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Frassinoro: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.

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Frassinoro, the Modena Apennines above a thousand metres

Frassinoro is a municipality in the high Apennines of Modena, with its main village above a thousand metres and a territory of woods, pastures and scattered hamlets, including Piandelagotti, up towards the ridge with Tuscany. The village grew around the abbey founded in the Middle Ages by Beatrice of Canossa, Matilda's mother, traces of which survive in the parish church.

This is real mountain country: climate zone F, long winters and snow. For a house here, heating, insulation, the state of the roof and winter access matter more than the distance to the shops. Many homes are second homes for families from the plain, opened in summer and at weekends. Modena and Sassuolo, where jobs and services are concentrated, are a long drive down the valley roads.

The population is older and shrinking. Istat, the national statistics office, records 1,723 residents in 2023, down 13.7% on 2011. The average age is 52.9, against 45.8 in the province, and over-65s make up 35.3%, well above the provincial 23.7%.

Frassinoro is in seismic zone 2, like 7 municipalities in the province of Modena, all along the Apennine belt; the other 40 are in zone 3. The expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is 0.185 g. For stone houses, have the connections between walls, the timber floors and the roof checked.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps. On mountain slopes, the gradient and the official landslide maps need looking at plot by plot, and the report reads them for the address you choose.

Key points

  • High Apennine municipality, main village above a thousand metres.
  • Over-65s at 35.3%, against 23.7% in the province.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration 0.185 g.
  • Long winters: heating and insulation matter a lot.

Overview

Frassinoro is a municipality in the province of Modena, in Emilia-Romagna. At the end of 2023 it had 1,723 residents, among the smallest in the province (43 of 47).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Frassinoro is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Only 7 of 47 municipalities in the province are in zone 2.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.185 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Frassinoro, the building matters a great deal: ask for the design year, whether it met the 2008 seismic standards, and whether any seismic retrofit has been carried out.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 13.7%. The estimated average age is 53 years, higher than the province average (46). 35% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 25%). Foreign residents make up 4.6% of the population. On average, a household has 1.9 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Frassinoro declared an average taxable income of 22,238 euros, below the provincial average (27,632 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Frassinoro is in climate zone F, with 3,972 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 1,131 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Frassinoro has 3 schools and 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 1 grocery shop, 2 healthcare facilities, 2 sports facilities and 1 green area.

There are 1.7 schools per 1,000 residents, more than the province average (0.7).

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 3.4% of the land in Frassinoro, compared with 11.1% in the province and 9.0% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Frassinoro is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Emilia-Romagna in 2026. According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is medium. Radon varies from building to building and can only be known by measuring it, especially on ground floors and in basements.

Official databases list one contaminated site, or site still under investigation, in Frassinoro. The report tells you whether one is close to the address.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Frassinoro: 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 Frassinoro 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 65 inhabited census areas in Frassinoro. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 56 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 5.9%
  • fair 78.1%
  • good 16.0%

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 036016. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.