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Climate and hazards: regional anti-smog restrictions, seismic zone 4, 7.5% of residents in flood-prone areas

Verbania applies the regional traffic restrictions ("Hill" zone), with the anti-smog traffic light active from 15 September to 15 April. It is in seismic zone 4. According to ISPRA, 2,268 residents, 7.5%, live in areas of medium flood hazard, which also contain 15.8% of firms and 28.8% of listed cultural heritage sites; landslide risk concerns 13 residents.

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Anti-smog restrictions

Verbania is one of the Piedmont municipalities subject to the traffic restrictions of regional resolution DGR 26-3694 of 6 August 2021, in the "Hill" zone. Each municipality concerned applies them through a mayoral ordinance drafted on the regional template, which may also make the rules stricter. From 15 September to 15 April ARPA Piemonte monitors the conditions in which pollutants build up and triggers the orange and red levels of the anti-smog traffic light, which add temporary measures to the structural restrictions; the level in force is shown on the Aria+ Piemonte portal, the local rules in the municipal ordinance.

Seismic and hydrogeological risk

In the seismic classification list updated in May 2025 by the Civil Protection Department, Verbania is in zone 4, the least hazardous of the four. The main risk is flooding: according to the indicators of ISPRA's IdroGEO platform (2024 report on hydrogeological instability), 2,268 residents, 7.5% of the population, live in areas of medium flood hazard, which also contain 454 firms (15.8%) and 40 cultural heritage sites (28.8%). Thirteen residents live in areas of high or very high landslide hazard. Anyone looking for a home near the lake or the rivers can check the area on the municipality's map on the same platform.

Days per year above the PM10 limit (50 µg/m³)

City figurePeriod: 2024Validsample unknown

Source: SNPA – La qualità dell'aria in Italia nel 2024: PM10, tabella ISQA per stazione (dati ARPA/APPA, provvisori) · Dati 2024 elaborati dalle ARPA/APPA a fine anno, provvisori: le relazioni regionali definitive possono dedurre i superamenti attribuibili a polveri desertiche. Valore limite: max 35 giorni/anno. Unica stazione nel comune nella tabella.

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