As one of the most sensitive terrestrial ecosystems to the climate change,boreal forests have evidently increased fire frequency and burned area in recent years. Therefore,it is of great significance to quality fire controlling factors and predict fire dynamics for maintaining the stability of the boreal forest ecosystem. In this study,we reviewed the major controlling factors to the fire occurrence,and the methods to predict fire occurrence and its dynamics under climate change scenarios. Previous studies showed that the large-scales fire controlling factor is climate,whereas the local-scale factors include vegetation,available fuels,topography and human activities. The recent prediction of forest fire dynamics under the global climate warming attaches more importance to the roles of climate and local-scale controlling factors. In boreal forests of China,it is essential to conduct the fire regime prediction at a larger scale. This study pointed out that the key problem of boreal forests fire regimes prediction is how to determine the key fire controlling factors in multiple scales and how to improve the existing methods of fire prediction.