les Useres / Useras

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Valencian Community requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2021, art. 211. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1986. 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?

IGME records 3 wells and boreholes in les Useres / Useras. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 115–252 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 50% porous aquifer, high productivity; 32% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 888 ha, in 2022.
• 1.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 7.7% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 54%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 436 mm a year (1971–2000), about 377 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 32 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 15 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Atzeneta del Maestrat · Costur · Vilafamés · Vall d'Alba · Figueroles · Culla · Sierra Engarcerán · Llucena / Lucena del Cid