AceiroDistrict: Viseu · Viseu Dão Lafões
Vila Nova de Paiva
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Vila Nova de Paiva is a municipality in the district of Viseu (sub-region: Viseu Dão Lafões), covering 176 km² in 5 parishes. Most of it, 84 %, 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 53 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Nova de Paiva, Queiriga and Vila Cova à Coelheira. 18 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Fráguas, Carvalha and Borralhais.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 5,666 of 28,873 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 891 ha
- Villages
- 53
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 42 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.