District: Vila Real · Douro
Mesão Frio
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Mesão Frio is a municipality in the district of Vila Real (sub-region: Douro), covering 27 km² in 5 parishes. 32 % 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 65 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Mesão Frio, Ventuzelas and Oliveira. 2 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Rojão de Cima.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 2,163 of 4,511 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 198 ha
- Villages
- 65