Focicchia

Identity

Focicchia (INSEE 2B116) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC Pasquale Paoli. Population 36 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/2B116-focicchia

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 99 % of the 2,868 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.

Services

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 36 (2012) → 36 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 22 (1990) → 36 (2023): 63.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 50, of which 68 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Venaco): 9.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Castellare-di-Mercurio): 7.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Venaco): 10.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Venaco): 10.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Piedicorte-di-Gaggio): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VENACO-GEND weather station, 10.1 km away at 615 m; the village itself is at 667 m. ^[11]

The village sits 52 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.13 °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 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CORTE_FDF, 11.3 km away at 362 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 305 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,068 mm of rain a year, spread over 84 days — about 12.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MATRA, 8.7 km away at 575 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B116/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B116/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B116/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B116/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B341
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B078
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B218
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024