District: Leiria · Região de Leiria
Pombal
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Pombal is a municipality in the district of Leiria (sub-region: Região de Leiria), covering 626 km² in 17 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 858 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Pombal, Guia and Meirinhas. 338 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Carnide, Alhais and Paço.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 36,021 of 99,166 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 7,591 ha
- Villages
- 858
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 38 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.