District: Guarda · Beiras e Serra da Estrela
Almeida
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Almeida is a municipality in the district of Guarda (sub-region: Beiras e Serra da Estrela), covering 518 km² in 16 parishes. 71 % of it is forest land (woodland, scrub or natural pasture, according to the COS 2025 land-cover map): there, the strip around each house is 50 m wide.
The map finds 68 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vilar Formoso, Nave de Haver and Arrabalde do Poço. 13 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Aldeia de São Sebastião, Valverde and Castelo Bom.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 5,823 of 28,338 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 1,011 ha
- Villages
- 68