Property dossier · British Columbia
Lot in Lake Country (PID 013-537-474)
Lake Country
Regional District of Central Okanagan
- Parcel
- Subdivision
- Mapped area
- 129.94 ha (321.08 acres)
- Local government
- Lake Country
- Checked
- Oct 20, 2026
placedossier.com/p/013537474 · checked 2026-10-20
On the plan: everything we found3.6 km across
Plan is our drawing of every layer in this report on one sheet, with contours every 100 m (578–1389 m above sea level) from NRCan's 30 m elevation model: 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- Wateron or at the lotClark Creek
- Public roadon or at the lotBeaver Lake Road
- Wildfireon or at the lotthe 2015 fire
- Trailon or at the lotAn unnamed footpath
- Farmland reserveon or at the lotALR land
Nothing within 970 m: water well, logging or crown land plan, power line, pipeline, gravel pit or quarry, military land, railway, highway or major road, airport or airstrip, 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.
§05Wildfire history Look into
Wildfire burned this parcel once on record, in 2015. The Province's ecosystem map puts the lot in dry forest and grassland that burned often and lightly before fires were put out (NDT4).
- 2015 on or at the lot
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 recordwildfire perimeters on the plan
- Fires on the parcel
- 1
- Last burned on the parcel
- 2015
- Each fire on the parcel
- 2015 (5 ha, caused by people)
- Fires within 2 km
- 2
- Within 2 km in the last 30 years
- 1
- Most recent nearby
- 2015 (5 ha, caused by people)
- Largest nearby
- 1958 (40 ha, caused by people)
- Causes on record within 2 km
- 2 caused by people
- 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 units over the lot
- Interior Douglas-fir zone, dry mild subzone, Kettle variant (IDFdm1) and Interior Douglas-fir zone, very dry hot subzone, Okanagan variant (IDFxh1)
- Fire on the lot
- 2015: severe over <1% of the lot
- Western spruce budworm on the lot (in Douglas-fir)
- 2012: light over 13% of the lot; 2009: light over 47% of the lot
- Within 1 km, not on the lot
- Douglas-fir beetle in 2015 (nearest 160 m); mountain pine beetle in 2005, 2009 and 2010 (nearest 640 m)
- What the survey's classes mean
- foliage damage: grey, trees killed by years of foliage damage, recorded once the outbreak has run its course; severe, most trees with more than half their foliage damaged; moderate, a third of many trees' foliage severely damaged; light, some branch tips and upper crowns damaged, barely visible from the air. trees killed: very severe, 50% or more of the trees recently killed; severe, 30 to 49% of the trees recently killed; moderate, 11 to 29%; light, 1 to 10%; trace, under 1%
- Surveys read
- 1999 to 2025, the Province's own; on the lot or within 1 km of its line
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 lot crosses a line between two units on a map drawn at about 1:250,000, so either may describe it best (our reading).
The Province's Aerial Overview Survey is flown each summer from small planes 500 to 1,000 m up, sketching damaged stands on maps at 1:100,000 to 1:250,000: it gives the general location and rough extent of damage, not a ground count, and the Province says it isn't accurate enough to direct work on the ground. Most of the province is flown each year, but weather and smoke leave gaps, so a year with no record isn't a year with no damage. Each year's polygons record the trees recently killed (fading or red) or the foliage damaged that season, as the surveyors read it from the air; trees killed in earlier years aren't counted again, and dead trees may since have fallen, been logged or burned. Clumps of up to about 50 dead trees are mapped as spots, which aren't shown here. Our summary of the survey's standards and damage ratings, checked 2026-10-12.
Standing dead trees can be a cost to fell, add fuel for a fire, and change the view as they come down (our reading); a forester or certified arborist can say what stands on the lot now.
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 →
§10Farmland reserve (ALR) Look into
All or part of this parcel is in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
In the ALR, farming comes first: a second home, subdividing, non-farm uses and bringing in fill are restricted and often need the Agricultural Land Commission's approval, and local zoning applies on top. Check the ALC's current rules before you plan any of these.
The recordfarmland reserve on the plan
- In the ALR
- Yes (all or part)
Source: Agricultural Land Reserve polygons, Agricultural Land Commission (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
What the ALR means for a buyer →
Applying to the ALC to subdivide, build more or exclude land →
§07Water and streamside setbacks Look into
Mapped water on or within 30 m of the parcel: Clark Creek (on the parcel), 3 unnamed streams and an unnamed wetland. Rainbow Trout is recorded in Clark Creek (the Province's fish records).
Water nearby limits where you can build, clear or fill. In the regional districts covered by the Riparian Areas Protection Regulation, development within 30 m of a stream, lake or wetland needs a qualified environmental professional's assessment first; elsewhere the local bylaw sets its own setbacks, and any work in or next to a stream needs approval under the Water Sustainability Act. Ask the local government which rules apply here.
The recordwater and 30 m strip on the plan
- Within 30 m
- Clark Creek (on the parcel), 3 unnamed streams and an unnamed wetland
- On the parcel
- Clark Creek (on the parcel), 3 unnamed streams and an unnamed wetland
- Fish recorded in the water by the lot
- Clark Creek: Rainbow Trout (2 records, in 2023)
- Docks and moorage on the Province's register (50 m)
- No moorage tenure on the Province's register within 50 m
The Freshwater Atlas is mapped at 1:20,000, so a line can be tens of metres from the real bank and small streams can be missing. A site survey sets the actual setback.
The Province's fish records come from surveys, fisheries work and permits, so they cover the waters someone sampled: a record says a fish was found somewhere in that water, not by this lot, and no record doesn't mean no fish (our reading). A qualified environmental professional decides whether the water by the lot is fish habitat. Under the Riparian Areas Protection Regulation, in the regional districts and the Islands Trust area it names, a residential, commercial or industrial development within a stream's riparian assessment area (30 m from the stream in most cases) needs a qualified environmental professional's assessment when the stream provides fish habitat to protected fish: salmon, trout, char and the other salmonids, game fish, and fish listed under the federal Species at Risk Act (ss. 1 to 3). A "stream" there includes lakes, and ditches, springs and wetlands connected to one by surface flow. Our summary, checked 2026-10-11.
The foreshore and the bed of a lake, river or the sea below the natural boundary (the visible high water mark) are almost all Crown land in BC, whoever owns the lot behind them, so a dock, boat lift or ramp on them needs the Province's authorization under the Land Act, and must leave the public's way along the foreshore open. The Province's General Permission for private moorage authorizes one dock fronting a lot without an application when the dock's owner owns or leases that lot, it's for private residential moorage only, it isn't over an archaeological site, eelgrass, a park, ecological reserve or protected area, or in an application-only area or a Land Act reserve, no other tenure covers that foreshore, and it's built within the permission's limits: floating or held above the water, no fill, dredging, cribs or solid core, no boathouse, roof, deck or shed, at least 5 m from the side lot line projected out over the water (6 m beside a public beach access or park) and 10 m from another dock, and on a lake or river no more than 42 m out with a float up to 3 m and a walkway up to 1.5 m wide (on the sea 60 m out, a 14 by 3.7 m float, and a biologist's marine habitat assessment before a new dock). Otherwise the dock needs a specific permission or a lease, applied for through FrontCounter BC. Building in or about a lake, river or stream also needs a Water Sustainability Act s. 11 notification or approval, and the local government's zoning and bylaws apply as well. Our summary of the Province's private moorage page and its General Permission (May 9, 2024), checked 2026-10-07.
A dock under the General Permission needs no application, so it isn't on the register: no tenure listed here doesn't mean there's no dock, or that a dock on the shore isn't authorized (our reading). Ask the seller how an existing dock is authorized, and FrontCounter BC (1-877-855-3222) before building or changing one.
Sources (6)
Freshwater Atlas (streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, coastline), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Known BC Fish Observations and BC Fish Distributions, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Riparian Areas Protection Regulation, B.C. Reg. 178/2019, ss. 1 to 3 (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-11); TANTALIS Crown tenures, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Land use – private moorage, Province of BC (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-07); Provincial General Permission for the Use of Crown Land for Private Moorage (Land Act), version of May 9, 2024 (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-07).
Which streamside rules apply, and where →
Docks and moorage: what the Province allows on the foreshore →
§14Wildlife and habitat Look into
The Conservation Data Centre records 2 species or ecosystems at risk on this parcel: trembling aspen / common snowberry / Kentucky bluegrass (Red-listed) and common cattail Marsh (Blue-listed). The Province's sensitive ecosystem inventory maps about 25% of the lot as broadleaf woodland, woodland, grassland and 2 more sensitive ecosystems.
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
- trembling aspen / common snowberry / Kentucky bluegrass (Red-listed), common cattail Marsh (Blue-listed)
- Within 500 m
- None recorded
- 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
- 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; core; a wide area, up to 182,952 ha)
- Sensitive ecosystems mapped on the lot
- Broadleaf woodland about 10%; woodland about 5%; grassland under 5%; riparian (streamside and shoreline) under 5%; wetland under 5% of the lot, per the Province's inventory
- Other important ecosystems mapped
- Mature forest under 5% of the lot
- Other classes on the map
- A class the map codes DG about 10% of the lot (the project's own legend names it)
- Mapped as not sensitive
- About 45% of the lot
- Sensitive ecosystem mapping
- Lake Country 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
- Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), 45% of the lot
- Sparse coniferous forest of Douglas-fir 82%, ponderosa pine 18%; the leading trees about 141 years old and 22 m tall (projected to 2025); crown closure 39%; 2% of the stand dead, mountain pine beetle (2005); air photos of 2005
- Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), 26% of the lot
- Open grass and other low plants; air photos of 1975; mapped as one wide area of 1,497 ha, so the lot itself can differ
- Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), 16% of the lot
- Sparse low shrubs with scattered trees of Douglas-fir 70%, ponderosa pine 20%, trembling aspen 10%; the leading trees about 141 years old and 25 m tall (projected to 2025); crown closure 4%; air photos of 1984
- Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), the rest
- 13% of the lot in smaller stands on the inventory
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).
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.
The Province's Vegetation Resources Inventory maps forest and other land cover from air photos, reading each stand as one: its trees by share of the stand, the leading species' age and height projected forward each year from the photo year, and crown closure (the share of the ground the tree crowns cover). It is built to plan forestry across the landscape, not to describe one lot: a mapped stand can hold clearings, a house site or other trees, the figures on private land can rest on old photos, and a stand logged or cleared since may still be drawn as forest. Before counting on timber, clearing costs or how much fuel stands near a house, have a forester or arborist walk the lot. Our summary, checked 2026-10-18.
Sources (8)
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); VRI – Forest Vegetation Composite Rank 1 Layer (R1), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).
For reference17
What the records say, with nothing in them to look into.
About this lot 6
§02What you can build (zoning) For reference
Zoned A1 (Agriculture 1) by the District of Lake Country.
The recordthe lot on the plan
- Zone
- A1 (Agriculture 1)
- Zoning bylaw
- District of Lake Country Zoning Bylaw 561, 2007
- Homes allowed
- One house with one secondary suite, or one manufactured or mobile home. On land classed as a farm for assessment, also one mobile home up to 9 m wide for family or farm help, more farm homes where Council approves them under the Agricultural Land Commission Act, and seasonal housing for farm help (s. 12.1.5)
- Main uses
- Farming (intensive farming included), agro-forestry, aquaculture, greenhouses and nurseries, horse riding, training and boarding (up to 40 stalls), cannabis production (in the ALR only, s. 10.14), alcohol production, biological pest control products, public parks, a house or mobile home. On a farm-classed lot also: farm buildings, festivals and events such as weddings, food and drink service on 2 ha or more (up to 250 m², from the farm's own products), farm retail (up to 300 m², at most half bought in), compost, packing, an unpaved airstrip and helipad. On any lot: a secondary suite, a bed and breakfast, home occupations, kennels and stables (2.0 ha or more), animal clinics, a small care centre or group home. Short term vacation rental isn't listed here
- Smallest lot for a subdivision
- 3.8 ha; a homesite severance lot 2,500 m² with community water, 700 m² with water and sewer
- Lot coverage
- 10% for homes and accessory buildings; 35% for farm buildings and homes together, 75% for greenhouses and nurseries with closed water systems
- Height limit
- Homes and farm-help housing 9.5 m or 2½ storeys; accessory buildings 6.0 m; farm buildings 16.0 m (silos 34.0 m, silo and grain storage 41.0 m, grain bins 46.0 m)
- Setbacks
- Front 6.0 m, sides 3.0 m (4.0 m on a street), rear 10.0 m (3.0 m for accessory buildings); livestock areas and buildings with more than 4 animals or for processing animal products 15.0 m from every lot line, 30.0 m where the line borders a residential zone; kennels and stables 15.0 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)
- 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 Lake Country 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 applies in Lake Country (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.
Lands in the Agricultural Land Reserve also fall under the Agricultural Land Commission's rules (s. 12.1.8). Whether this lot is in the ALR is in the report's ALR section.
On a lot under 0.5 ha, and on a homesite severance lot the Commission approved, the house follows the RU1 zone's rules for a single home instead (ss. 7.5, 12.1.8).
Accessory buildings: no size limit on a farm-classed lot; otherwise up to 100 m² in all (ss. 12.1.3, 12.1.4).
Seasonal farm-help housing: at most 15 m² of private space per bed unit, shared kitchen and washrooms, no permanent foundation, up to 10 units per hectare of farmland (s. 12.1.5).
A secondary suite: one per main home, inside it, at most 90 m² or 40% of the building's floor area, whichever is less; one property with the home, and not alongside lodgers, a bed and breakfast or a group home (s. 10.7).
A bed and breakfast: in the main home only, at most 4 guest rooms of 11 m² or more with 2 guests each, run by someone who lives there, guest parking screened from the neighbours (s. 10.9).
Short term vacation rental isn't a listed use in A1 (the rural residential and RU1 zones list it, s. 10.15); ask the District before renting a home here by the night. Agri-tourism accommodation is only allowed in the A1ta zone, not A1 (s. 12.1.3).
Sections 7 (general development rules), 8 (landscaping and fencing), 9 (parking), 10 (specific uses) and 11 (signs) also apply.
Our summary of Section 12.1 of District of Lake Country Zoning Bylaw 561, 2007, consolidated to 2026-08-18, checked 2026-10-06. 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 District of Lake Country's community services 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 (10)
Zoning map, District of Lake Country (Open Government Licence – District of Lake Country); The A1 zone explained (our summary); District of Lake Country Zoning Bylaw 561, 2007 (bylaw text, summarised in our words); Heritage Conservation Areas of BC, Heritage Branch, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); 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 99.2 ha (76%) of the lot is clear of steep slope and water setbacks; 12% is in or within 30 m of mapped water and 12% more is steeper than 30%. The ground mostly faces south-west. The Province's terrain stability map marks about 5% of the lot as potentially unstable (class IV).
- Clear 76%
- Steeper than 30% 12%
- Within 30 m of water 11%
- Water 0%
The recordbuildable area on the plan
- Clear of steep slope and water setbacks
- 99.2 ha (76%)
- In or within 30 m of mapped water
- 12%
- Steeper than 30%, outside that strip
- 12%
- 15 to 30% slope
- 44%
- On designated floodplain (counted as clear)
- 0%
- Median slope
- 16%
- Main slope direction
- Mostly faces south-west (57% of the lot faces within 45° of it); measured by us on NRCan's 30 m elevation model
- Which way it faces
- 39% south (SE to SW), 3% north (NW to NE), 4% flat; the rest east or west
- Terrain stability (Kalamalka KingEdward Cr)
- Class IV, Potentially unstable: about 5% of the lot; Class III, Stable: low landslide potential: about 55% of the lot; Class II, Stable: very low landslide potential: about 25% of the lot; Class I, Stable: negligible landslide potential: about 10% of the lot (the Province's detailed terrain stability mapping, mapped at 1:20,000)
Estimated by us on Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model: each dot on the plan is one 30 m cell. Small banks, gullies and benches can be smoothed out, and on lots under a few hectares the edges count for a lot. 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.
The Province's terrain stability classes come from reading air photos, with some field checks, to plan logging and forest roads (I to III stable, IV potentially unstable, V unstable; reconnaissance maps use S, P and U). They aren't a geotechnical assessment of a building site. Where a building inspector considers land likely subject to land slip, rockfalls, debris flows or similar hazards, they can require a report from a professional engineer or geoscientist that it can be used safely before issuing a building permit, and must refuse one where the report says it can't (Community Charter s. 56, which applies in regional districts through Local Government Act s. 302). Our summary, checked 2026-10-07.
Sources (4)
Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), 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); Community Charter, s. 56 (requirement for geotechnical report), and Local Government Act, s. 302, BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-07).
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 Clark Creek near Winfield gauge, 1.3 km away, recorded its highest flow in 24 years of yearly peaks on May 3, 2020.
- Highest, 2020 2.2 m³/s
- Median 1.1 m³/s
The record
- Dams nearby
- None within 1 km on the Province's list of dams
- Dikes nearby
- None within 1 km on the Province's map of dikes and flood protection works
- Yearly peak flow, Clark Creek
- A median of 1.1 m³/s at the Clark Creek near Winfield gauge (08NM146), 1.3 km away, over 24 years with a peak on record from 1969 to 2024
- Highest peak on record, Clark Creek
- 2.2 m³/s on May 3, 2020
- Last 10 yearly peaks
- 2014: 1.4 m³/s; 2015: 0.8 m³/s; 2016: 1.5 m³/s; 2018: 1.8 m³/s; 2019: 0.6 m³/s; 2020: 2.2 m³/s; 2021: 0.7 m³/s; 2022: 1.3 m³/s; 2023: 0.7 m³/s; 2024: 0.5 m³/s
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.
The gauge's yearly peak is the highest flow it measured each year, in cubic metres a second, from the Water Survey of Canada's record (HYDAT). It is the river's record at the gauge, not a flood line or a water level at this lot: a lot upstream or downstream, higher on the bank or behind a dike floods differently, and years the gauge didn't run or didn't record a peak are missing. The local government's flood mapping and flood construction level say what applies to the lot.
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); BC Dams, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); HYDAT: annual instantaneous peak flows, Water Survey of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada).
§08Water wells nearby For reference
We have no open map of the District of Lake Country's water and sewer service: most lots in its built-up parts are on it, though rural parts often aren't (our reading); ask the District of Lake Country before planning a well or field. No water-supply wells on record within 2 km. No mapped aquifer under the lot.
The record
- Community water
- No open map of the District of Lake Country's water service: ask the District of Lake Country whether the lot is on it
- Wells within 2 km
- 0
- Median depth
- –
- Median tested yield
- –
- Median water level below ground
- –
- Mapped aquifer under the lot
- None mapped
- Observation well 356
- 4.8 km from the lot's middle: water level falling about 7.2 cm a year (moderate rate) over 2014 to 2023; stable or no clear trend over 2004 to 2023; water typically 8 m below ground in a well 12 m deep (the Province's trend, records to December 2023)
- Groundwater tested 4.2 km away
- At the Province's observation well 162, in aquifer 1022: uranium 0.0257 mg/L, over the 0.02 mg/L limit; within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L: arsenic 0.00076, fluoride 0.51, manganese 0.12, nitrate (as nitrogen) 0.005, lead 0.000005; manganese over the 0.02 mg/L taste and staining level in its one sample; 1 sample, 2012. Not this lot's water: test your own well.
- Groundwater tested 4.8 km away
- At the Province's observation well 356, in aquifer 344: manganese median 6.8 mg/L, over the 0.12 mg/L limit (4 of 4 samples over); within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L (medians): arsenic 0.00067, fluoride 0.14, uranium 0.0052, nitrate (as nitrogen) 0.86, lead 0.000076; up to 4 samples, 2004 to 2016. Not this lot's water: test your own well.
- Groundwater tested 8.3 km away
- At the Province's observation well 172, in aquifer 1238: manganese median 0.0357 mg/L, 1 of 4 samples over the 0.12 mg/L limit; lead median 0.00368 mg/L, 2 of 4 samples over the 0.005 mg/L limit; within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L (medians): arsenic 0.00013, fluoride 0.067, uranium 0.00032, nitrate (as nitrogen) 0.52; up to 4 samples, 2003 to 2016. Not this lot's water: test your own well.
- More wells tested
- 1 more within 10 km in the Province's records, farther away
- 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.
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Groundwater wells (GWELLS), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); 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).
§09Septic For reference
We have no open map of the District of Lake Country's water and sewer service: most lots in its built-up parts are on it, though rural parts often aren't (our reading); ask the District of Lake Country before planning a well or field. If the lot isn't on sewer: about 88.9 ha (68%) 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.
The record
- Community sewer
- No open map of the District of Lake Country's sewer service: ask the District of Lake Country whether the lot is on it
- Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m
- None recorded within 30 m
- Mapped water within 30 m
- Clark Creek (on the parcel), 3 unnamed streams and an unnamed wetland
- Within the setbacks, under 15% slope (gravity fields, mounds and trenches)
- 46.4 ha (36%)
- Within the setbacks, under 25% slope (mounds, at-grade beds and trenches)
- 88.9 ha (68%)
- Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)
- 111.6 ha (86%)
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.
Sources (7)
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); Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), 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); Community Charter, s. 56 (requirement for geotechnical report), and Local Government Act, s. 302, BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-07).
§21Winter sun For reference
On December 21 the hills leave about 7 h of possible direct sun at the lot's middle, against 7 h 50 min on open ground at this latitude. (Our estimate from the terrain; trees and buildings not counted.) The ground also allows a view of Ellison Lake to the southwest (our reading). Terrace Mountain is in sight, 21 km to the west-northwest (our reading).
The record
- December 21 (shortest day)
- 7 h of possible direct sun; 7 h 50 min on open ground
- March 21 (about the same on September 21)
- 10 h 40 min; 12 h on open ground
- June 21 (longest day)
- 13 h 40 min; 16 h 10 min on open ground
- Noon sun on December 21
- 17° above level; the hills due south rise to 0°
- Highest hills in the winter sun's path
- 7° above level to the south-east, 0.6 km away
- Measured at
- The middle of the lot, ground at about 848 m, from head height
- Solar panel output (south-facing, tilted at the latitude)
- About 1,040 kWh a year for each kW of panels (December about 35), on Natural Resources Canada's 1998-2022 sunshine map; the sun on the panel's face is 3.81 kWh/m² a day over the year, 1.50 in December
- Water the ground lets you see (16 km)
- Ellison Lake to the southwest, from about 6.5 km away, across about 15° of the horizon; Okanagan Lake to the west-southwest, from about 10.9 km away, across about 10° of the horizon
- Highest skyline
- 22° above level to the northeast, 0.1 km away
- Named peaks in view (150 km)
- Terrace Mountain to the west-northwest, 21 km away (about 1,872 m); Mount Hayman to the west-southwest, 20 km away (about 1,425 m); Little White Mountain to the south, 38 km away (about 2,147 m); Mount Eneas to the southwest, 48 km away (about 1,077 m); Isintok Mountain to the southwest, 70 km away (about 1,904 m); and 1 more
- Highest ground in view
- About 2,147 m: Little White Mountain, to the south, 38 km away
- Farthest ground in view
- About 73 km to the southwest
- Most relief in one direction
- To the southwest: from about 426 m, 6.5 km away, up to about 2,042 m, 72 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 Kelowna to the south-southwest, 18 km (133 nW/cm²/sr at the brightest in line, like a city centre); the lights of West Kelowna to the southwest, 25 km (44 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 11% of the direct sun on December 21 and about 16% on June 21 (our figure above), so a panel at the lot's middle would most likely make less than this, through the year (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 →
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§15Earthquake shaking For reference
The building code's design shaking here is 0.085 g peak ground acceleration on firm ground, about 20% of Vancouver's.
| Ground | Peak acceleration | Sa(0.2), low buildings |
|---|---|---|
| Firm ground (C) | 0.085 g | 0.19 g |
| Stiff soil (D) | 0.11 g | 0.26 g |
| Soft soil (E) | 0.11 g | 0.28 g |
The record
- Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years (the code's design level)
- 0.085 g
- Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years
- 0.033 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 32 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
- M3.0 in September 2016, about 35 km away (NRCan: 19 km E of Vernon, 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.
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
5 landslides on record within 5 km; the nearest, a debris avalanche, is 1.8 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
- 5
- Nearest
- 1.8 km from the lot: a debris avalanche, date not recorded
- Kinds within 5 km
- debris avalanche 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.
Source: Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database, version 14.0 (May 2026), Brideau et al. (CC BY 4.0).
§17Federal contaminated sites For reference
No federal contaminated sites listed within 2 km. This inventory covers federal land only; see below for what that leaves out.
The record
- 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.
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
Kelowna General Hospital is the nearest hospital, 21 km away in a straight line; the nearest fire station is Lake Country Fire Department Station 71 Winfield, 5.3 km; the nearest grocery store 4.5 km and public elementary school 3.5 km.
The record
- Nearest hospital
- Kelowna General Hospital: 21 km
- Next nearest hospital
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital: 25 km
- Nearest emergency department
- Kelowna General Hospital: 21 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Nearest walk-in clinic
- Evolve Allied Health, Lake Country: 5.4 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Fri 08:00 to 16:00. Note that hours are subject to physician availability and patient volume. Hours are subject to change. Weekend hours may be available. Call to confirm. Closed statutory holidays
- Nearest pharmacy
- Winfield I.D.A. Pharmacy, Lake Country: 4.9 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Fri 09:00 to 19:00, Sat and Sun 09:00 to 17:00. Closed statutory holidays
- Nearest late-night or 24-hour pharmacy
- Shoppers Drug Mart, Lake Country: 7 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
- Peter Greer Elementary, Winfield: 3.5 km
- Nearest public secondary school
- George Elliot Secondary, Winfield: 4.3 km
- Nearest public school with early French immersion
- Peter Greer Elementary, Winfield: 3.5 km
- Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone)
- de l'Anse-au-sable, Kelowna: 25 km
- Independent schools within 10 km
- 0
- Nearest licensed group child care
- None within 2 km on the Province's list; the nearest is 3.4 km away
- Licensed family child care within about 2 km
- None on the Province's list
- Nearest grocery store
- IGA Marketplace: 4.5 km
- Grocery stores within 10 km
- 4
- Nearest fire station
- Lake Country Fire Department Station 71 Winfield: 5.3 km, on the Province's list
- Nearest fire hydrant
- Not said: we have no open hydrant map of the District of Lake Country; ask its fire department where the nearest hydrant is
- Nearest ambulance station
- Ambulance station 343, Lake Country: 4.4 km
- Nearest police detachment or station
- Lake Country RCMP: 4.5 km
- Nearest transfer station or landfill
- Glenmore Landfill: 11 km
- Nearest post office
- Lake Country Main: 4.5 km
- Postal area
- V4V: an urban postal area: homes mostly get mail at the door or a community mailbox (our reading).
- Nearest gas station
- Coop: 4.5 km
- Nearest Service BC office
- Service BC - Kelowna: 20 km
- Nearest airport with screened airline flights
- Kelowna airport (YLW): 9.4 km
- Vancouver International Airport (YVR), BC's main airport for flights abroad
- 292 km
- Nearest transit stop
- None within 1 km; the nearest is Lodge Rd at Sherman Dr: 3.6 km, route 23; 41 departures on a weekday, 29 on Saturday, 15 on Sunday (BC Transit's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)
- Nearest park or protected area
- Wrinkly Face Park, a provincial park: 880 m from the lot line
- Nearest recreation site or trail
- Swalwell Lake, on Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list: 7 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.
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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 2026-10-13) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); 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 2026-10-13, © 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).
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 fixed wireless; no wired service is recorded. 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)
- none recorded
- 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 300 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
- CBTK-FM, 88.9 MHz FM, 5.2 kW, at Kelowna, about 16 km to the west-south-west; the bare ground doesn't block the line to it (our reading, terrain only)
- Nearest TV transmitter
- CH4490-DT, TV channel 34 (digital), 49 W, at Winfield, about 7.9 km to the north-west; hills about 0.6 km away rise to 4.7° in its direction, above the line to the antenna: likely blocked by the bare ground (our reading)
- Bell satellite TV dish sightline
- 82° W sits 23° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 16°; 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 30°; 111.1° W sits 32° up to the south, clear of the hills by 31° (terrain only; our reading)
- Starlink: sky hidden by the hills
- The hills rise past 20° in 10% of directions round the lot's middle, up to 22° (terrain only; our reading)
This is the service providers report to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for homes and roads near the lot, not a quote: ask providers whether they serve this address, at what speed and at what cost to connect.
Speeds are download/upload bands. 50/10 Mbps is ISED's top band, so a place in it can get much faster service, and it is the CRTC's target for every Canadian home.
A line that reaches homes within 1 km may stop short of this lot; bringing it further can cost the buyer. Fixed wireless and LTE need a clear line to the tower, which hills and tall trees can block.
Satellite service doesn't need nearby lines, but it needs a clear view of the sky.
Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us on a grid of about 250 m.
Mobile carriers are those Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) lists for mobile service in its hexagon of about 25 km² holding the lot's middle; ISED counts LTE and 5G together and doesn't say how much of the hexagon a carrier covers, so a listed carrier may not reach the lot, the house or the valley floor. Cell tower positions aren't open data. Ask the carriers, or try a phone on site.
Broadcast transmitters are from ISED's Spectrum Management System extract: the nearest FM and TV transmitters in operation within 50 km of the lot's middle, with their effective radiated power. Whether the bare ground blocks the line is our reading on the elevation model the Winter sun section reads (out to 16 km round the lot; hills beyond it aren't counted); trees, buildings and an antenna's height on the house aren't, and reception also depends on power, distance and the receiver.
Satellite sightlines are our reading: each geostationary satellite's place in the sky from the lot's middle (Telesat's orbital slots, read 2026-10-13) set against the skyline the Winter sun section reads on NRCan's elevation model, in 72 directions out to 16 km. Trees and buildings, which most often decide whether a dish sees its satellite, aren't counted, and a dish can sit higher or elsewhere on the lot. Starlink asks for a clear view of the sky from about 20° above the horizon and picks its own direction: its app's obstruction check on site is the real test.
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 →
§22Soil for farming For reference
Mapped mostly as Class 5 of 7 for farming: hay, pasture and other perennial or specially suited crops only, unless worked very intensively. Main limits: slope, stones.
The record
- Capability class (1 best, 7 none)
- Class 5: about 45% of the lot; Class 4: about 40% of the lot; Class 3: about 10% of the lot
- What limits it
- slope, stones
- Map scale
- 1:20,000 to 1:100,000: 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.
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 →
§23Climate For reference
At Joe Rich Creek, 25 km from the lot, January averages −5.1 °C and July 15.6 °C, with 146 cm of snow and 596 mm of rain and snow a year (1981-2010 normals, based on fewer years than the WMO standard). The frost-free season averages 81 days, from June 10 to August 31. The lot is at about the same elevation as the station. At the Kelowna KLO Road station, 21 km away, fine particles passed the level of BC's air objective on a median of 5.5 days a year (2020 to 2025).
The record
- Nearest climate station at about the lot's elevation
- Joe Rich Creek, 25 km away
- Station elevation
- 875 m
- Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)
- 852 m
- January mean temperature (1981-2010)
- −5.1 °C*
- July mean temperature (1981-2010)
- 15.6 °C*
- Yearly precipitation, rain and snow as water (1981-2010)
- 596 mm*
- Yearly snowfall (1981-2010)
- 146 cm*
- Frost-free period (1981-2010)
- 81 days a year*
- Average last spring frost (1981-2010)
- June 10*
- Average first fall frost (1981-2010)
- August 31*
- Days with snow on the ground, 1 cm or more (1981-2010)
- 115 days a year, 30 days of them in January*
- Days a year over 30 °C (1981-2010)
- 8.8 days, under half a day of them over 35 °C*
- Wettest day in the station's record to 2010
- 63.5 mm of rain and melted snow, June 30, 1935
- Most snow in a day in the station's record to 2010
- 54 cm, November 30, 1977
- Deepest snow on the ground in the station's record to 2010
- 72 cm, January 4, 1993
- Heating degree days, below 18 °C (1981-2010)
- 4,740 a year*
- Growing degree days, above 5 °C (1981-2010)
- 1,302 a year; 536 above 10 °C*
- Period
- 1981-2010
- Plant hardiness zone (regional)
- 5b
- 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 45 days longer than in the same models' 1971-2000
- By the 2050s, winter precipitation falling as snow (model projection, SSP2-4.5)
- About 14 percentage points less of winter's precipitation falling as snow than in the same models' 1971-2000
- Days with fine particles over BC's air objective level
- A median of 5.5 days a year at the Kelowna KLO Road station, 21 km away (2020 to 2025); the most was 25 days in 2021, most in August
- Lightning near the lot (1998-2025 average)
- A cloud-to-ground flash within 10 km on about 9 days a year; 0.15 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.
Winfield is nearer (5.4 km) but sits at 506 m, 346 m below the lot; we use Joe Rich Creek 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 20 or 15 of the 30 years, short of the World Meteorological Organization's standard of nearly all of them. ECCC publishes them as normals; treat them as a rougher guide.
The records are single days measured at the station: the most rain, snow and wind it saw in its record up to 2010 (ECCC's 1981-2010 sets give records over the station's whole history, so some dates are older than 1981). Each is one event, not what to expect in a year, and the lot can get more or less than the station.
ECCC's 1981-2010 normals for this station don't include the lowest temperature recorded, so that is 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 36 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range 30 to 58 across the models), against about 16 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 200 days (range 175 to 220), against about 155; and about 58% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 46% to 62%), against about 72%. 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.
At the Kelowna KLO Road station, 21 km away, fine particles passed the level of BC's 24-hour objective (25 µg/m³) on a median of 5.5 days a year over the 6 years with a full record, 2020 to 2025; the most was 25 days in 2021, most of them in August. Most of these days fell from June to September, the wildfire season (our reading: mostly wildfire smoke).
The days are counted by us from the Province's verified hourly readings: a day counts when the station has 18 or more valid hours and their mean is over 25 µg/m³, the level of BC's Ambient Air Quality Objective for fine particles over 24 hours (the Province judges the objective itself on a year's 98th percentile of daily averages, not on single days), and a year counts when the station ran most of it, July to September included. They are the station's days, not this lot's: smoke drifts unevenly, and a lot up a valley or across a lake from the station can be clearer or smokier.
BC's air quality advisories and the Air Quality Health Index say what the air is like now; a HEPA filter and a home with a ventilation system that can recirculate help on smoky days.
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.
Sources (7)
Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010, 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); Air Quality and Climate Monitoring: Verified Hourly Air Quality and Meteorological Data (fine particulate matter, PM2.5), BC Ministry of Environment and Parks (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Canadian Lightning Detection Network cloud-to-ground flashes (CanCPLDv1), Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Lake Country: 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 →
Wood stoves and wood heat: the Province's rules, local bylaws and winter air →
§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
Lake Country's 2026 residential rate is $5.09 per $1,000 of assessed value, below the middle of BC's 160 municipalities ($6.24): about $5,093 a year on a $1,000,000 home at 2026 rates, before the home owner grant. Confirm with the municipality.
- Municipal $3.32
- Regional district $0.22
- Regional hospital district $0.20
- School (set by the Province) $1.31
- Other $0.04
- Middle of BC's municipalities $6.24
On $500,000: about $2,546 a year; on $1,000,000: about $5,093, at 2026 rates, before the home owner grant.
The record
- Local government
- Lake Country
- Residential rate, 2026
- 5.0928 per $1,000
- Municipal
- 3.3158 per $1,000
- Regional district
- 0.2231 per $1,000
- Regional hospital district
- 0.2046 per $1,000
- School (set by the Province)
- 1.311 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: District of Lake Country'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
Lake Country 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
- Lake Country
- 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 Lake Country RCMP (municipal) reported a crime severity index of 59 in 2025, below BC's 92; up 1% since 2015 (BC unchanged).
- Lake Country 59
- BC 92
The record
- Police service
- The Lake Country RCMP (municipal)
- Crime severity index, 2025
- 59 (BC 92)
- Violent / non-violent index
- 68 / 56 (BC 98 / 91)
- Crime severity index, 2015
- 59 (BC 93)
- Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025
- 181 (BC 281)
- Theft of a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025
- 96 (BC 138)
- Theft from a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025
- 147 (BC 441)
- Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025
- 1,100 (BC 1,531)
- All Criminal Code offences (not traffic), per 100,000 people, 2025
- 3,754 (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 found5
Checked, and nothing on the record here.
§01Road access Nothing found
A mapped public road runs along or through the parcel: Beaver Lake Road (local road, unpaved).
The recordroads on the plan
- Roads along the parcel
- Beaver Lake Road (local road, unpaved); Bennetts Ranch Road (track); an unnamed track (unpaved)
- Nearest public road
- Along the parcel
- Who maintains the road
- No road within 100 m of the lot is on the Ministry of Transportation's inventory, so the roads along it are the District of Lake Country's streets (or private), and the District of Lake Country clears its own streets in winter.
- Snow clearing priority
- The District of Lake Country clears its own streets in winter, but publishes no snow-clearing priority map we can use. Ask the District of Lake Country which priority the street along the lot 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 2026-10-13, © 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).
§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 310 m (our reading: a path on the map isn't a right to cross, so ask the seller who uses it). The Province's register of Crown land reserves draws notation of interest for watershed protection over the lot. No major project in assessment or approved within 10 km on the Environmental Assessment Office's register.
The recordcutblocks and crown land applications on the plan
- 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 310 m (our reading)
- Crown land applications (1 km)
- None
- Quarry, industry, energy or tower tenures (500 m)
- None
- Along the lot line
- Private land along the whole lot line (every side)
- 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 watershed protection, file 0325361: no expiry date, its mapped area takes in the lot; Map reserve (Land Act s. 16) for research or monitoring, file 3412650: no expiry date, 900 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 District of Lake Country what's in progress on and near the lot
- Crown range tenures (1 km)
- Grazing licence (Crown range file RAN077313, 5,151 animal unit months a year: an animal unit month is the forage an average cow with her unweaned calf eats in a month, as the Range Act measures it), 800 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)
- None on the Province's list
- Major projects in assessment (10 km)
- None
- Major projects approved (10 km)
- None
- Reviewed, no assessment needed (10 km)
- Vintage Landing Resort and Wellness Village (golf resort; about 8.5 km away; reviewed Nov 3, 2005: no assessment needed)
- 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 notation along the lot doesn't stop an application for that land, but the agency that holds it is asked first (our reading). A reserve or notation binds Crown land only. Where its mapped area takes in a titled lot, it was most likely drawn round a wider area, or Crown land lies inside the lot's lines, such as a road allowance or the foreshore (our reading); ask FrontCounter BC (1-877-855-3222) what the file covers. A reserve gives no date for when its purpose is used, if ever. Our summary of the Land Act, read 2026-10-12.
Range tenures let a rancher graze livestock or cut hay on Crown land under the Range Act; they cover Crown land only, so one drawn over a titled lot gives no right to graze it (our reading). Most of the Interior is open range: outside a pound district, the Livestock Act (s. 11 (4)) bars a claim for trespass when livestock strays onto land that isn't fenced, so keeping cattle off the lot is the owner's fence to build, and livestock on fenced land may be captured (s. 8). Pound districts are set by regulation and aren't on an open map: ask the regional district whether the lot is in one. Our summary of the Livestock Act, checked 2026-10-07.
Who holds a tenure isn't shown here; the Okanagan Shuswap Natural Resource District of the Ministry of Forests can say who to talk to about cattle and fences.
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.
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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 2026-10-13, © 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); Range Tenure Polygons, Ministry of Forests (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Livestock Act, RSBC 1996, c. 270, ss. 8 and 11 (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-07); BC Transmission Lines (BC Hydro, private and independent power producers' lines), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); OpenStreetMap power lines as of 2026-10-13, © 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).
Power lines near a lot: rights of way, building, trees and health →
Getting power to a lot: who connects it and who pays →
Logging and Crown land use planned near a lot →
Cattle on open range: who fences, and the grazing tenures nearby →
Crown land next door: what it means, and whether you can buy it →
§18Noise sources nearby Nothing found
No railway, no highway or major road and no airport or airstrip mapped within 2 km.
The record
- Nearest railway (2 km)
- None mapped within 2 km
- Nearest highway or major road (2 km)
- None mapped within 2 km
- Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km)
- None mapped within 2 km
- Light at night (within 1 km, 2024)
- None recorded from space; darker than about 94% of BC's homes. The brightest spot within 5 km is about 3.8 km southwest of the lot's middle, at 54.
- Aircraft accidents recorded within 2 km (since 1995)
- 1, per the Transportation Safety Board, in October 2016: a plane, fatal, about 1.2 km from the lot line; TSB occurrence A16P0186.
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 (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.
Aircraft accidents are the Transportation Safety Board of Canada's record of occurrences it classes as accidents in BC since 1995, incidents left out. The TSB gives most positions to the nearest minute of latitude and longitude, up to about 1 km off, or at the aerodrome's own point, so an accident is counted when its given position is within 2 km of the lot line, and never placed on the lot. A count of past accidents, not a measure of risk or noise.
Sources (5)
OpenStreetMap road data as of 2026-10-13, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); OpenStreetMap railways and aerodromes as of 2026-10-13, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); 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); Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Air occurrence data from January 1995 to present, as updated 2026-09-15 (Open Government Licence – Canada); Transportation Safety Board of Canada, investigation report A16P0186 (linked, © Government of Canada).
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 →
§28Questions to ask
Built from what these records found, plus the basics for any purchase. Tick them off as you go (this browser remembers them; nothing is sent to us), or print the page.
For what we found
For what this report flags under Look into: what it found, then the questions it raises and whom to ask. Start here.
The report Wildfire burned this parcel once on record, in 2015. Wildfire history
- Ask the seller or their agent
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- Ask your insurer
The report All or part of this parcel is in the Agricultural Land Reserve. Farmland reserve (ALR)
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The report Mapped water on or within 30 m of the parcel: Clark Creek (on the parcel), 3 unnamed streams and an unnamed wetland. Water and streamside setbacks
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The report The Conservation Data Centre records 2 species or ecosystems at risk on this parcel: trembling aspen / common snowberry / Kentucky bluegrass (Red-listed) and common cattail Marsh (Blue-listed). Wildlife and habitat
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Worth confirming
The report has a lead on these, quoted above the questions it bears on: ask to confirm it holds for this lot.
The report Zone: A1 (Agriculture 1). What you can build (zoning)
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The report We have no open map of the District of Lake Country's water and sewer service, but most lots in its built-up parts are on it, though rural parts often aren't (our reading). Water wells nearby
- Ask the seller or their agent
The report Within about 1 km of the lot, ISED's broadband data records 50/10 Mbps or faster over fixed wireless; no wired service is recorded. Internet
- Ask the seller or their agent
No answer yet
The public records don't answer these: ask.
The seller or their agent
Your lawyer or notary
Your home inspector or a specialist
The school district
Find the people
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
Buying from outside Canada or through a company, or working out the property transfer tax: AcreScout sets out who can buy land in BC and what the transfer tax comes to. Confirm with your lawyer or notary.
§29The parcel record
- Parcel type
- Subdivision
- Owner type
- Private
- Plan
- –
- Mapped area
- 129.94 ha (321.08 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 2019-08-12.
§30Names on the map
5 official place names within 5 km of the lot; the nearest community is Woodsdale.
The names (5)
- Horse Creek, 2 km southwest · official since 1956
- Wrinkly Face Park, 2.2 km east · official since 2010
- Wrinkly Face Cliff, 2.2 km east · official since 1922
- Clark Creek, 2.9 km southwest · official since 1951
- Woodsdale, locality, 3.3 km northwest · official since 1984
Old newspapers mentioning Woodsdale: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3650 Redecopp RoadLake Country, listed 333 days ago | $2,390,000 | 1.46 acres | $1,636,986 an acre | 3.9 km |
| 3618 Redecopp RoadLake Country, listed 333 days ago | $1,090,000 | 1.46 acres | $746,575 an acre | 4 km |
| 3318 Woodsdale RoadLake Country, listed 178 days ago | $1,199,999 | 0.48 acres | – | 4.5 km |
| 3242 Clement RoadLake Country, listed 52 days ago | $1,685,000 | 0.14 acres | – | 4.6 km |
| 11570 Bottom Wood Lake RoadLake Country, listed 180 days ago | $9,000,000 | 3.86 acres | $2,331,606 an acre | 4.7 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.