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Canada-wide environmental layers: wetlands, fire/flood/storm hazards, protected areas, and species-at-risk habitat - with deep parcel, wetland, forest, and soil detail.
Type an address or GPS coordinates from Google Maps, then press Enter/Search or choose a suggestion. Address suggestions are restricted to Canada.
Click the map to add a location - PID lookup in NS & NB, drop-pin elsewhere in Canada
Add up to 10 locations, then click "Analyze" to get wetland, forest, soil, species, and hazard data
For a deeper dive on any parcel, open the relevant provincial portal - each lets you pan, zoom and overlay additional layers beyond the snapshot returned by this tool.
Column headers stay short for readability. Full names:
Combined fire + flood + storm score weighted by recency (events in the last 10 years count 2x more than events 20+ years ago) within the configured search radius:
Federal designation under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) for any critical-habitat polygon overlapping the parcel:
The Canadian Protected & Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD) tags each polygon with an IUCN protected-area category indicating the level of allowed human use:
Lower roman numerals = stricter protection; OECMs are working landscapes that still deliver biodiversity outcomes.
Standard Canadian Wetland Classification System types, used by the federal Canadian Wetland Inventory and most provincial inventories (e.g. AB AMWI, NB WAWA):
Parcel-level wetland coverage grade derived from raster wet-areas mapping (NS) or polygon-overlap analysis elsewhere:
The species column on NS properties uses NS Forest Inventory composition codes. Each 4-character group is a 2-letter species code + 2-digit percentage.
Example: RS06BF02WP01RM01 means: RS 6% Red Spruce · BF 2% Balsam Fir · WP 1% White Pine · RM 1% Red Maple.
NS Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) soil type codes:
Example: 2|1 [G] = Fresh Coarse Loamy / Dry Sandy on Glacial Till.
The Soil Group column on NS properties is the NS Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) soil group, a 14-code system that pairs moisture regime with texture / origin.
Moisture vocab: Dry < Fresh (well-drained, moderate) < Moist < Wet < Flooded. For development/appraisal, 2 (Fresh Loamy) and 10 (Glacial) are the most favourable; 4-6, 13 indicate likely wetland or foundation issues.
Source: backend/services/_shared/codes/ns_soil_groups.json (NS FEC).
The Ecosection column on NS properties is a 4-letter NS Ecological Land Classification code: 1-2 letters for drainage class + 2 letters for landform.
Example: WMHO = Well-to-medium-drained · Hummocky terrain (rolling mound-and-hollow topography from glacial deposition).
Hierarchy: Ecoregion (broad climate zone) → Ecodistrict (geology / topography sub-area) → Ecosection (drainage + landform pairing at parcel scale).
Aggregated from federal datasets and provincial open-data portals across all 10 provinces; coverage depth varies by province.