Clear of steep slope and water setbacks

940 m² (100%)

In or within 30 m of mapped water

0%

Steeper than 30%, outside that strip

0%

15 to 30% slope

22%

On designated floodplain (counted as clear)

0%

Median slope

7%

Main slope direction

No main direction: the slopes face several ways; measured by us on NRCan's lidar elevation model (Okanagan survey, 2018; 2 m grid)

Which way it faces

19% south (SE to SW), 0% north (NW to NE), 42% flat; the rest east or west

Terrain stability (Province's map)

The Province's terrain stability mapping doesn't cover this lot: it was mapped from air photos, mostly on forest land, so most towns and farmland aren't on it. That says nothing either way about the ground's stability

Estimated by us on Natural Resources Canada's lidar elevation model, from the Okanagan survey (2018): bare ground with buildings and trees taken out, read here on a 2 m grid, one dot on the plan per cell. Retaining walls, road cuts and ditches count as steep ground, and earthworks since the survey aren't shown. Slopes over 30% usually need a geotechnical engineer's report to build on; 15 to 30% is buildable with more work.

Not counted: zoning setbacks from the lot lines, room for a septic field and well (the Septic section screens for a field), easements and rights of way, and the local government's own slope or hazard development permit areas. What you can build names them where the local government publishes its map. A surveyor and the local government confirm where you can build.

December 21 (shortest day)

7 h 20 min of possible direct sun; 7 h 50 min on open ground

March 21 (about the same on September 21)

11 h 20 min; 12 h on open ground

June 21 (longest day)

14 h 50 min; 16 h 10 min on open ground

Noon sun on December 21

17° above level; the hills due south rise to 3°, 14.7 km away

Highest hills in the winter sun's path

6° above level to the south, 2.2 km away

Measured at

The middle of the lot, ground at about 482 m, from head height

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

About 1,020 kWh a year for each kW of panels (December about 31), on Natural Resources Canada's 1998-2022 sunshine map; the sun on the panel's face is 3.73 kWh/m² a day over the year, 1.34 in December

Water the ground lets you see (16 km)

Okanagan Lake to the east-northeast, from about 4.7 km away

Highest skyline

11° above level to the northwest, 1.4 km away

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 8% of the direct sun on December 21 and about 8% 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.

Dam: Keefe Pond

About 570 m from the lot line; embankment, unknown, 2.7 m high; the Dam Safety Regulation applies, without its Part 3 duties; failure consequence class Low

Dikes nearby

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

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

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

0.090 g

Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years

0.037 g

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

0.20 g

The same value in city centres

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

Tsunami

More than 2 km from the ocean shore, so the Province's tsunami notification zones, which are for the coast, don't bear on it

These are the 2020 National Building Code's reference values at the lot's centre, on firm ground (site class C). Soft soil, fill or a slope can make shaking stronger; the site class and the values a building is designed for come from the building official or a geotechnical engineer.

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

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

On record on the lot or within 100 m

0

On record within 1 km

0

On record within 5 km

6

Nearest

1.3 km from the lot: a rock irregular slide, 22 Jan 2016 (listed under “South Crescent rock slide”)

Kinds within 5 km

rock fall 3, earth slide 2, rock irregular slide 1

With a date

1 of 6; the latest 22 Jan 2016 (rock irregular slide, 1.3 km from the lot)

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

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

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

Health region (regional figure, not this lot)

Okanagan

Homes tested here

109

At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline)

19 (17%)

At or above 600 Bq/m³

3

Across BC

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

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

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

Open sites (active or suspected) within 500 m

0

Open sites within 2 km

1

Closed sites within 2 km

1

Tsinstikeptum 10 reserve (Westbank First Nation)

1.3 km from the lot. Active: contamination confirmed, work under way; medium priority for action. Found or suspected: metals in surface water. Detailed testing completed. Remediation / risk management planned. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00006763.

Tsinstikeptum 10 reserve (Westbank First Nation)

1.9 km from the lot. Closed: no further action needed. Found or suspected: petroleum hydrocarbons, PAHs and metals in other medium. Detailed testing completed. No further action required. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00006352.

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

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

Closed means the custodian found no further action needed after testing, cleanup or risk management; it doesn't always mean nothing is left in the ground. The priority class is the federal ranking of its own sites for funding and action, not a measure of risk to neighbours.

Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.

At-risk species or ecosystems on the parcel

None recorded

Within 500 m

Painted Turtle - Intermountain - Rocky Mountain Population (Blue-listed)

Wide-ranging species mapped over it

None

Secured records in the wider area

No

Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Ungulate winter range over the parcel

mule deer

Proposed Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Proposed ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Federal critical habitat over the lot

Great Basin Gophersnake: somewhere in the 10 km square that takes in the lot, not mapped closer

Sensitive ecosystems mapped on the lot

None: the inventory maps no sensitive ecosystem on the lot

Sensitive ecosystem mapping

Central Okanagan TEM (1:20,000)

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.

Wildlife Habitat Areas and ungulate winter ranges are set under the Forest and Range Practices Act and mainly limit logging and range use on Crown land; on private land they don't stop building by themselves, but they show what uses the land.

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

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

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

The Sensitive Ecosystems Inventory maps rare and fragile ecosystems from air photos, mostly at 1:20,000, some checked on the ground; a polygon often holds a mix of ecosystems, and the land may have changed since the photos were taken. It's a planning tool, not a site assessment. Councils in the Okanagan, on east Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands and elsewhere draw environmental development permit areas from it, so ask the local government whether one covers the lot, and a qualified environmental professional what is on the ground. Our summary, checked 2026-10-11.

Cutblocks applied for (1 km)

0

Approved, not yet logged (1 km)

0

Logged in the last 5 years (1 km)

0

Woodlots and community forests (1 km)

Community forest agreement K1P, Crown land (Schedule B): 850 m from the lot line

Crown land applications (1 km)

None

Quarry, industry, energy or tower tenures (500 m)

None

Along the lot line

No parcel mapped along about 50% of the lot line (the south and west sides), most often a road allowance, water or Crown land the parcel map doesn't draw (our reading); private land along about 50% of the lot line (the north and east sides)

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

Local development applications

Not covered here: we read applications only where the local government publishes them as open data (the CSRD, the City of Surrey, the City of Abbotsford and the District of Squamish). Ask the City of West Kelowna what's in progress on and near the lot

Reserve land (500 m)

The Tsinstikeptum 10 reserve (Westbank First Nation), 260 m from the lot line

Nearest power line (200 m)

About 150 m from the lot line

Power lines within 200 m

On the Province's map: a line, about 150 m away. None on OpenStreetMap

Oil and gas pipelines (200 m)

None within 200 m on the BC Energy Regulator's permit map

Gravel pits, quarries and mine permits (2 km)

A sand and gravel pit (Westside Pit (city of Kelowna), permit G-4-125), about 160 m from the lot line, authorised to 2051; A sand and gravel pit (Westlake Pit, permit G-4-025), about 370 m from the lot line, authorised to 2031

Permitted discharges to air, water and land (2 km)

A vehicle dismantling and recycling yard, about 760 m from the lot line (position given to about 100 m), registered under the Vehicle Dismantling and Recycling Industry Environmental Planning Regulation (authorization 100312, 2008); An asphalt plant, about 920 m from the lot line, may discharge to air, registered under the Asphalt Plant Regulation (authorization 3102, 1997); A beverage plant, about 1,200 m from the lot line, may discharge to water or land (effluent), under a permit (authorization 16477, 2001); A vehicle dismantling and recycling yard, about 1,500 m from the lot line, registered under the Vehicle Dismantling and Recycling Industry Environmental Planning Regulation (authorization 100442, 2008); A concrete plant, about 1,600 m from the lot line, may discharge to land (refuse), under a permit (authorization 11875, 1994); and 2 more

Major projects in assessment (10 km)

None

Major projects approved (10 km)

None

Reviewed, no assessment needed (10 km)

None

Closed or not reviewable (10 km)

None

Cutblocks are from the province's forest tenure records, which cover Crown forest licences and woodlots, not logging on private land. Crown land applications are on the province's tenure register; the Applications, Comments and Reasons for Decision site takes public comments on them. Mineral and placer claims are in their own section above.

A woodlot licence gives its holder the sole right to log the Crown land in it (Schedule B) for up to 20 years, and the holder is usually offered a replacement in the licence's tenth year (Forest Act ss. 45, 46); a community forest agreement or a First Nations woodland licence does the same for 25 to 99 years (ss. 43.3, 43.55). Logging there follows the licence's plan. Their cutblocks are in the counts above. Who holds a licence isn't shown here; the Thompson-Okanagan Natural Resource Region of the Ministry of Forests can say who to talk to. Our summary of the Forest Act and the regulation, read 2026-10-11.

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.

Land use on reserve land is decided by the First Nation, under its own land code or laws or its bylaws under the Indian Act, not by the local government's zoning bylaw, so the local government's zoning and development applications don't say what may be built there. Ask Westbank First Nation's lands office what's planned there. Our summary, checked 2026-10-07.

Major projects are those large enough to need a provincial environmental assessment: mines, power plants, pipelines, transmission lines, highways, ports, dams and resorts, among others. Each is on the Environmental Assessment Office's register at a single point, the location it gives for the project. A mine, pipeline, transmission line or road can reach well past that point, so a project listed 8 km away can still pass the lot, and one placed beyond 10 km isn't listed here. Each project's page on the EAO's site has its maps, documents and comment periods; distances are measured by us from the lot line to the point. Smaller projects (subdivisions, smaller pits and quarries, and other works under the assessment thresholds) aren't on this register.

Power lines are from two maps read together: the Province's map of high-voltage transmission lines (BC Hydro's, private and independent producers' lines), which leaves voltages out, and OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map lines and record the voltage where it's known. Smaller distribution lines along streets aren't included. Distances are measured by us from the lot line to the mapped line, which can sit some metres off the real one. The line's right of way, and what it lets the line's owner do on the land, is set by the easement on title, which is the definitive record: check it in the title search, and ask BC Hydro (or the line's owner) about clearances for building and trees.

Mine permits are from the Province's map of Mines Act permit areas for regional mines: sand and gravel pits, quarries, placer mines, coal and mineral exploration, on Crown or private land. The area drawn is what the permit covers, often larger than the ground worked at any one time, and distances are measured by us from the lot line to its edge. Large mines are on a separate map that isn't open data, so they aren't listed here; the major projects in this section include those under environmental assessment.

Under the Mines Act (s. 10) no work may start at a pit, quarry or mine without a permit, which sets its plan and the reclamation of the land when work ends; a pit 'not started' may begin under its permit. Hours, truck routes, dust and noise are often set by the local government's soil removal or gravel bylaw: ask the regional district or city, and the Ministry's regional office about the permit.

Permitted discharges are from the Province's list of active waste discharge authorizations under the Environmental Management Act: permits, approvals and operational certificates, and sites registered under its regulations and codes of practice (sewage, fuel storage, vehicle recycling, concrete, asphalt, composting and others). Each is one point the Province gives for the site, which can be a plant's office or an outfall rather than the ground worked; distances are measured by us from the lot line to that point. Metro Vancouver issues its own air quality permits, which aren't on this list, and the Province's Site Registry of contaminated sites charges for searches and isn't shown here.

An authorization sets what may be discharged, how much and on what conditions; it doesn't mean the site is out of compliance. The Province's Authorization Management System search shows each authorization's documents by its number. Odour, dust and noise are often for the local government too: ask the regional district or city, and the Province's environmental protection office about the authorization.

Nearest railway (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Nearest highway or major road (2 km)

Okanagan Highway (Highway 97), a highway, about 690 m from the lot line

Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Distances only, not a measured noise level; noise depends on traffic, trains per day and terrain. Measured by us in a straight line from the lot line to the mapped centreline of the track or road, or to the edge of an airport's mapped grounds (to its point where only a point is mapped); a mapped line can sit some metres off the real one.

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.

Community water

No open map of the City of West Kelowna's water service: ask the City of West Kelowna whether the lot is on it

Wells within 2 km

20

Median depth

79 m

Median tested yield

32 L/min (14 wells tested)

Median water level below ground

26 m

Aquifer 304 under the lot

West side of Okanagan Lake, west of Kelowna: fractured sedimentary rock; productivity low, vulnerability moderate, demand moderate; 156 wells linked, median depth 110 m

Aquifer 306 under the lot

East of Westbank, parallel to Mount Boucher: unconfined sand and gravel (late glacial outwash); productivity moderate, vulnerability moderate, demand low; 30 wells linked, median depth 36.3 m

Observation well 411

in aquifer 304, 9.9 km from the lot's middle: water level rising about 68 cm a year over 2014 to 2023; rising about 68 cm a year over 2013 to 2023; well 121 m deep (the Province's trend, records to December 2023)

Groundwater tested 8.9 km away

At the Province's observation well 018, in aquifer 462: within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L: nitrate (as nitrogen) under detection; 1 sample, 2001. Not this lot's water: test your own well.

Drinking-water protection zone

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

Water systems' wells and intakes within 300 m

None on the Province's list

Community watershed

None over the lot on the Province's map

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

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

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

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

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

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

Community sewer

No open map of the City of West Kelowna's sewer service: ask the City of West Kelowna whether the lot is on it

Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m

None recorded within 30 m

Mapped water within 30 m

None mapped

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

440 m² (47%)

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

600 m² (65%)

Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)

600 m² (65%)

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

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

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

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

Nearest hospital

Kelowna General Hospital: 5 km

Next nearest hospital

Penticton Regional Hospital: 44 km

Emergency departments and walk-in clinics

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

School catchment

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

Nearest public elementary school

Mar Jok Elementary, West Kelowna: 700 m

Nearest public secondary school

Mount Boucherie Secondary, West Kelowna: 2.3 km

Nearest public school with early French immersion

Hudson Road Elementary, West Kelowna: 1.4 km

Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone)

de l'Anse-au-sable, Kelowna: 7.1 km

Independent schools within 10 km

7

Nearest licensed group child care

The Lilyput Centre For Kids: 900 m

Licensed group child care within 1 km

2: by the ages their operators list, 1 under 36 months, 2 for 30 months to 5 years and 1 school age; all take part in the fee reduction (CCFRI)

Licensed group child care within 2 km

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

Licensed family child care within about 2 km

5, in the providers' homes

Nearest grocery store

Nesters Market: 1.8 km

Grocery stores within 10 km

26

Nearest fire station

West Kelowna Fire Rescue Station 33: 1.1 km, on the Province's list

Nearest fire hydrant

Not said: we have no open hydrant map of the City of West Kelowna; ask its fire department where the nearest hydrant is

Nearest ambulance station

Ambulance station 340, Kelowna: 4.7 km

Nearest transfer station or landfill

Planet Earth Recycling: 1.5 km

Nearest post office

Towne Centre: 5.2 km

Nearest gas station

Chevron: 1 km

Nearest transit stop

Westlake Rd at Caledonia Way: 160 m, route 29; 12 departures on a weekday, none on Saturday, none on Sunday (BC Transit's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)

Transit stops within 500 m

2

Nearest park or protected area

Bear Creek Park, a provincial park: 6 km from the lot line

Nearest recreation site or trail

Smith Creek Area, on Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list: 7.5 km from the lot line

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

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

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

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

Child care is from the Province's Child Care Map Data, listed October 11, 2026: licensed facilities the Province funds, so a licensed one without that funding, or a licence-not-required carer, isn't on it. The ages served and any space are what each operator reports, and many list no ages. A space reported weeks ago may be gone: ask the facility about spaces and wait lists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Confirm services with the local government.

Best speed recorded within about 1 km

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over a wired line (cable, fibre or DSL)

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over fixed wireless

50/10 Mbps or faster

LTE mobile within about 1 km

recorded

Nearest place with 50/10 Mbps or faster

within about 1 km (about 100 m)

Data

ISED National Broadband Data, May 2026

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

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

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

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

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

Nearest climate station at about the lot's elevation

Kelowna East, 12 km away

Station elevation

491 m

Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)

483 m

January mean temperature (1981-2010)

−2.3 °C*

July mean temperature (1981-2010)

20.4 °C*

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

414 mm*

Yearly snowfall (1981-2010)

84 cm*

Days a year over 30 °C (1981-2010)

22 days, 2.1 days of them over 35 °C*

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

3,584 a year*

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

2,190 a year; 1,192 above 10 °C*

Period

1981-2010

Plant hardiness zone (regional)

7a

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

About 22 more days over 30 °C a year than in the same models' 1971-2000

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

A longest frost-free run about 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, 6.9 km away (2020 to 2025); the most was 25 days in 2021, most in August

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.

Kelowna Burnett's Nursery is nearer (5.6 km) but sits at 350 m, 133 m below the lot; we use Kelowna East because it is at about the lot's elevation.

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

The hardiness zone is from Natural Resources Canada's 2025 map, read by us on a grid of about 2 to 3 km: near a zone's edge, or well above or below the valley around it, the lot may fall in the next zone. It is a guide to which plants survive the winter, not a frost date.

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

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

A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below or above a base, added up over the year. Heating degree days below 18 °C follow how much a home needs heating: a place with 5,000 needs roughly half again the heat of one with 3,300, for the same house. Growing degree days above 5 °C (10 °C for warm-season crops such as corn and grapes) follow how much warmth plants get to grow.

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

The models work on a grid of about 9 by 6 km, which averages valley floors with the slopes around them, so their own figures can sit well off a station's normals and aren't comparable with them. The models' own figures here, for setting against each other only: about 42 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range 36 to 66 across the models), against about 20 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 215 days (range 185 to 240), against about 170; and about 48% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 36% to 52%), against about 62%. The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figure; it isn't a range of the change.

At the Kelowna KLO Road station, 6.9 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.

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.

Place

West Kelowna

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.

Local government

West Kelowna

Residential rate, 2026

4.9615 per $1,000

Municipal

3.14015 per $1,000

Regional district

0.26725 per $1,000

Regional hospital district

0.2048 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.

Police service

The West Kelowna RCMP (municipal)

Crime severity index, 2025

78 (BC 92)

Violent / non-violent index

83 / 77 (BC 98 / 91)

Crime severity index, 2015

73 (BC 93)

Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025

236 (BC 281)

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

139 (BC 138)

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

296 (BC 441)

Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025

1,435 (BC 1,531)

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

5,162 (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: that shows up as a notice on the title. Ask the seller for the Property Disclosure Statement, and your lawyer for the title search.