We investigate extinction properties of solutions for the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problem of the nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation u(t) - d Delta u + ku(p) = integral(Omega) u(q)(x, t)dx with p, q is an element of (0, 1) and k, d > 0. We show that q = p is the critical extinction exponent. Moreover, the precise decay estimates of solutions before the occurrence of the extinction are derived.