Fabras

Ardèche · CC Ardèche des Sources et Volcans · INSEE 07087

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

Few services 30.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fabras (INSEE 07087) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC Ardèche des Sources et Volcans. Population 467 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/07087-fabras

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 17,931 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.61	5	3.05

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE BISTROT DU JARDIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (NATH COIFF · CELINE JOURDAN COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING BONNEVAL · CAMPING L'ESTIVAL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	LE BISTROT DU JARDIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	NATH COIFF · CELINE JOURDAN COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING BONNEVAL · CAMPING L'ESTIVAL	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 188 2023: 467 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 389 (2012) → 467 (2023): 20.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 265 (1990) → 467 (2023): 76.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 267, of which 19.5 % second homes and 2.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.6 km NBakery — 2.0 km NEFood shop — 2.8 km EGP — 2.9 km SWPharmacy — 2.9 km SW Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Pont-de-Labeaume): 2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lalevade-d'Ardèche): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Jaujac): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Jaujac): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Pont-de-Labeaume): 1.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.5

Days at or below 0 °C 43.1

Muggy days a summer 1.8

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VALS-LES-BAINS weather station, 6.1 km away at 283 m; the village itself is at 465 m. ^[11]

The village sits 182 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CROIX MILLET, 6.2 km away at 779 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 314 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,869 mm of rain a year, spread over 96 days — about 19.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at JAUJAC, 5.6 km away at 550 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07087/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07087/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07087/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07087/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07178
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07127
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07107
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Pierre-le-Chastel	63	171 km NW	450	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Solaure en Diois	26	88 km E	456	33.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Wasserbourg	68	433 km NE	465	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 46 % · humidity 86 %
Rochessauve	07	27 km E	495	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Condac	16	353 km NW	456	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Loup-des-Vignes	45	403 km N	386	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 89 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rochessauve	07	27 km E	495	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Solaure en Diois	26	88 km E	456	33.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-le-Chastel	63	171 km NW	450	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Condac	16	353 km NW	456	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Loup-des-Vignes	45	403 km N	386	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 89 %
Wasserbourg	68	433 km NE	465	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 46 % · humidity 86 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Fabras's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rochessauve	07	27 km E	495	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gervais-en-Vallière	71	259 km N	445	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Cambes	46	186 km W	343	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Colombe	33	344 km W	423	35.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Magnieu	01	168 km NE	651	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Joch	66	267 km SW	416	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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