Near Merilänranta, Lieksa

View 3.8 km

Open view    the view runs 20 km to the east; towards the south-west the ground closes it at 1.0 km; the land round the plot is level, so what cuts the view off at eye level is low ground close by and not a hill

This is the shape of the land alone. Woods, hedges, barns and the neighbours' houses block a view too, and none of them are in a model of the bare ground, so a plot can be far more shut in on the ground than this shows. The edges of the shaded area are approximate.

Village and town 33 min

Merilänranta 1 min    Lieksa 33 min

Drive times are estimates without traffic.

People nearby Remote

22 people within 1 km, 380 within 5 km

The kind of place is the EU's degree of urbanisation for the 1 km square the plot is in, in the method's own terms. People are from the European Commission's population grid for 2020. It spreads census counts over 100 m squares, so a count for a small area is an estimate. Checked against French tax records, the 1 km figure was within a third of the real count on six plots in ten. The 5 km figure was within a tenth on two in three. Holiday homes and farms can stand where nobody is registered as living. Buildings are those on the map, including barns, garages and any on the plot itself.

Shops/services 3–34 min

The drive to the nearest of each kind

Places within 10 km. Each row is the quickest to reach of the three nearest. Drive times are estimates without traffic.

Bodies of water 53 m

Nearest lake, in a straight line

Lakes, rivers, the sea, beaches and public pools from OpenStreetMap. Distances are to the nearest shore or bank. Water is listed where a road or path on the map comes to its shore. Water in golf courses, campsites and hotel grounds is not listed. Who may use that way, whether swimming is allowed and water quality are not included.

Emergency 29 min

Nearest fire station

Times are for a car at ordinary speeds from the station on the map. They are the drive alone, so help takes longer than this to arrive. They do not include the time to call out a crew. Many rural fire brigades are volunteers who come to the station from home. A station on the map is not a promise of cover. The emergency control room decides which crew to send, and it may come from further away. Not every station is on the map, and one built recently may be missing, so there may be a nearer one. Stations in another country are not included. Each row is the quickest to reach of the three nearest. Drive times are estimates without traffic.

Local economy €21,800

Households here have about 21,800 euro a year after tax, 88% of the national average, population falling

These figures describe the area around the plot. A district covers a few thousand square kilometres and a region covers much more. One village can differ from the average here. Income is what households have left after tax and benefits. Income and unemployment are published for regions, population change for districts. From EU regional statistics.

Visitors Some

This district takes about 3.2 visitor nights a year for every resident, most of them around July

Counts nights booked at hotels, guest houses, holiday lets and campsites. People staying in their own holiday home or with family are not counted. The real number of visitors is higher. Figures cover a whole district, so one busy lake can raise the figure for villages far from it. The months come from the larger region around the district. From EU tourism statistics.

Noise 51–67 dB

Traffic clearly audible outdoors through the day and evening

Estimated from mapped roads and railways and the shape of the land. This is a model. It is not a measurement. Lanes and farm tracks are not included.

Aircraft None near

No airport within 30 km

Worked out from where runways are and how many flights an airport handles. Aircraft land in a straight line along the runway, and where official noise maps exist most of the land they show as loud is in line with a runway in this way. On those maps about a quarter of the land in line with a runway is loud. Aircraft that turn after take-off are not followed. Flights are commercial passenger flights only, so freight, business, training and military flying are not counted. Swiss maps of small airfields show light aircraft reaching the planning limit for noise a median of 1.6 km from the runway. Helicopter landing sites and military low-flying areas are not included. Source: runways from OurAirports; commercial passenger flights from Eurostat.

Nuisances 3 in view

Nearest in view: regional road, 82 m to the west    1 hidden by hills

One row per kind, nearest first. Features hidden from the plot by the land are marked.

Bites and stings May-Sep

Ticks and mosquitoes, May to September

Listed with what lives nearest first, then by how many months it is active. Months are modelled from daily temperatures on a 9 km grid, adjusted to the plot's height and the lie of the land. Checked against field counts at 7 tick, 5 mosquito and 5 midge study sites. Highland midges are shown where they are recorded in the region. The first and last month of a season can be a month out. Distances are in a straight line, from a 10 m map of tree cover and from OpenStreetMap. Sightings are records published to GBIF since 2000, kept where their position is known to within 2 km. A sighting shows that someone recorded one there. No sighting does not mean there are none. Rain and the dryness of the air are not included. A dry summer can stop ticks for weeks, and mosquitoes need standing water. It says nothing about how many insects there are. Ditches, water butts and small streams are not on the map.

Wild animals 3 kinds

Wolves, bears and lynx live in this 10 km square

Large carnivores 2017 to 2022/23. The large carnivores are mapped in 10 km squares by national experts, from animals found dead, DNA, camera traps and checked tracks. The record ends in 2022 or 2023. Wolves and golden jackals have spread since, so a square that was empty then may not be now. An empty square means none was found there. The lynx is the Eurasian lynx. The Iberian lynx is not included. Wild boar numbers are a model fitted to hunting records and to a few places where boar were counted. It matches the official hunting records in France only loosely, and it describes the years before African swine fever, which has since reduced boar in parts of Germany, Poland, Italy and the Baltic states.

Land register 4.44 ha

Plot 42241100160029    Kiinteistorekisterikartta (cadastral index map)

Boundary and reference as published by the land register. It does not show what may be built. Owner names are not collected.

Municipality Lieksa

Pohjois-Karjala

The municipality is the authority that answers most planning questions about a plot. These boundaries come from map data. They are not a survey. Within about 150 m of a boundary the plot may fall in the next municipality, so check with the municipality before you rely on this.

Planning zone Unavailable

Not held for this country. See Coverage by country on ruralcheck.eu.

Terrain 0–10°

95–101 m    upper slope, facing E

Slope is the average within 100 m of the point, with the range beside it. Taken from bare-ground elevation. Walls and terracing are not included.

Protected areas Outside

Nearest is 944 m away

Rules on building, felling and drainage inside a protected area are set nationally and locally. Ask the planning authority what applies to this plot. Boundaries are those each country reported to the European Environment Agency. They are drawn at European scale, so a plot close to a boundary may fall on either side. The national authority's own map is definitive. National designations are not published for Estonia, Ireland, Turkiye, and Natura 2000 covers EU countries only.

Weather −10 to 21 °C

July highs    February lows −10 °C

Averages for 1991 to 2020. The temperatures start from daily records for the area and are adjusted for the plot's height and for whether it sits in a dip or on a rise. They are air temperatures in the shade. At 956 weather stations the monthly highs came within 1 °C of the station at 4 in 5, and the lows at 3 in 5. Rain and snow are for the area around the plot, on a grid of about 9 km. In hills and mountains one valley can be much wetter or drier than the next. On a dry Alpine valley floor the figure can be twice what falls there. The rain totals are uncertain. At 5,600 weather stations in Germany they came out about 15% higher than the stations measured, and rain gauges catch a little less than falls. The wet and dry months matched.

Sun 1,350–1,400 h

Expected sunshine a year, after cloud    trees and buildings not included

Clear-sky sunshine allows for the horizon only. Expected sunshine also allows for local cloud. Times are local time, including summer time.

Wind Partly sheltered

Wind in this area is light by European standards, averaging 5.0 m/s at 50 m above ground, mainly from the south; rising ground upwind gives the plot some shelter

Wind speed is a regional figure for 50 m above ground, clear of trees and buildings. Shelter is estimated from the shape of the land and is not measured here. Woods, hedges and buildings also give shelter and are not included.

Snow 99 days

Snow lies for about 99 days in an average year - much of the winter

Based on satellite images on a 500 m grid, so it describes the area around the plot rather than the plot itself. Snow under forest can be hidden from the satellite, and snow that melts within a day may be missed.

Frost 174 nights

174 nights of frost in a typical year

On still, clear nights cold air flows downhill and collects in low ground, where frost is then more likely. At this plot: air drains away from the plot. The nights and dates are worked out from 30 years of daily temperatures for the area, adjusted for the plot's height and for whether it sits in a dip or on a rise. Frost means the air falling below 0 °C.

Night sky Truly dark

This is about as dark as a sky gets in Europe, and dark enough that the Milky Way is the brightest thing in it

Modelled from satellite images of the light emitted within 100 km, for a clear moonless night. It is an estimate, not a measurement. Comparisons between locations are more reliable than the figure itself. Cloud, moonlight and new lighting nearby all change what you see.

Air quality Very clean

Fine-particle levels are very clean by European standards, cleaner than 26% of Finland

Modelled on a 10 km grid, so values describe the area rather than this plot. Local sources such as a nearby road, a quarry or wood stoves are not captured. Figures are for one year and vary with the weather.

Climate in 2050 174 → 145–149 frost nights

By the 2050s, about 25 fewer frost nights and about 15 days longer in the growing season, if emissions are curbed

The 2050 figures are scenarios, not forecasts. They show what happens if emissions follow each path. Today's temperatures are worked out for this plot and the change by 2050 is the models' change for the 25 km square around it. Rainfall and dry spells describe that square rather than the plot.

Flooding Reached

A flood expected about once a century reaches about 60% of the plot, up to 0.6 m deep.

Dykes and drainage are not included. Flood defences such as dykes, embankments and drainage are not in this model, so land they protect is still shown as flooded. Covers flooding from larger rivers only (those draining more than about 150 km²). Flooding from heavy rain, small streams and the sea is not included. Where no flood is shown, the area may not have been modelled. It does not mean there is no flood risk.

Coastal flooding No coast nearby

Wildfire 1 fire

Within 25 km since 2017

The closest burned 22.9 km away in 2022. Includes fires of about 30 ha or more, mapped from satellite images. Smaller fires are not recorded, so the true number may be higher.

Landslides Unavailable

Not held for this country. See Coverage by country on ruralcheck.eu.

Avalanches Unavailable

Not held for this country. See Coverage by country on ruralcheck.eu.

Earthquake Very low

Regional estimate, on rock

Expected earthquake shaking is very low by European standards. Ordinary building practice is not usually affected. A regional estimate for firm ground. It is not a value for this plot or a building-code figure. Soft ground shakes more. Design requirements are set by national rules and a ground survey.

Solar panels 850–860 kWh

A year per kW of panels, at the optimum angle

From PVGIS, the European Commission's solar model, for this point and horizon. Shading from buildings and trees is not included.

Groundwater Unavailable

Not held for this country. See Coverage by country on ruralcheck.eu.

Internet Unavailable

Not held for this country. See Coverage by country on ruralcheck.eu.

Trees 74% wooded

40% of the ground within 2 km of this plot is wooded. Of the trees within 2 km, about 16% lose their leaves in winter. That part is more open from about November to April.

Leaf type from satellite images at 10 m for 2024. It says broadleaf or conifer and does not identify species. Larch is a conifer that goes bare and is counted as evergreen here. Single trees and hedges below the map's smallest mapped patch do not appear.

Pollen May-Aug

Birch and grass pollen, May to August

Modelled on a 10 km grid, so it describes the area rather than this plot. A birch or an olive grove nearby can raise the count at the plot. Based on 2024 to 2026. Hazel, alder, ash, oak, plane, cypress, nettle, pellitory and mugwort are not modelled. This report names those recorded growing within 10 km. That says nothing about how much of their pollen is in the air, and some places have few records, so a plant not named may still grow there.

What grows here 156 days

About 156 days without frost in a typical year.

We checked this method against 916 weather stations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. At half of them the last frost date was within 9 days of what the station recorded, and at 9 in 10 within 4 weeks. At half of them the coldest night was within about 2 °C. The slope, the sun on the plot, the soil, the water and the shelter of walls, hedges and trees are not included. Each of them changes what grows as much as the weather does. None of this says a plant will do well here.

Public transport 2.4 km

Nearest bus stop, in a straight line

Distances are in a straight line to stops shown on the map. A stop on the map is not a service: some rural stops have only a few buses a day, so check the timetable. Not every rural stop is mapped, so there may be a nearer one.

Access road 10%

Open only in winter on the map    steepest 100 m    171 m up    6.9 km unpaved

Drive from the middle of the town to the nearest road to the plot, along the route the drive times use. Gradients are read from ground measured every 5 m and smoothed along the road, so a short ramp steeper than its surroundings may not show. Checked against road signs that state a gradient, the figure was within 3 points of the sign on about two roads in three. Bridges and tunnels are taken as straight between their ends. Some of a drive can have no gradient. That is road outside the ground measured every 5 m, and motorways and main roads whose ground is steeper than such a road is built, as under a bridge the map does not show or a road newer than the measurement. There the height chart shows the lie of the land from coarser height data. Time on a farm or forest track uses the speed cars were recorded driving on tracks with the same surface on the map. Surfaces and winter closures are as mapped. The map says what a road is made of, and says nothing of its condition, its width or potholes. Many roads carry no surface on the map at all, and a winter closure is only known where someone has mapped it.

Paths on the plot By road

Reached by a road    no path crosses the plot

A way crosses the plot when it runs into the land-register boundary and out again somewhere else. A road or track reaches the plot when it comes within 10 m of the boundary. From the map. Rights of way are recorded in the land register's deeds, which are not public, so the map cannot say whether anyone has a right to use a path or whether the plot has a registered access. In some countries anyone may walk across open land, so a path is not always a right of way. The plot is the land-register plot the pin is in. A sale often includes the neighbouring plots too, so check those as well.