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Brosso: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Torino, Piemonte. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.

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For example: Via Roma 1, Brosso.

Brosso, a mountain village in the Valchiusella

The Valchiusella climbs from the Canavese into the mountains, and Brosso sits on one of its slopes at around 800 metres. The village has a past tied to its mines, now closed. Today it is a small mountain community of stone houses, woods and scattered hamlets.

The area is in climate zone F: long winters, snow and heating on for many months. Houses for sale are often stone buildings whose roofs were redone at different times, or never; before buying, find out what it costs to heat them, whether insulation has been improved and how you reach the house on snowy days. Work, secondary schools and larger services are down the valley, by car.

Brosso had 390 residents in 2023, 15.2% fewer than the 460 counted in 2011. The estimated average age is 50.2 (47.4 in the Metropolitan City of Turin) and over-65s are 30.5%, above 26.4%. Households are small, 1.70 people on average, and declared incomes are below the provincial average.

For earthquakes Brosso is in seismic zone 3 on the Civil Protection Department's national scale, like 270 other municipalities in the Metropolitan City, while 41 are in zone 4. Expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is about 0.046 g, a low value. For a stone house, the practical advice is to have the roof checked, along with the ties between walls and floors.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps and the report traces the address back to its land parcel. On the valley slopes, the official maps of landslides and torrent debris flows should be read for the exact spot.

Key points

  • Valchiusella village with a mining past.
  • 390 residents in 2023, down 15.2% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.046 g.
  • Climate zone F: see stone houses in winter before buying.

Overview

Brosso is a municipality in the province of Torino, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 390 residents, ranked 273 of 312 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Brosso is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (271 of 312) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.046 g, a low value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

Even in zone 3, seismic standards apply to new buildings: for an older building, ask about the design year and any structural work.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 15.2%. The estimated average age is 50 years, higher than the province average (47). 31% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 1.8% of the population. On average, a household has 1.7 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Brosso declared an average taxable income of 21,398 euros, below the provincial average (27,231 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Brosso is in climate zone F, with 3,420 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 797 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Brosso has 1 pharmacy.

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.8 per 1,000 residents.

Public transport

We do not yet have open public transport timetables for this municipality: the report says so explicitly, without inventing distances.

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 2.1% of the land in Brosso, compared with 8.6% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Brosso is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte in 2023. Radon varies from building to building and can only be known by measuring it, especially on ground floors and in basements.

Official databases list no contaminated sites in Brosso.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Brosso: the report checks the address against the ISPRA maps.

House prices

The Revenue Agency's price ranges per square metre (OMI) apply to zones, not to whole municipalities: the report gives the range for the address's zone.

Land registry

The cadastral maps for Brosso are public: from the address the report finds the sheet and parcel number.

Liveability area by area

The Vicinalia liveability index runs from 0 to 100 and looks at the place, not the people who live there: services within walking distance, transport, green space, natural hazards, air, quiet, buildings and connection. Here it is worked out at the centre of each of the 9 inhabited census areas in Brosso. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 70 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 7.4%
  • good 92.6%

Vicinalia index by census area, licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Data: IdroGEO ISPRA (2026), Istat, INGV, EEA, AGCOM, Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.

The colour is the value at the centre of the area. For an exact address, search for it above: the free check looks at that exact point. How the index is worked out

Data sources

ISTAT code 001036. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.