey, 2019; 2 m grid)

Which way it faces

0% south (SE to SW), 10% north (NW to NE), 69% 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 VRI 100 Mile House survey (2019): bare ground with buildings and trees taken out, read here on a 2 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.

December 21 (shortest day)

6 h 30 min of possible direct sun; 7 h 40 min on open ground

March 21 (about the same on September 21)

11 h 50 min; 12 h on open ground

June 21 (longest day)

16 h; 16 h 30 min on open ground

Noon sun on December 21

15° above level; the hills due south rise to 4°, 3.6 km away

Highest hills in the winter sun's path

5° above level to the south, 3.5 km away

Measured at

The middle of the lot, ground at about 928 m, from head height

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

About 980 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 3.58 kWh/m² a day over the year, 1.55 in December

Water the ground lets you see (16 km)

None on the Freshwater Atlas or the sea, over the bare ground

Highest skyline

7° above level to the east-southeast, 1.5 km away

Named peaks in view (150 km)

Mount Timothy to the north, 29 km away (about 1,646 m); Windy Mountain to the east, 52 km away (about 1,946 m)

Highest ground in view

About 1,946 m: Windy Mountain, to the east, 52 km away

Farthest ground in view

About 52 km to the east: Windy Mountain

Most relief in one direction

To the north: from about 922 m, 0.6 km away, up to about 1,626 m, 29 km away

Town centres in line of sight

None within 150 km, over the bare ground

City lights in direct line (150 km)

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

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

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

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

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

The panel output is our reading of Natural Resources Canada's figures: its map gives the sun reaching a south-facing panel tilted at the latitude, averaged over 1998-2022 on a grid of about 10 km, and we turn it into kWh for each kW of panels at the performance ratio its Photovoltaic Potential maps use (0.75: losses in heat, wiring, the inverter and dirt). The map is for an open sky: the hills around the lot, trees, buildings and snow on the panels aren't counted. The hills around this lot take about 15% of the direct sun on December 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.

Capability class (1 best, 7 none)

Class 4: about 70% of the lot; Class 3: about 30% of the lot

What limits it

slope

Map scale

1:50,000: describes the area, not the field

Mapped

1960s to 1990s (digitised 2015)

These classes rate how well the land suits ordinary field crops, from the soil and climate as surveyed decades ago. Drainage, irrigation or fill since then can change the real answer, and a map at this scale can miss a good or poor field. The Agricultural Land Commission weighs these classes when it decides applications.

If farming matters to you here, a professional agrologist (P.Ag.) can assess the soil on site.

Dam: 100 Mile House Marsh Dam

About 670 m from the lot line; earthfill, 0.7 m high; the Dam Safety Regulation applies in full; failure consequence class Low

Dam: Exeter Lake Dam

About 740 m from the lot line; earthfill, 2.3 m high; the Dam Safety Regulation applies in full; failure consequence class Significant

Dikes nearby

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

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

Fires on the parcel

0

Fires within 2 km

7

Within 2 km in the last 30 years

0

Most recent nearby

1941 (55 ha, lightning)

Largest nearby

1938 (2,827 ha, caused by people)

Causes on record within 2 km

6 caused by people, 1 lightning

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

Interior Douglas-fir zone, dry cool subzone, Fraser variant (IDFdk3)

Within 1 km, not on the lot

Fire in 2013 (nearest 940 m); western spruce budworm in 2002 to 2009 (nearest 440 m); mountain pine beetle in 2003 to 2008 (nearest 120 m)

Surveys read

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

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

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

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.

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

0.085 g

Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years

0.032 g

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

0.19 g

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

0.11 g on stiff soil (site class D), 0.11 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

2 within 50 km and 24 within 100 km

Largest within 100 km

M3.4 in December 2015, about 95 km away (NRCan: 51 km WNW of Kamloops, BC)

Nearest of magnitude 3 or more

M3.4 in March 2022, about 75 km away (NRCan: 76 km NE of 100 Mile House, BC)

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.

On record on the lot or within 100 m

0

On record within 1 km

1

On record within 5 km

5

Nearest

470 m from the lot: an earth slide, date not recorded

Kinds within 5 km

earth slide 5

With a date

none of the 5

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

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

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

Health region (regional figure, not this lot)

Thompson Cariboo Shuswap

Homes tested here

109

At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline)

7 (6.4%)

At or above 600 Bq/m³

None

Across BC

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

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

The survey tested about a hundred volunteer homes per health region, with one long-term test each. That gives a rough regional picture: it isn't a map, and a region where few or none tested high can still have homes above the guideline. The survey grouped homes by the 2007 health regions; we place the lot by today's boundaries for the same areas.

Open sites (active or suspected) within 500 m

0

Open sites within 2 km

1

Closed sites within 2 km

0

100 Mile House RCMP Detachment

790 m from the lot. Suspected: contamination not yet confirmed. Historical review completed. Initial testing underway. Federal custodian: Royal Canadian Mounted Police; site 00028137.

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.

At-risk species or ecosystems on the parcel

None recorded

Within 500 m

River Jewelwing (Blue-listed)

Wide-ranging species mapped over it

American Badger (Red-listed)

Secured records in the wider area

No

Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Proposed Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Proposed ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Federal critical habitat over the lot

American Badger jeffersonii subspecies (Western population) (safe movement; a wide area, up to 400,990 ha)

Sensitive ecosystems mapped on the lot

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

Invasive plants recorded on the lot

None on the Province's list

Invasive plants recorded within 100 m

None on the Province's list

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

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

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

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

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

Community water

No open map of the District of 100 Mile House's water service: ask the District of 100 Mile House whether the lot is on it

Wells within 2 km

27

Median depth

52 m

Median tested yield

46 L/min (18 wells tested)

Median water level below ground

13 m

Aquifer 124 under the lot

Fraser Plateau Lava: flat-lying to gently-dipping volcanic bedrock; productivity moderate, vulnerability moderate, demand low; 276 wells linked, median depth 30.5 m

Aquifer 128 under the lot

Lower Bridge Creek Valley Aquifer System: confined sand and gravel (glacial); productivity moderate, vulnerability moderate, demand moderate; 146 wells linked, median depth 30.5 m

Aquifer 1267 under the lot

Lower Bridge Creek Valley Bedrock: fractured crystalline bedrock; productivity moderate, vulnerability moderate, demand not rated; 165 wells linked, median depth 64.6 m

Observation well 081

in aquifer 124, 24.4 km from the lot's middle: water level stable or no clear trend over 2013 to 2022; stable or no clear trend over 1975 to 2022; water typically 5 m below ground in a well 152 m deep (the Province's trend, records to December 2023)

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.

Observation wells are the Province's monitoring wells, their water level measured for years or decades. The trend is the Province's reading of one well's yearly levels: a decline of 3 to 10 cm a year that the record clearly shows is a moderate rate, 10 cm or more a large one, anything not clear is stable or no clear trend. It shows how the aquifer has behaved there, not what a well on this lot will give; 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.

Community sewer

No open map of the District of 100 Mile House's sewer service: ask the District of 100 Mile House whether the lot is on it

Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m

None recorded within 30 m

Mapped water within 30 m

None mapped

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

1,330 m² (72%)

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

1,340 m² (73%)

Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)

1,340 m² (73%)

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

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

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

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

Nearest hospital

100 Mile District General Hospital, 100 Mile House: 600 m

Next nearest hospital

Cariboo Memorial Hospital and Health Centre, Williams Lake: 80 km

Nearest emergency department

100 Mile District General Hospital, 100 Mile House: 600 m. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Nearest walk-in clinic

Exeter Medical Clinic, 100 Mile House: 700 m. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Thu 09:00 to 14:00, Fri 09:00 to 13:00. Note that hours are subject to physician availability and patient volume. Closed statutory holidays, and for lunch Mon - Thu, 12:00 - 13:00

Nearest pharmacy

Donex Pharmacy, 100 Mile House: 300 m. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Thu 09:00 to 17:30, Fri 09:00 to 17:00, Sat 09:00 to 17:30. Closed statutory holidays

School catchment

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

Nearest public elementary school

100 Mile House Elementary: 400 m

Nearest public secondary school

Peter Skene Ogden Secondary, 100 Mile House: 800 m

Nearest public school with early French immersion

100 Mile House Elementary: 400 m

Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone)

Collines-d'or, Kamloops: 119 km

Independent schools within 10 km

0

Nearest licensed group child care

Our Place Learning Centre: 200 m

Licensed group child care within 1 km

5: by the ages their operators list, 1 under 36 months, 2 for 30 months to 5 years, 1 preschool and 2 school age (3 list none); all take part in the fee reduction (CCFRI)

Licensed group child care within 2 km

5: by the ages their operators list, 1 under 36 months, 2 for 30 months to 5 years, 1 preschool and 2 school age (3 list none); all take part in the fee reduction (CCFRI)

Licensed family child care within about 2 km

2, in the providers' homes

Nearest grocery store

A grocery store (no name on the map): 500 m

Grocery stores within 10 km

5

Nearest fire station

100 Mile House Fire Rescue: 800 m, on the Province's list

Nearest fire hydrant

Not said: we have no open hydrant map of the District of 100 Mile House; ask its fire department where the nearest hydrant is

Nearest ambulance station

Ambulance station 327, 100 Mile House: 600 m

Nearest police detachment or station

100 Mile House RCMP: 1.2 km

Nearest transfer station or landfill

Watch Lake Landfill: 23 km

Nearest post office

Donex: 200 m

Postal area

V0K: Canada Post marks it a rural postal area (a 0 as the second character): mail mostly goes to a post office box or a rural route box, not to the door, and couriers often add a charge for rural postal codes (our reading).

Nearest gas station

Husky: 100 m

Nearest Service BC office

Service BC - 100 Mile House: 100 m

Nearest airport with screened airline flights

Williams Lake airport (YWL): 79 km

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

303 km

Nearest transit stop

Birch Ave S at 3rd St: 70 m, routes 1 and 2; 9 departures on a weekday, none on Saturday, none on Sunday (BC Transit's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)

Transit stops within 500 m

8

Nearest park or protected area

Flat Lake Park, a provincial park: 17 km from the lot line

Nearest recreation site or trail

Valentine Lake, on Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list: 13 km from the lot line

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Confirm services with the local government.

Best speed recorded within about 1 km

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 (ISED, reported, not a guarantee at the lot)

Nearest FM radio transmitter

CFFM-FM-1, 99.7 MHz FM, 80 W, near Mount Timothy (position given only roughly)

Nearest TV transmitter

CFJC-TV-6, TV channel 5, 980 W, near 100 Mile House (position given only roughly)

Bell satellite TV dish sightline

82° W sits 21° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 16°; 91.1° W sits 25° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 23° (terrain only; our reading)

Shaw Direct satellite TV dish sightline

107.3° W sits 30° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 28°; 111.1° W sits 30° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 28° (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.

Nearest climate station at about the lot's elevation

Buffalo Lake, 16 km away

Station elevation

989 m

Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)

928 m

January mean temperature (1981-2010)

−7.8 °C*

July mean temperature (1981-2010)

14.4 °C*

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

544 mm*

Yearly snowfall (1981-2010)

190 cm*

Wettest day in the station's record to 2010

58.6 mm of rain and melted snow, June 26, 1993

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

36 cm, December 19, 1989

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

72 cm, January 4, 1993

Period

1981-2010

Plant hardiness zone (regional)

4a

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

About 8 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 35 days longer than in the same models' 1971-2000

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

About 6 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 11 days a year; 0.22 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.

100 Mile House is nearer (500 m) but sits at 1,059 m, 131 m above the lot; we use Buffalo Lake because it is at about the lot's elevation.

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 15 of the 30 years, short of the World Meteorological Organization's standard of nearly all of them. ECCC publishes them as normals; treat them as a rougher guide.

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

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

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

The models work on a grid of about 9 by 6 km, which averages valley floors with the slopes around them, so their own figures can sit well off a station's normals and aren't comparable with them. The models' own figures here, for setting against each other only: about 10 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range 6 to 24 across the models), against about 2 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 135 days (range 125 to 155), against about 100; and about 86% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 76% to 88%), against about 92%. The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figure; it isn't a range of the change.

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

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

Local government

100 Mile House

Residential rate, 2026

7.02317 per $1,000

Municipal

2.84223 per $1,000

Regional district

1.03517 per $1,000

Regional hospital district

0.73233 per $1,000

School (set by the Province)

2.0551 per $1,000

Other

0.35834 per $1,000

BC municipalities' middle rate

6.24337 per $1,000

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

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

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

Police service

The 100 Mile House RCMP detachment (rural; inferred)

Crime severity index, 2025

82 (BC 92)

Violent / non-violent index

79 / 84 (BC 98 / 91)

Crime severity index, 2015

59 (BC 93)

Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025

412 (BC 281)

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

225 (BC 138)

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

135 (BC 441)

Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025

1,965 (BC 1,531)

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

6,331 (BC 6,943)

Inferred: the RCMP detachment named for this town. BC's police boundaries aren't open data, and a detachment's figures cover the countryside it polices as well as the town.

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

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

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