First pick
Plaine des Jeux de Tujac
Park or garden · 380 m outside the commune
23 ha3.7 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.7 km of path
3.5 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.024%woodland
Outdoors in Ussac · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Ussac is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 9 km across Ussac (0.4 km per km²). 24% of Ussac is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Ussac; the nearest, Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24 (Natura 2000), is 3.8 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24, 3.8 km
Woodland
24%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
9.4 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Plaine des Jeux de Tujac
Throughout this page, the Corrèze median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Ussac?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyVallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24 (Natura 2000) is 3.8 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Ussac apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Ussac compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
48out of 100
Woodland24%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
68out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
9out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ussac has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,286 to 4,361 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 4 | Agneaux Manche | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 25 km |
| 5 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 6 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 7 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 8 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 9 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 10 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 12 | Châtenois Bas-Rhin | 2 | 33% | 0% | 458 km |
| 13 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 14 | Lanvallay Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 4.9 km |
| 15 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 16 | Is-sur-Tille Côte-d'Or | 1.6 | 41% | 0% | 388 km |
| 17 | Millery Rhône | 1.6 | 14% | 0% | 237 km |
| 18 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 19 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 20 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 21 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 22 | Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 38 km |
| 23 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 24 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 25 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 26 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 27 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 28 | Rang-du-Fliers Pas-de-Calais | 0.6 | 23% | 13% | 4.7 km |
| 29 | Nozay Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.7% | 0% | 52 km |
| 30 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 31 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 32 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 33 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 34 | Eyragues Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 35 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 36 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 37 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 38 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 km |
| 39 | Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente | 0.2 | 16% | 3.1% | 65 km |
| 40 | Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne | 0.1 | 49% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Buzançais Indre | 0.1 | 28% | 5.7% | 206 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Ussac
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Plaine des Jeux de Tujac leads, at 23 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24 is the nearest protected area, 3.8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24
3.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
9 km of footpaths cross Ussac
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
9.4 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
24%
about 5.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
UssacCorrèze medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
UssacCorrèze medianFrance median
Woodland24%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 68% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Ussac is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
De Tours à Toulouse 03, Aubusson - Brive-la-Gaillarde6.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ussac: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Brive, 5.5 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 74 | 60 | 66 | 88 | 87 | 78 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 80 | 85 | 83 |
February is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 88 mm of rain falls in April, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 58 nights a year. The climate in Ussac →
Neighbors
Next to Ussac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Brive-la-GaillardeDonzenacMalemortSaint-Pantaléon-de-LarcheCosnacAllassacUssac
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ussac | 0% | 24% | 0.4 |
| Brive-la-Gaillarde 47,095 · 3.5 km | 0% | 27% | 1.2 |
| Donzenac 2,733 · 4.6 km | 0% | 34% | 0.4 |
| Malemort 8,239 · 5.2 km | 0% | 27% | 0.7 |
| Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche 5,091 · 7.3 km | 0.3% | 25% | 0.2 |
| Cosnac 3,044 · 7.7 km | 0% | 41% | 0.9 |
| Allassac 4,081 · 8.3 km | 2.2% | 21% | 0.4 |
Cosnac is more wooded.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Ussac
Is Ussac in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24, 3.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Ussac?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Ussac is woodland?
24% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ussac near the sea?
No: the coast is 167 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ussac?
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.