Fire season closed in all regions of the North-Western Federal District

The fire season has ended in all regions of the North-Western Federal District. This was reported by the press service of the Forestry Department of the NWFD. The season in the Murmansk region closed almost two months earlier.

In 2026, 468 forest fires occurred in the district on an area of 3.9 thousand hectares. In the Kaliningrad region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug did not allow a single forest fire.

The efficiency of extinguishing in the district was 92.6 percent. In the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Leningrad and Pskov regions, this figure reached 100 percent.

The main causes of fires are human actions and thunderstorms.

During the year, almost 1.5 million patrols of forest lands were carried out. Experts identified 912 violations of fire safety rules in forests and compiled 310 protocols. The total amount of fines is 11.39 million rubles.

As part of the Stop Fire campaign, 621 lessons and almost 53,000 lectures and talks were held in the district’s regions. They also issued more than 158,000 leaflets and installed almost 12,000 sold-outs.

To extinguish fires in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Tomsk region and Krasnoyarsk Territory, paratroopers from Komi, Karelia, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions were involved.

In the Murmansk region, the fire season ended on September 7. For the year in the forests of the region eliminated 33 fires on an area of 276.56 hectares – almost half the number of fires and about five to six times less than in 2025. At the same time, 32 fires were extinguished in the first day, and the efficiency was 97 percent. Murmansk paratroopers-firefighters this season were also involved in extinguishing forests outside the North-West — in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Tomsk region and Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Earlier, “MK in Murmansk” said that to extinguish 122 natural fires in Yamal sent 16 rescuers of the Murmansk region.