We have scored the climate risk of the 2.483 buildings in Portugalete 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 1,2 °C above the median for Portugalete; with between 20 and 40 % tree cover, 0,9 °C below. 2.421 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.
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.
The 21.480 homes in Portugalete 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 Portugalete stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | Portugalete | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 1 nights | 28 nights | lower than 86 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 10 nights | 74 nights | lower than 85 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 24,5 °C | 32,0 °C | lower than 95 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 0,7 °C | 0,7 °C | lower than 53 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,0% | 2,0% | lower than 89 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 0,0% | 0,0% | lower than 66 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 2,5 | 4,9 | lower than 90 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 37 m/s | 29 m/s | higher than 98 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,4 mm/yr | −0,7 mm/yr | sinking faster than 85 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 29% | 19% | higher than 99 % of them |
Compared with the 112 municipalities in Biscay province. The bar shows where Portugalete stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | Portugalete | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 1 nights | 0 nights | higher than 71 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 10 nights | 7 nights | higher than 71 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 24,5 °C | 24,6 °C | lower than 55 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 0,7 °C | 0,1 °C | higher than 89 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,0% | 0,0% | lower than 74 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 0,0% | 0,0% | lower than 57 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 2,5 | 2,5 | lower than 53 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 37 m/s | 30 m/s | higher than 96 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,4 mm/yr | −1,6 mm/yr | sinking more slowly than 85 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 29% | 24% | higher than 93 % of them |
Compared with the 255 municipalities in the Basque Country. The bar shows where Portugalete stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | Portugalete | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 1 nights | 0 nights | higher than 72 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 10 nights | 4 nights | higher than 79 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 24,5 °C | 25,2 °C | lower than 79 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 0,7 °C | 0,1 °C | higher than 93 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,0% | 0,1% | lower than 76 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 0,0% | 0,0% | lower than 57 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 2,5 | 2,5 | lower than 62 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 37 m/s | 30 m/s | higher than 95 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,4 mm/yr | −1,4 mm/yr | sinking faster than 50 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 29% | 23% | higher than 93 % of them |
Compared with the 8.217 municipalities in Spain. The bar shows where Portugalete stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | Portugalete | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 1 nights | 0 nights | higher than 55 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 10 nights | 8 nights | higher than 52 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 24,5 °C | 32,4 °C | lower than 96 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 0,7 °C | 0,1 °C | higher than 84 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,0% | 0,6% | lower than 80 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 0,0% | 0,0% | lower than 64 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 2,5 | 4,6 | lower than 89 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 37 m/s | 31 m/s | higher than 95 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,4 mm/yr | −0,4 mm/yr | sinking faster than 90 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 29% | 28% | higher than 52 % 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 2.483 Cadastre buildings in Portugalete 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).