Does your land in Portugal have to be cleared?

The law requires vegetation to be cleared up to 50 m around houses and 100 m around villages, even when the house belongs to a neighbour. See on the map whether your land lies in a strip, how many square metres you must clear, and what to do in each zone.

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Aerial photo of a village surrounded by forest, with the village's 100 m strip in purple and, around two isolated houses, the 0–2, 2–10 and 10–50 m zones; parcel boundaries as thin lines. — A village in Góis, on the map: the village's 100 m strip and the 50 m zones of two isolated houses.

Mainland Portugal in figures

457,527: hectares of fuel-management strips around houses and villages
47,079: villages of 10 or more buildings, each with its own 100 m strip where it borders forest
5,784,097: buildings that require a 50 m strip around them (not counting annexes or known ruins)
1,867,555: mapped parcels with a strip, out of 5,484,642 mapped parcels

Computed from the COS 2025 (DGT), BUPi, the land cadastre, OpenStreetMap and Microsoft. Approximate values.