3641 Hwy 97B SE, Salmon Arm

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

0.080 g

Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years

0.029 g

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

0.18 g

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

0.10 g on stiff soil (site class D), 0.11 g on soft soil, about 40% 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 13 within 100 km

Largest within 100 km

M3.7 in September 1993, about 100 km away (NRCan: Southern British Columbia near Merritt)

Nearest of magnitude 3 or more

M3.5 in April 1989, about 25 km away (NRCan: North 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.

On record within 5 km

0

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.

Open sites (active or suspected) within 500 m

0

Open sites within 2 km

0

Closed sites within 2 km

1

Salmon Arm Training Area

1.9 km from the lot. Closed: no further action needed. Found or suspected: metals in soil. Confirmatory sampling completed. No further action required. Federal custodian: National Defence; site 16439011.

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) sites DND lists for this place

One site we place in Salmon Arm by name (our reading): Salmon Arm - Rifle Range (in assessment). DND publishes no locations, so whether one reaches the lot is unclear: ask DND (uxocanada@forces.gc.ca).

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.

DND's list gives each site's name, province and status only: no map, outline or coordinates. So a report can't say whether a site reaches a lot; we place each site in a place by the name DND gives it (our reading), and a site named for a town may lie outside its limits. If you see something that could be UXO, don't touch it: remember where it is, leave the area and call 911 or the local police. DND asks anyone planning to build, demolish, work the ground or extract resources in a former military area to contact it first; some work needs UXO-qualified people on site or on call. (Our summary of DND's UXO pages, read 2026-10-13.)

Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.

Nearest hospital

Shuswap Lake General Hospital, Salmon Arm: 4.2 km

Next nearest hospital

Vernon Jubilee Hospital: 48 km

Nearest emergency department

Shuswap Lake General Hospital, Salmon Arm: 4.2 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Nearest walk-in clinic

Salmon Arm Medical Clinic: 4.3 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Fri 09:00 to 19:30, Sat 09:00 to 14:00. Note that hours are subject to physician availability and patient volume. Closed for break 16:00 - 17:00. Statutory holiday hours may be available. Call to confirm

Nearest pharmacy

Askew's Pharmacy, Salmon Arm: 3.4 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Sat 09:00 to 18:00. Closed statutory holidays

Nearest late-night or 24-hour pharmacy

Shoppers Drug Mart, Salmon Arm: 5.2 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Sun 09:00 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

South Canoe, Salmon Arm: 1.2 km

Nearest public secondary school

South Canoe, Salmon Arm: 1.2 km

Nearest public school with early French immersion

Shuswap Middle School, Salmon Arm: 2.4 km

Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone)

Collines-d'or, Kamloops: 80 km

Independent schools within 10 km

3

Nearest licensed group child care

None within 2 km on the Province's list; the nearest is 2.2 km away

Licensed family child care within about 2 km

None on the Province's list

Nearest grocery store

Askew's Foods - Uptown Salmon Arm: 3.4 km

Grocery stores within 10 km

6

Nearest fire station

Salmon Arm Fire Department Station 2: 2.4 km, on the Province's list

Nearest fire hydrant

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

Nearest ambulance station

Ambulance station 332, Salmon Arm: 3 km

Nearest police detachment or station

Salmon Arm RCMP: 3.7 km

Nearest transfer station or landfill

Salmon Arm Landfill: 700 m

Nearest post office

Salmon Arm Main Post Office: 4.4 km

Postal area

V0E: Canada Post marks it a rural postal area (a 0 as the second character): mail mostly goes to a post office box or a rural route box, not to the door, and couriers often add a charge for rural postal codes (our reading).

Nearest gas station

Co-op: 3.1 km

Nearest Service BC office

Service BC - Salmon Arm: 3.9 km

Nearest airport with screened airline flights

Kelowna airport (YLW): 82 km

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

328 km

Nearest transit stop

None within 1 km; the nearest is 30 St SE & 1361 Blk: 2 km, route 22; 13 departures on a weekday, 11 on Saturday, 9 on Sunday (BC Transit's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)

Nearest park or protected area

Upper Violet Creek Park, a provincial park: 6.2 km from the lot line

Nearest recreation site or trail

Larch Hills Trails, on Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list: 8.6 km from the lot line

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Confirm services with the local government.

Best speed recorded within about 1 km

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over a wired line (cable, fibre or DSL)

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over fixed wireless

50/10 Mbps or faster

LTE mobile within about 1 km

recorded

Nearest place with 50/10 Mbps or faster

within about 1 km (about 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 (ISED, reported, not a guarantee at the lot)

Nearest FM radio transmitter

CKVS-FM, 93.7 MHz low-power FM, 15 W, at Salmon Arm, about 13 km to the north-west; the bare ground doesn't block the line to it (our reading, terrain only)

Nearest TV transmitter

CHSH-TV-2, TV channel 13, 18 W, near Chase (position given only roughly)

Bell satellite TV dish sightline

82° W sits 22° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 20°; 91.1° W sits 26° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 25° (terrain only; our reading)

Shaw Direct satellite TV dish sightline

107.3° W sits 31° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 30°; 111.1° W sits 31° up to the south, clear of the hills by 30° (terrain only; our reading)

Starlink: sky hidden by the hills

The hills stay under 20° all round, so terrain shouldn't block it (trees and buildings not counted; our reading)

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

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

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

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

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

Mobile carriers are those Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) lists for mobile service in its hexagon of about 25 km² holding the lot's middle; ISED counts LTE and 5G together and doesn't say how much of the hexagon a carrier covers, so a listed carrier may not reach the lot, the house or the valley floor. Cell tower positions aren't open data. Ask the carriers, or try a phone on site.

Broadcast transmitters are from ISED's Spectrum Management System extract: the nearest FM and TV transmitters in operation within 50 km of the lot's middle, with their effective radiated power. Whether the bare ground blocks the line is our reading on the elevation model the Winter sun section reads (out to 16 km round the lot; hills beyond it aren't counted); trees, buildings and an antenna's height on the house aren't, and reception also depends on power, distance and the receiver.

Satellite sightlines are our reading: each geostationary satellite's place in the sky from the lot's middle (Telesat's orbital slots, read 2026-10-13) set against the skyline the Winter sun section reads on NRCan's elevation model, in 72 directions out to 16 km. Trees and buildings, which most often decide whether a dish sees its satellite, aren't counted, and a dish can sit higher or elsewhere on the lot. Starlink asks for a clear view of the sky from about 20° above the horizon and picks its own direction: its app's obstruction check on site is the real test.

Capability class (1 best, 7 none)

Class 5: about 70% of the lot; Class 4: about 30% of the lot

What limits it

slope, soil holds little water

Map scale

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

Mapped

1960s to 1990s (digitised 2015)

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

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

Nearest climate station

Salmon Arm Airport, 600 m away

Station elevation

527 m

Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)

533 m

January mean temperature (1991-2020)

−2.6 °C

July mean temperature (1991-2020)

20.6 °C

Yearly precipitation, rain and snow as water (1991-2020)

654 mm*

Yearly snowfall (1991-2020)

203 cm*

Frost-free period (1991-2020)

160 days a year*

Average last spring frost (1991-2020)

April 28*

Average first fall frost (1991-2020)

October 6*

Lowest temperature recorded, 1991-2020

−27.8 °C (1996)

Days a year over 30 °C (1991-2020)

26 days, 2.7 days of them over 35 °C*

Highest temperature recorded, 1991-2020

39.9 °C (1998)

Wettest day recorded, 1991-2020

54 mm of rain and melted snow, July 23, 2014

Most snow in a day recorded, 1991-2020

41 cm, January 4, 2009

Deepest snow on the ground recorded, 1991-2020

87 cm, January 25, 1993

Strongest gust recorded, 1991-2020

102 km/h, February 9, 1996; gusts of 90 km/h or more on under half a day a year*

Heating degree days, below 18 °C (1991-2020)

3,601 a year*

Growing degree days, above 5 °C (1991-2020)

2,144 a year; 1,160 above 10 °C*

Period

1991-2020

Plant hardiness zone (regional)

6a

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

About 18 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 12 percentage points less of winter's precipitation falling as snow than in the same models' 1971-2000

Air monitoring station measuring fine particles

None within 30 km with 5 or more full years of readings

Lightning near the lot (1998-2025 average)

A cloud-to-ground flash within 10 km on about 9 days a year; 0.22 flashes per km² a year, more than at 3 in 4 BC homes

Normals are 30-year averages at the station, not readings for this lot. In BC's mountains a few hundred metres of elevation, a north-facing slope or a lakeshore can change winters a lot: a hillside lot can be much colder and snowier than a valley station.

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 1991-2020. Each is one event, not what to expect in a year, and the lot can get more or less than the station.

ECCC's 1991-2020 normals for this station don't include days with snow on the ground, 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 30 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range 24 to 49 across the models), against about 12 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 190 days (range 160 to 205), against about 145; and about 70% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 58% to 74%), against about 82%. The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figure; it isn't a range of the change.

Frost dates are averages: in about half of years the last spring frost comes later than the date shown, and frost pockets in hollows and valley bottoms get it later still.

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

Recent years have run warmer than the 1991-2020 averages in much of BC. Ask neighbours or the local government about snow on the road and who clears it.

Health region (regional figure, not this lot)

Thompson Cariboo Shuswap

Homes tested here

109

At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline)

7 (6.4%)

At or above 600 Bq/m³

None

Across BC

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

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

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

Local government

Salmon Arm

Residential rate, 2026

5.4009 per $1,000

Municipal

3.2941 per $1,000

Regional district

0.1953 per $1,000

Regional hospital district

0.2347 per $1,000

School (set by the Province)

1.6385 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.

Place

Salmon Arm

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.

Police service

The Salmon Arm RCMP (municipal)

Crime severity index, 2025

78 (BC 92)

Violent / non-violent index

58 / 86 (BC 98 / 91)

Crime severity index, 2015

52 (BC 93)

Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025

212 (BC 281)

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

264 (BC 138)

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

132 (BC 441)

Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025

1,123 (BC 1,531)

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

6,295 (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.