In boreal environments, wildfires are expected to decrease in frequency and/or size with latitude/elevation, mainly in response to climate, as well as fuel availability and type. Furthermore, fire frequency and biomass burned are supposed to have been higher during warm and dry periods of the Holocene (last ∼ 11,000 years). We tested these assumptions in northern Finland by using charcoal analysis to reconstruct Holocene regional fire regimes from eight lake sediment sequences sampled within four different environments in terms of elevation, latitude and vegetation type: (1) low latitude/mid elevation coniferous forests (Pinus sylvestris and Picea abies); (2) mid latitude/low elevation pine forests (Pinus sylvestris); (3) mid