217 12th Ave, Keremeos

Zone

AG (Agriculture): about 94% of the parcel; PR (Parks and Recreation): about 6% of the parcel

Zoning bylaw

Village of Keremeos Zoning Bylaw No. 851

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)

Fewest homes provincial law requires

Adds no homes here: the lot is in the Agricultural Land Reserve, where the Agricultural Land Commission's limits on homes come first (usually one secondary suite or accessory home at most, and some need the Commission's approval).

Transit-oriented area (provincial minimum)

Not in one: the Province sets transit-oriented areas only around the SkyTrain, West Coast Express and bus exchange stations its regulations list, in Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, Delta, the Langleys, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, the North Vancouvers, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Victoria, Saanich, Langford, Colwood, View Royal, Nanaimo, Lantzville, Kelowna, Kamloops, Vernon, Penticton, Prince George and Whistler, and Keremeos isn't one of them (B.C. Reg. 263/2023, checked 2026-10-06).

Short-term rentals (provincial rule)

The Province's principal residence requirement doesn't apply in Keremeos (list in force from June 1, 2026), so the provincial rule doesn't limit short-term rentals to the host's home. Local bylaws, including the zone's own rules, can be stricter. Hosts anywhere in BC register each unit with the provincial registry.

We haven't summarised the rules of this zone. The bylaw is linked below.

On a town-sized lot, a zone line through the middle can be a real split or a small misfit between the zoning map and the parcel map; the local government's zoning map decides which. The rules shown are for the larger part.

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 Village of Keremeos'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.

Clear of steep slope and water setbacks

1,960 m² (89%)

In or within 30 m of mapped water

11%

Steeper than 30%, outside that strip

0%

15 to 30% slope

0%

On designated floodplain (counted as clear)

100%

Median slope

1%

Main slope direction

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

Which way it faces

1% south (SE to SW), 0% north (NW to NE), 99% 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 Riverine Floodplain 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.

Designated floodplain counts as clear here: homes are built on it, with floors raised to the flood construction level and setbacks from the water that the local bylaw sets. The Floodplain section names the map, and the level where we've read the local bylaw; ask the local government for the level that applies.

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.

Events with an order over the lot since April 2017

0

Events with only an alert

4

December 2021: Flooding in the Village of Keremeos

Evacuation alert for a flood, issued by Village of Keremeos (“Village of Keremeos”); alert 1 December 2021, all clear 4 December 2021.

November 2021: Village of Keremeos

Evacuation alert for a flood, issued by Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (“Village of Keremeos”); alert 15 November 2021, all clear 16 November 2021.

July 2018: Snowy Mtn Wildfire

Evacuation alert for a wildfire, issued by Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (“Expansion Snowy Mtn Fire”); alert 31 July 2018, all clear 28 August 2018.

May 2018: Village of Keremeos

Evacuation alert for a flood, issued by Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen (“Village of Keremeos”); alert 13 May 2018, all clear 23 May 2018.

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.

An alert asks people to be ready to leave; no order to leave covered this lot in the record.

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

0.12 g

Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years

0.052 g

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

0.28 g

The same value in city centres

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

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). Soft soil, fill or a slope can make shaking stronger; the site class and the values a building is designed for come from the building official or a geotechnical engineer.

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.

On record on the lot or within 100 m

0

On record within 1 km

0

On record within 5 km

6

Nearest

2.5 km from the lot: a rock fall, date not recorded

Kinds within 5 km

rock fall 6

With a date

2 of 6; the latest 16 Jan 2023 (rock fall, 2.7 km from the lot)

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

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

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

Health region (regional figure, not this lot)

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.

Federal sites within 2 km

0

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

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

Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.

Over the parcel

None

Within 1 km

1 mineral claim

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.

At-risk species or ecosystems on the parcel

None recorded

Within 500 m

Sandhill Skipper (Red-listed), Umatilla Dace (Red-listed), Great Basin Spadefoot (Blue-listed), Lewis's Woodpecker (Blue-listed)

Wide-ranging species mapped over it

None

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

American Badger jeffersonii subspecies (Western population) (safe movement)

Wide federal critical habitat areas over it

Great Basin Spadefoot (core; site: Okanagan/Similkameen (south); a wide area, up to 927 ha); Lewis's Woodpecker (site: Okanagan-Similkameen; a wide area, up to 2,034 ha)

Federal critical habitat placed by grid square

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

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 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.

Nearest railway (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Nearest highway or major road (2 km)

Crowsnest Highway (Highway CN 3), a highway, about 500 m from the lot line

Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Light at night (within 1 km, 2024)

3 nW/cm²/sr, faint, as around Wells or Lytton (our reading); darker than about 84% of BC's homes.

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.

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.

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, 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.

Community water

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

Wells within 2 km

84

Median depth

12 m

Median tested yield

208 L/min (48 wells tested)

Median water level below ground

4 m

Aquifer 259 under the lot

Similkameen River Aquifer: unconfined sand and gravel (large river system); productivity high, vulnerability high, demand moderate; 593 wells linked, median depth 12.2 m

Observation well 075

in aquifer 259, 820 m from the lot's middle: water level stable or no clear trend over 2014 to 2023; stable or no clear trend over 1969 to 2023; water typically 3 m below ground in a well 28 m deep (the Province's trend, records to December 2023)

Observation well 203

in aquifer 259, 7.6 km from the lot's middle: water level falling about 5.9 cm a year (moderate rate) over 2014 to 2023; stable or no clear trend over 1977 to 2023; water typically 24 m below ground in a well 61 m deep (the Province's trend, records to December 2023)

Groundwater tested 810 m away

At the Province's observation well 076, in aquifer 259, under the lot: manganese median 0.259 mg/L, over the 0.12 mg/L limit (1 of 2 samples over); lead median 0.03 mg/L, over the 0.005 mg/L limit (1 of 2 samples over); within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L (medians): arsenic 0.00015, fluoride 0.06, uranium 0.00034, nitrate (as nitrogen) 0.32; up to 2 samples, 2003 to 2010. Not this lot's water: test your own well.

Groundwater tested 820 m away

At the Province's observation well 075, in aquifer 259, under the lot: manganese median 0.169 mg/L, over the 0.12 mg/L limit (3 of 5 samples over); within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L (medians): arsenic 0.001, fluoride 0.07, uranium 0.00085, nitrate (as nitrogen) under detection, lead 0.00005; up to 5 samples, 2001 to 2018. Not this lot's water: test your own well.

Groundwater tested 1.7 km away

At the Province's observation well 077, in aquifer 259, under the lot: manganese 0.131 mg/L, over the 0.12 mg/L limit; within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L: arsenic 0.00025, fluoride 0.11, uranium 0.0019, nitrate (as nitrogen) under detection, lead 0.000024; 1 sample, 2010. Not this lot's water: test your own well.

More wells tested

1 more within 10 km in the Province's records, farther away or in another aquifer

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.

These are samples of raw water, before any treatment, from wells in the Province's environmental monitoring records since 2000: its observation wells and groundwater surveys, water systems' wells and other drinking-water wells; wells at landfills, mines and permit holders' works are left out. A result below the lab's detection limit counts at that limit. Lead mostly comes from a well's pipes and fittings rather than the aquifer. Groundwater changes over short distances and with depth, so a nearby well says what the aquifer can hold, not what a well on this lot gives. Bacteria aren't shown: they depend on how each well is built and kept.

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.

Test your own well, for bacteria and these, at an accredited lab; your health authority can say which labs take samples from private wells.

Community sewer

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

Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m

None recorded within 30 m

Mapped water within 30 m

Similkameen River

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

1,390 m² (63%)

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

1,390 m² (63%)

Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)

1,390 m² (63%)

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

South Okanagan General Hospital, Oliver: 21 km

Next nearest hospital

Penticton Regional Hospital: 36 km

Emergency departments and walk-in clinics

Not loaded yet: the services file was built before they were added

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

Similkameen Elem-Secondary, Keremeos: 1.4 km

Nearest public secondary school

Similkameen Elem-Secondary, Keremeos: 1.4 km

Nearest public school with early French immersion

Penticton Secondary: 37 km

Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone)

Secondaire de Penticton: 37 km

Independent schools within 10 km

0

Nearest licensed group child care

Presidential Kids Academy - Sparks: 1.6 km

Licensed group child care within 1 km

None on the Province's list

Licensed group child care within 2 km

1: by the ages their operators list, 1 under 36 months and 1 for 30 months to 5 years; it takes part in the fee reduction (CCFRI)

Licensed family child care within about 2 km

2, in the providers' homes

Nearest grocery store

Buy-Low Foods: 900 m

Grocery stores within 10 km

2

Nearest fire station

Keremeos Fire Department: 900 m, on the Province's list

Nearest fire hydrant

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

Nearest ambulance station

Ambulance station 317, Keremeos: 1 km

Nearest transfer station or landfill

Keremeos Transfer Station (landfill): 2.1 km

Nearest post office

Keremeos: 800 m

Nearest gas station

Canco: 1.3 km

Nearest transit stop

12th Ave at Mountain View Manor: 260 m, route 50; 3 departures a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday only (BC Transit's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)

Busiest stop within 500 m

South Similkameen Health Centre: 480 m, route 50; 6 departures a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday only (BC Transit's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)

Transit stops within 500 m

2

Nearest park or protected area

Keremeos Columns Park, a provincial park: 5.9 km from the lot line

Nearest recreation site or trail

Red Bridge, 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. Not every hospital has a 24-hour emergency department, and some small towns have a health centre with emergency care that isn't on this list: check with the regional health authority.

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 11, 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 and ambulance stations 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.

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).

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

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.

Nearest climate station

Keremeos 2, 1.3 km away

Station elevation

435 m

Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)

415 m

January mean temperature (1981-2010)

−2.0 °C*

July mean temperature (1981-2010)

20.9 °C*

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

325 mm*

Yearly snowfall (1981-2010)

69 cm*

Days a year over 30 °C (1981-2010)

32 days, 3.9 days of them over 35 °C*

Heating degree days, below 18 °C (1981-2010)

3,345 a year*

Growing degree days, above 5 °C (1981-2010)

2,383 a year; 1,319 above 10 °C*

Period

1981-2010

Plant hardiness zone (regional)

6a

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

About 20 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

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 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.

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

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 29 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range 22 to 50 across the models), against about 9 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 190 days (range 165 to 215), against about 150; and about 58% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 46% to 62%), against about 74%. The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figure; it isn't a range of the change.

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

Keremeos

Residential rate, 2026

7.3384 per $1,000

Municipal

2.7183 per $1,000

Regional district

2.3852 per $1,000

Regional hospital district

0.2152 per $1,000

School (set by the Province)

1.7162 per $1,000

Other

0.3035 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 South Okanagan-Keremeos RCMP detachment (rural; inferred)

Crime severity index, 2025

78 (BC 92)

Violent / non-violent index

115 / 65 (BC 98 / 91)

Crime severity index, 2015

76 (BC 93)

Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025

187 (BC 281)

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

504 (BC 138)

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

131 (BC 441)

Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025

2,092 (BC 1,531)

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

6,106 (BC 6,943)

Inferred: Statistics Canada publishes no police figures under Keremeos's name, even where a detachment works in the town. These are the nearest RCMP rural detachment's it does publish, less than 1 km away: figures for that detachment's area, not for Keremeos. BC's police boundaries aren't open data; the local RCMP can say whose figures include Keremeos.

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.