First pick
Parc du château du Rozier
Park or garden
2.3 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Feurs
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC037%of the land protected
Outdoors in Feurs · protected areas, woods and footpaths
37% of Feurs’ land is protected for nature
Footpaths add up to 18 km across Feurs (0.8 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 6.8% of Feurs. Feurs has 8 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
37%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
6.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
18 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du château du Rozier
Throughout this page, the Loire median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Feurs compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas37%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
84out of 100
Woodland6.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
30out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
24out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Feurs has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,240 to 8,492 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Grande-Motte (6 km per km²) to Évron (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Grande-Motte Hérault | 6 | 4% | 53% | On it |
| 2 | Bihorel Seine-Maritime | 5.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 3 | Larmor-Plage Morbihan | 5.3 | 17% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | Groslay Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 15% | 0% | 138 km |
| 5 | Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie Vendée | 4.3 | 3.1% | 5.4% | On it |
| 6 | Harfleur Seine-Maritime | 4.1 | 14% | 0% | 6.6 km |
| 7 | Bouaye Loire-Atlantique | 3.4 | 20% | 9% | 26 km |
| 8 | Pignan Hérault | 3.2 | 1.7% | 34% | 13 km |
| 9 | Venelles Bouches-du-Rhône | 3 | 41% | 10% | 29 km |
| 10 | Guilers Finistère | 2.9 | 11% | 0% | 5.1 km |
| 11 | Téteghem-Coudekerque-Village Nord | 2.8 | 9.1% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 12 | Brunstatt-Didenheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 25% | 0% | 438 km |
| 13 | Pérenchies Nord | 2.5 | 0.9% | 0% | 56 km |
| 14 | Carbon-Blanc Gironde | 2.5 | 0.5% | 0% | 14 km |
| 15 | Trégueux Côtes-d'Armor | 2.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 16 | Coutances Manche | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 5.7 km |
| 17 | Ballan-Miré Indre-et-Loire | 2.2 | 30% | 0% | 176 km |
| 18 | Orchies Nord | 1.9 | 1.7% | 0.7% | 84 km |
| 19 | Bassens Gironde | 1.9 | 0.3% | 10% | 13 km |
| 20 | Pont-l'Abbé Finistère | 1.9 | 13% | 2% | On it |
| 21 | Bandol Var | 1.8 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 22 | Noyal-Châtillon-sur-Seiche Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 56 km |
| 23 | Hirson Aisne | 1.8 | 66% | 66% | 167 km |
| 24 | Saint-Claude Jura | 1.7 | 78% | 100% | 318 km |
| 25 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 5.4% | 1.3% | 53 km |
| 26 | Trignac Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 0.1% | 65% | 1.7 km |
| 27 | Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 4.8% | 0.5% | 50 km |
| 28 | Reignier-Ésery Haute-Savoie | 1.1 | 26% | 3.1% | 279 km |
| 29 | Pégomas Alpes-Maritimes | 1 | 49% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 30 | Éguilles Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 12% | 54% | 23 km |
| 31 | Meximieux Ain | 1 | 12% | 2.7% | 274 km |
| 32 | Thuir Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 23 km |
| 33 | Tournan-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 178 km |
| 34 | Feurs Loire | 0.8 | 6.8% | 37% | 243 km |
| 35 | Marguerittes Gard | 0.7 | 11% | 33% | 44 km |
| 36 | Marseillan Hérault | 0.7 | 0.9% | 52% | On it |
| 37 | Talmont-Saint-Hilaire Vendée | 0.6 | 6.9% | 8.5% | On it |
| 38 | Tonnay-Charente Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 3.3% | 17% | 6.9 km |
| 39 | Onnaing Nord | 0.5 | 16% | 1.1% | 105 km |
| 40 | Gennes-Val-de-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 29% | 100% | 134 km |
| 41 | Évron Mayenne | 0.3 | 7.3% | 19% | 88 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Feurs
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du château du Rozier leads, at 2.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Feurs
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Plaine du Forez
30% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de la Loire
14% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Écozone du Forez
6.7% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Lignon, Vizezy, Anzon et leurs affluents
2.6 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area37%
Natura 2000 site37%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
37% of Feurs’ land is protected, more than in 84% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Loire has 1.2%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
18 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Feurs
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
18 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
8 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
6.8%
about 1.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
FeursLoire medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FeursLoire medianFrance median
Woodland6.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 70% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Feurs’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin de Montaigne de Feurs à Boën10 km
Chemin de Montaigne de Brussieu à Feurs7.3 km
Les Trois Villages6.1 km
Le Monorail4.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Feurs: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Feurs, 0.7 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 33 | 28 | 29 | 48 | 76 | 65 | 70 | 69 | 58 | 72 | 67 | 37 |
February is the driest month (28 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 76 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 63 nights a year. The climate in Feurs →
Neighbors
Next to Feurs
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BalbignyPanissièresMontrond-les-BainsBoën-sur-LignonChazelles-sur-LyonSaint-GalmierFeurs
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feurs | 37% | 6.8% | 0.8 |
| Balbigny 2,911 · 9 km | 5.8% | 12% | 0.6 |
| Panissières 2,911 · 11 km | 0% | 21% | 0.4 |
| Montrond-les-Bains 5,652 · 11 km | 17% | 3.1% | 1.2 |
| Boën-sur-Lignon 3,001 · 17 km | 4.3% | 12% | 1.2 |
| Chazelles-sur-Lyon 5,543 · 17 km | 0% | 13% | 0.6 |
| Saint-Galmier 5,829 · 18 km | 0% | 13% | 0.7 |
Panissières is more wooded.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Feurs
Is Feurs in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 37% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Feurs?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Feurs is woodland?
6.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Feurs near the sea?
No: the coast is 243 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Feurs?
April and June to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.