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Frassinetto: 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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The report looks at the exact point: landslide and flood risk, seismic zone, price per square metre for the area, services and nearby stops.

For example: Via Roma 1, Frassinetto.

Frassinetto, a mountain village above Pont Canavese

Above Pont Canavese, where the Orco valley meets Val Soana, the road climbs in hairpins to Frassinetto, at about a thousand metres. The village is a scatter of small hamlets on the hillside, with stone houses, many of the older ones roofed with stone slabs, and meadows opening towards the plain. The views are long, but every service is further down.

People who buy here usually want a summer or weekend house, or are willing to drive down every day to Pont and Cuorgnè and on to Ivrea or Turin. Winter is long (this is climate zone F) and snow can slow the road. In older houses, the roof, damp in walls built against the slope and the cost of heating are what count.

Istat, Italy's national statistics office, counted 270 residents in 2023, almost as many as in 2011 (272), a change of -0.7%. The estimated average age is 49.9, higher than the 47.4 of the province of Turin, and over-65s make up 30.4% against 26.4%. Foreign residents account for 1.5%. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

For earthquakes the municipality is in zone 3 of the Civil Protection Department's scale, along with 271 of the 312 municipalities in the province, and expected acceleration is about 0.053 g, a low figure. On steep ground it is more useful to look at retaining walls and drainage. For the exact address the report checks the official landslide maps and measures the slope, starting from the Revenue Agency's cadastral maps.

Key points

  • Scattered village at about a thousand metres above Pont Canavese.
  • 270 residents in 2023, a change of -0.7% since 2011.
  • Over-65s make up 30.4%, more than in the province.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.053 g.

Overview

Frassinetto is a municipality in the province of Torino, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 270 residents, among the smallest in the province (286 of 312).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Frassinetto 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 0.053 g, a moderate 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 number of residents is nearly unchanged. The estimated average age is 50 years, higher than the province average (47). 30% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 1.5% of the population. On average, a household has 1.9 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Frassinetto declared an average taxable income of 20,849 euros, below the provincial average (27,231 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Frassinetto is in climate zone F, with 3,826 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 1,048 metres above sea level.

Services

In the Overture Maps data, Frassinetto has 1 sports facility.

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 1.3% of the land in Frassinetto, compared with 8.6% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.1 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Frassinetto 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 Frassinetto.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Frassinetto: 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 Frassinetto 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 16 inhabited census areas in Frassinetto. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 69 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 13.6%
  • good 86.4%

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 001108. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.