Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Bizkaia
Balmaseda
Bizkaia · Basque Country · 22 km²
What rustic land in Balmaseda allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
The Basque Country allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.
Ley 2/2006, art. 28. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2004. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
No well or borehole is recorded in Balmaseda. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 96% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 665 ha, in 2022.
- 1.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.4% in the 500-year one.
- 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 89%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,007 mm a year (1971–2000), about 843 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 23.7 °C, about 26.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 18 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.
Around it
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.