Forests cover 68 percent of the total area, i.e. 26 million ha. Finland's forests are in the boreal coniferous forest zone. The forest fire season in Finland is relatively short, usually starting at the beginning of May and ending in September, i.e. 5-6 months.
Finnish summers are cool and relatively wet.
In addition, Finland is not too complicated in terms of geography for fire control purposes. There are no mountains and the forest road network is quite extensive. This helps the Finnish forest fire management system to keep the fire problem relatively small in scale as compared to southern Europe. As shown in the flow chart, educational, legislative and technical means are used in fire prevention. People need to be educated to behave in a safe way in the forests.