The European Commission set up the necessary procedures to develop coherent forest fire information system for Europe. Several services of the European Commission (EC), including the EC Joint Research Center, are working to establish the so-called European Forest Fires Information System (EFFIS). EFFIS is designed to store the existing information on forest fires collected at the country level in the European Union (EU), and to incorporate information on fire risk and fire damages assessment derived through the use of advanced methods. Example of this latter information is the data derived by two of the existing modules on fire risk and fire damage assessment. The first one is referred to as the European Forest Fire Risk Forecasting System (EFFRFS) and provides forest fire risk fore-cast during the peak of the fire season. The second module, referred to as the European Forest Fire Damage Assessment System (EFFDAS), evaluates, through the processing of satellite imagery, the damage caused by forest fires. Fire risk and burnt area mapping methodologies in the systems are harmonized at the EU level, which permits the extraction of coherent information for Europe, and the inter-comparison of fire risk and fire damages between European countries or regions. The EFFIS is a dynamic system that incorporates information on forest fires as it becomes available. It is intended that the system be used by a wide audience. Thus, it was developed as a web interface system in which users can retrieve information for any area of interest in Europe.