AceiroDistrict: Braga · Ave
Vila Nova de Famalicão
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Vila Nova de Famalicão is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Ave), covering 202 km² in 39 parishes. 34 % 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 280 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Nova de Famalicão, Riba de Ave and Joane. 38 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Vilares, Mosteiro and Pinheiro Torto.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 4,542 of 8,283 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 2,725 ha
- Villages
- 280
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 36 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.