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Scagnello: what to know before buying a home

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

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Scagnello, a small municipality in the Mongia valley

The Mongia stream runs down to the Tanaro near Ceva through a short, wooded valley with a few villages spread across its slopes. Scagnello is one of them: a main village at around seven hundred and fifty metres and a few scattered hamlets among woods, meadows and fields, in hill-to-mountain country where the Ligurian Alps give way to the hills of the Cuneo area.

Ceva is the nearest town with shops, schools and a railway station, and many people also look to Mondovì for the hospital and work. Life here without a car is hard. Houses for sale are often old farmhouses or rustic buildings with land, so before buying check winter access, water supply, drainage and the state of the roofs. The climate zone is F, which means the heating stays on for a long season.

According to Istat, Italy's national statistics office, Scagnello had 172 residents in 2023, 35 fewer than the 207 of 2011, a fall of 16.9%. The estimated average age is 51.0, against 46.3 in the province of Cuneo, and over-65s make up 32.6%. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

Earthquake hazard is low. Scagnello is in seismic zone 4 on the Civil Protection Department's scale, like 106 of the 247 municipalities in the province, with an expected ground acceleration of about 0.069 g. Slopes and streams matter more than earthquakes, and the report checks them on the official landslide and flood maps for the individual address. The Revenue Agency publishes cadastral maps here, so the report can also trace the land parcel.

Key points

  • Hill-to-mountain municipality in the Mongia valley, near Ceva.
  • 172 residents in 2023, down 16.9% since 2011.
  • Average age 51.0, against 46.3 in the province.
  • Seismic zone 4, like 106 municipalities around Cuneo.

Overview

Scagnello is a municipality in the province of Cuneo, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 172 residents, ranked 208 of 247 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Scagnello is in seismic zone 4, the lowest-risk zone, where strong earthquakes are very rare. Only 106 of 247 municipalities in the province are in zone 4.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.069 g, a moderate value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

In zone 4 the risk is low, but for an older building it is still worth asking about the state of the structure.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 16.9%. The estimated average age is 51 years, higher than the province average (46). 33% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 2.9% of the population. On average, a household has 2.0 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Scagnello declared an average taxable income of 19,163 euros, below the provincial average (24,913 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Scagnello is in climate zone F, with 3,243 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 748 metres above sea level.

Services

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 1.1 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 2.5% of the land in Scagnello, compared with 5.3% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Scagnello is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte in 2023. According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is low. 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 Scagnello.

Landslides and flooding

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

Residents by band

  • fair 100.0%

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 004216. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.