Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Castellón/Castelló
Vilafamés
Castellón/Castelló · Valencian Community · 71 km²
What rustic land in Vilafamés 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 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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2003. 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 35 wells and boreholes in Vilafamés. Half of the 29 with a depth found water at 23–150 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 67% porous aquifer, high productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 7.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 9% in the 500-year one.
- 4.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 1.3% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 67%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 438 mm a year (1971–2000), about 378 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 31.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 13 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.
Around it
la Pobla Tornesa · Borriol · Sant Joan de Moró · Vall d'Alba · Costur · les Useres / Useras · Cabanes
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.