District: Guarda · Beiras e Serra da Estrela
Mêda
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Mêda is a municipality in the district of Guarda (sub-region: Beiras e Serra da Estrela), covering 286 km² in 11 parishes. 58 % 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 56 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Mêda, Coriscada and Rabaçal. 9 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Prova, Pestana and Enxameia.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 4,403 of 12,836 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 740 ha
- Villages
- 56