We have scored the climate risk of the 11.370 buildings in Ferrol using Cadastre data, satellite imagery and climate projections, and added it up by area, street and watercourse.
Level of the highest hazard in each 250 m area by 2050: flooding, heat, wildfire, wind or ground movement.
Position among the 8.217 municipalities: further right means more risk. These are figures for the municipality as a whole, the same for everyone; they may differ from those for the typical building. Compare with others →
It comes from matching each building with its neighbourhood, its street, the nearest watercourse and its surroundings.
Around homes with less than 2 % tree cover, the surface in summer is 1,5 °C above the median for Ferrol; with more than 40 % tree cover, 3,9 °C below. 4.617 homes are in surroundings with almost no trees.
Ground surface temperature (Landsat), not air temperature. More trees usually go with less asphalt and lower density: this is a correlation, not a measure of the effect of planting trees.
These are 3.763 buildings right next to vegetation that can burn. Of these, 2 are blocks of flats with 43 homes, where evacuation is harder.
Proximity to woodland and to burnt areas (ESA WorldCover, EFFIS). It does not measure the state of the vegetation or any firebreaks.
Schools whose surroundings are at least 1 °C hotter than the municipal median in summer. They are the first candidates for shade and tree-lined playgrounds.
Ground surface temperature (Landsat) around the building closest to the OpenStreetMap point.
This is the median of its 235 buildings measured by satellite (Copernicus EGMS, 2020-2024); 82 are sinking 2 mm a year or more. For the municipality as a whole, the median is −1,8 mm/yr.
It is not dangerous in itself and we do not know the cause. It is worth keeping an eye on: cracks, and whether the sinking continues.
They are in the area that can flood once every 500 years according to the official maps (SNCZI); 32 of them are in the 100-year area. Next to Río da Sardiña, 21 homes are inside the flood zone, less than 100 m from the watercourse.
According to the Ministry’s studies, this is an annual probability of 0,2 % (500 years) or 1 % (100 years), not “once every 500 years”: it can happen two years in a row. Small gullies are not always mapped.
The 39.417 homes in Ferrol by the level of their building. Tap a hazard to see it on the map.
The same data for all 8.217 municipalities in Spain. Choose what to compare with: municipalities of a similar size, the province, the region or the whole of Spain.
Compared with the 365 municipalities with between 20.000 and 100.000 inhabitants. The bar shows where Ferrol stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | Ferrol | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 0 nights | 28 nights | lower than 94 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 1 nights | 74 nights | lower than 95 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 23,5 °C | 32,0 °C | lower than 99 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 0,6 °C | 0,7 °C | lower than 60 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,3% | 2,0% | lower than 71 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 1,2% | 0,0% | higher than 83 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 1,8 | 4,9 | lower than 98 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 34 m/s | 29 m/s | higher than 92 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,9 mm/yr | −0,7 mm/yr | sinking faster than 96 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 30% | 19% | higher than 100 % of them |
Compared with the 93 municipalities in A Coruña province. The bar shows where Ferrol stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | Ferrol | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 0 nights | 0 nights | higher than 50 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 1 nights | 0 nights | higher than 88 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 23,5 °C | 24,9 °C | lower than 83 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 0,6 °C | 0,2 °C | higher than 80 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,3% | 1,6% | lower than 78 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 1,2% | 0,1% | higher than 75 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 1,8 | 1,8 | lower than 60 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 34 m/s | 35 m/s | lower than 59 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,9 mm/yr | −1,4 mm/yr | sinking faster than 92 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 30% | 31% | lower than 59 % of them |
Compared with the 313 municipalities in Galicia. The bar shows where Ferrol stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | Ferrol | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 0 nights | 0 nights | lower than 51 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 1 nights | 0 nights | higher than 79 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 23,5 °C | 26,6 °C | lower than 94 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 0,6 °C | 0,2 °C | higher than 80 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,3% | 1,4% | lower than 74 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 1,2% | 0,8% | higher than 54 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 1,8 | 2,0 | lower than 71 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 34 m/s | 34 m/s | higher than 55 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,9 mm/yr | −1,4 mm/yr | sinking faster than 93 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 30% | 35% | lower than 66 % of them |
Compared with the 8.217 municipalities in Spain. The bar shows where Ferrol stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | Ferrol | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 0 nights | 0 nights | lower than 74 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 1 nights | 8 nights | lower than 76 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 23,5 °C | 32,4 °C | lower than 99 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 0,6 °C | 0,1 °C | higher than 80 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,3% | 0,6% | lower than 53 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 1,2% | 0,0% | higher than 84 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 1,8 | 4,6 | lower than 98 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 34 m/s | 31 m/s | higher than 84 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,9 mm/yr | −0,4 mm/yr | sinking faster than 98 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 30% | 28% | higher than 55 % of them |
Values for the municipality as a whole (median over built-up land). The position is the percentage of municipalities in the group with a lower value: it is not a probability of damage. 2050 = SSP3-7.0 scenario.
Semicolon-separated tables with a decimal comma, ready to open in a spreadsheet or a GIS (areas include longitude and latitude).
What this is and what it is not. It is a guide-only analysis made with public data and models, with the same rules for every municipality. It does not replace official maps, a technical study or emergency plans. For your own building, look up its report.
Building by building. We have scored the 11.370 Cadastre buildings in Ferrol with the same rules as each building’s report on Mi Riesgo Climático, from 0 to 100 for each hazard: low (up to 25), medium (up to 50), high (up to 75) and very high.
Aggregates only. To protect each owner, no individual building appears here: only 250 m areas with at least 3 buildings, and neighbourhoods and streets with at least 60 homes.
Wildfire and flooding. Wildfire counts proximity to woodland or scrubland of at least 100 ha (not urban parks or tree-lined streets). For flooding, besides the official flood zones, a building that was inside a real flood observed by satellite (Copernicus EMS, such as the 2024 DANA storm) is at least at high level.
2050. Average for 2041-2070 under an intermediate-to-high emissions scenario (SSP3-7.0). Tropical nights and heat change with the climate; flooding, wildfire, wind and ground movement are shown with current data when there is no projection.
Rivers and streams. Named watercourses from OpenStreetMap. We count the homes less than 50 and 100 m from the watercourse and, separately, how many of them are in an official flood zone (SNCZI). Being close does not mean they will flood, and having no official zone does not mean they cannot.
Neighbourhoods and streets. Neighbourhoods and districts from OpenStreetMap; streets according to the Cadastre address. The street heat index combines tropical nights in 2050 (35 %), heat island (30 %), lack of trees (20 %) and buildings from before 1980 (15 %).
Sources. Cadastre (buildings and addresses); ERA5 + CHELSA/CMIP6 MPI-ESM1-2-HR and AdapteCCa (tropical nights and temperature); Landsat 8/9 and MODIS (heat island); ESA WorldCover and EFFIS (wildfire); MITECO SNCZI (flood zones); JRC (coast); ERA5 + Global Wind Atlas (wind); Copernicus EGMS (ground movement); WRI Aqueduct (water); INE (population); OpenStreetMap, © contributors, ODbL (streets, neighbourhoods, rivers and facilities).