According to the department, in two weeks the fire hazardous season will be open throughout Russia.
"So far, he started only in three regions: completely the Astrakhan region and the Chechen Republic and partly in the Khabarovsk Territory," TASS quotes him on the All-Russian selector on the topic of forest fires.
The minister noted that thermal points have already been recorded in the Jewish Autonomous Region, the Trans-Baikal and Primorsky Territories.
Earlier, the Ministry of Natural Resources told about an increase in the level of fire hazard in forests.