Campfires

Campfires may only be lit with the landowner’s permission, or in the special public campfire sites and cooking shelters in many national parks and other popular areas, where firewood is provided free of charge.

• Campfires may not be lit anywhere during forest fire warnings.
• Forest fire warnings are announced during dry periods in the local media and on the website of the
Finnish Meteorological Institute (www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi).
• Camping stoves may be used with care anywhere.
• Use the firewood provided at public campfire sites sparingly.
• If you light a campfire elsewhere, choose a place someone else has already used if possible.
• You may collect sticks and firewood from the ground, but not from living trees.
• Do not burn any wastes that will give off toxic fumes.
• Make sure you put out your campfire carefully.
• Metsähallitus has decided to grant general permission to light fires in the terrain in Lapland, Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and Northern Karelia. Dry branches, twigs and small stumps can be used as kindling. In places where there is a maintained campfire site within 500 metres, all fires must be lit at the campfire site. In nature reserves for which a maintenance and utilisation plan or regulations have been issued, you must comply with the items outlined in these documents when lighting fires.