Fire is one of the environmental risks that is expected to increase in connection to climate change. Fire will be more common in regions where it is today less thought of. EU-FireSmart is a project whose objectives are to identify obstacles that hinder the effectiveness of forest fire preventive measures and to derive recommendations to integrate prevention practices into standard forest management plans. The project tackles both the European and local level of addressing forest fire prevention, where the local level has been covered through the implementation of test areas in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Documents containing information about different methods and practices of forest fire prevention in Europe have been gathered in a database which now contains more than 1,400 entries. The material available in this database has been analysed according to the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of different land management practices. This analysis has been performed considering different subjects. The analysis is then used to derive practical recommendations on how to turn current negative fire prevention factors into viable and proactive factors able to strengthen prevention methods. Agroforestry has been found to be a strong preventive method and the strengths and weaknesses of the method as well as the practical recommendations for increasing the preventive values of agroforestry are presented.