Schöftland

Geography

Schöftland has an area, , of . Of this area, or 35.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 23.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 3.2% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. 38.7% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 18.9% is used for growing crops and 15.0% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.

Most-observed species

• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  7,609
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  7,400
• Common Blue

  Polyommatus icarus (von Rottemburg, 1775) · Insecta
  5,252
• Annual Fleabane

  Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. · Magnoliopsida
  4,809
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  4,472
• Small Heath

  Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  3,346
• Marbled White

  Melanargia galathea Linnaeus, 1758 · Insecta
  3,143
• Dusky Large Blue

  Maculinea nausithous (Bergstrasser, 1779) · Insecta
  3,094

Most recent

• M 3.7 — 2026-04-26
  4 km N of Quarten, Switzerland
• M 4.1 — 2025-07-21
  4 km E of Frutigen, Switzerland
• M 3.5 — 2024-06-27
  1 km SSW of Todtmoos, Germany
• M 4.2 — 2024-06-04
  2 km NNW of Unteriberg, Switzerland
• M 4.4 — 2023-03-22
  1 km NW of Pont-de-Roide, France
• M 3.9 — 2022-09-10
  1 km WSW of Zimmersheim, France