Forest maps by region

Forest maps in Greece, region by region

We checked every parcel in the public cadastre snapshot against the public forest maps. These tables show how often parcels carry codes that fall under forest law in each region. They describe areas, not individual properties.

Data as of 8 October 2026

RegionParcelsParcel area under forest-law codesParcels touching a codeParcels mostly coded
Epirus717,76179.3%42.7%28.6%
Western Macedonia871,52767.8%35.1%19.8%
Western Greece1,142,17659.5%31.8%19.4%
Central Greece1,334,67067.9%31.7%22.9%
Thessaly911,07362.0%28.4%18.6%
Peloponnese1,449,63459.6%28.2%18.9%
Ionian Islands173,13051.0%26.4%17.8%
Central Macedonia2,298,34952.9%26.3%13.5%
South Aegean194,01868.3%21.9%15.9%
Crete1,308,12247.0%17.8%11.5%
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace1,342,66561.5%17.1%10.8%
Attica1,449,09256.6%16.8%12.9%
North Aegean164,08724.2%4.9%2.3%
All of Greece13,356,30461.6%26.0%16.5%

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