District: Leiria · Região de Leiria
Figueiró dos Vinhos
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Figueiró dos Vinhos is a municipality in the district of Leiria (sub-region: Região de Leiria), covering 173 km² in 4 parishes. Most of it, 88 %, 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 165 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Figueiró dos Vinhos, Casal da Fonte and Arega. 79 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Castanheira de Figueiró, Chavelho and Douro.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 6,624 of 23,480 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 1,231 ha
- Villages
- 165
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 39 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.