Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Lugo
Xermade
Lugo · Galicia · 166 km²
What rustic land in Xermade 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?
Galicia 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 2/2016, arts. 35 y 39. 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 one well or borehole in Xermade. Its depth: 54 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 86% practically impermeable; 13% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 4 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 83 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 13% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 54%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,343 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,157 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 21.6 °C, about 24.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 20 a year, about 8 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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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.