Fuel strip around built-up areas (100 m): can you build on it in Portugal?
Yes, you must keep it clear: where a built-up area borders forest, owners must manage fuel in a standard strip 100 m wide from the edge of the built-up area.
- Answer
- A duty on the landowner.
- Width
- 100 m standard, set out spatially in sub-regional programmes.
- Also 100 m
- Camping sites, hotels, industrial sites, fuel stations and similar installations.
- Who decides
- The municipality enforces it.
- Legal basis
- Decreto-Lei 82/2021, article 49(5) and (6)
- Sources
- files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2021/10/19900/0000200047.pdf
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
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