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This article has discussed comprehensively about the concept, classification, estimating methods and grading standards of economic losses of forest fire. The contents of economic losses of forest fires includes the losses of forest resources, direct economic losses, indirect economic losses and the economic losses on ecological environment. Different estimating methods are adopted for each of them. And, according to the amount of economic losses, forest fires are divided into extraordinarily serious forest fire, serious forest fire and ordinary forest fire.