Grado

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Asturias allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it.

DL 1/2004, art. 124. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2012. 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 Grado. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 19 springs are recorded.

Ground: 40% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 29% practically impermeable; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 15% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 151 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 4,036 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 0.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.4% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 9.8% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,031 mm a year (1971–2000), about 882 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 21.1 °C, about 23.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 43 a year, about 24 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Yernes y Tameza · Belmonte de Miranda · Proaza · Santo Adriano · Salas · Teverga · Candamo · Las Regueras