Villnachern

Geography

Villnachern has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 49.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 7.0% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.7% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.2%. 46.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.1% is used for growing crops and 9.2% is pastures, while 2.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.

Most-observed species

• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  17,698
• Annual Fleabane

  Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. · Magnoliopsida
  11,153
• Common Blue

  Polyommatus icarus (von Rottemburg, 1775) · Insecta
  9,809
• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  8,890
• Marbled White

  Melanargia galathea Linnaeus, 1758 · Insecta
  8,121
• Small Heath

  Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  6,526
• Silver-washed Fritillary

  Argynnis paphia (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  4,163
• bow-winged grasshopper

  Chorthippus biguttulus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  4,124

Most recent

• M 3.7 — 2026-04-26
  4 km N of Quarten, Switzerland
• M 3.5 — 2024-06-27
  1 km SSW of Todtmoos, Germany
• M 4.2 — 2024-06-04
  2 km NNW of Unteriberg, Switzerland
• M 3.9 — 2022-09-10
  1 km WSW of Zimmersheim, France
• M 4 — 2020-10-25
  5 km ESE of Ennenda, Switzerland
• M 3.1 — 2018-05-04
  2 km W of Schliengen, Germany