“The hotbeds of fire danger are now in the Komi Republic, in the Central Federal District - these are Lipetsk, Voronezh, Kursk, Tula regions. There are many regions in the Southern Federal District where there are conditions for the fifth class of fire hazard: there are Volgograd, Astrakhan, and Rostov regions, Kalmykia, and Krasnodar Territory, "TASS quoted him as saying.
Vilfand specified that natural fires are also possible in the North Caucasus Federal District, Altai, Krasnoyarsk Territories, and Irkutsk Region.
“This does not mean that forest fires will certainly be there. This means that there are conditions for their occurrence, ”- said the forecaster.
Earlier it became known that, as of August 24, 79 forest fires were active in Russia, which were actively extinguished.