Russia's Hydrometeorological Center has predicted a peak in forest fires in May.

Fires with the maximum danger class – fourth and fifth – are expected in the south Murmansk areaof the Novgorod, Arkhangelsk fields и The Republic Komi.

“High, in places extreme, fire danger is forecast in the south of the Ural and southern half of the Siberian Federal Districts, in the south of Buryatia, in the southern Trans-Baikal Territory, in the extreme south of the Amur Region, the south of the Jewish Autonomous Region, the south of Khabarovsk Territory, and the north and in places in the south of Primorsky Krai,” note Hydrometeorological Center specialists. The head of the Federal Forestry Agency also made a similar forecast in March of this year. Ivan Advisers.

"We're already at the peak in May, and we're forecasting a challenging fire situation in the Pskov and Novgorod regions. In the Central Federal District, it's Smolensk, Orel, Tver, Kursk, Bryansk, Belgorod, and Voronezh. In the Volga region, it's Bashkiria and Orenburg. In the Urals, it's Kurgan, Tyumen, and Chelyabinsk. In Siberia, it's Altai, Tomsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Khakassia, Tyva, and Krasnoyarsk. And in the Far East, it's practically every region: Buryatia, Transbaikalia, Primorye, Amur Oblast, Sakhalin, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk, and Kamchatka." сказал Advisors.

April 18, Rosleskhoz сообщил on the need to put all forest firefighting forces and resources on high alert.