Drive time to the nearest DEA (level I or II) emergency department across ~7,900 comuni, from Ministero della Salute. Pan and zoom the map, or search a place to see its figure and open its full profile.
How it’s built. Minutes by road from the main town of the comune to the nearest DEA: a hospital the Ministero della Salute lists in its emergency network (Elenco strutture della rete dell'emergenza ospedaliera, sites active at 31 December 2025) as DEA level II or DEA level I. A Pronto Soccorso does not count here (the companion layer, nearest emergency department, counts it). A DEA (Dipartimento di Emergenza-Urgenza e Accettazione) is a larger emergency department with more specialties on site; level II adds the most complex care (for example neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, major trauma). The minutes are to the nearest of either level; the site's level is kept in data/distance/destinations.json and shown on the comune page. The Ministry lists sites by hospital, not by service hours, so a seasonal or reduced-hours site counts like any other, and it is not a service guarantee: confirm with the local health authority (ASL/ULSS/ASST). Measured by road from the main town of the comune: the OpenStreetMap place point (city, town or village) named like the comune, or like its first-named part when it is named for several places, nearest the comune's geographic center when there are several. 285 comuni have no such point and are measured from the geographic center of the comune instead (flagged in data/distance/nearest-comune-2026.json). Free-flow speeds, no traffic, no stops, no ferries, and no unpaved roads, over OpenStreetMap roads (Geofabrik extract of 25 October 2026, routed with Valhalla). It is an approximation: the point is not your address, and a winter closure or a queue changes a real trip. A village reachable only by cable car or a track has no figure. Lower is closer. Credit: Dati Ministero della Salute (Elenco strutture della rete dell'emergenza ospedaliera, sites active at 31 December 2025); site positions and roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), and this derived file is shared under the same license.