"If you talk about the damage the current year until the amount is estimated at slightly more than 2 billion rubles in Russia as a whole. Last year, the total amount of damage was about 25 billion rubles. Accordingly, in previous years it was around 50-60 billion. However, it is still early to draw conclusions," said Valentine.

He noted that the spring fires when burning dry grass over. Next, most dangerous stage of summer fires – crown fires that cause the most damage.

"Today the situation is quite calm. There are fires that occur from an already existing dry thunderstorms, mainly in the South of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is traditional for the last years, the reason of occurrence of forest fires," he said.

The head of the Federal forestry Agency said that in the far East in the Amur region, where this year recorded the most fires while the damage was minor, and explained the reason. "It is either cedar, or Mongolian oak, they are all at waist height, and the leaves do not shed and therefore as the gunpowder flare from the fire. Old trees are destroyed and new grass and plants start to emerge," said Valentine.