Assessing fire frequency and structural fire behaviour of England statistics according to BS PD 7974-7

Abstract Contemporary structural fire statistics are fundamental in engineering design practice to evaluate likelihood and consequence of for different property types, investigate how safety measures impact spread. British Standard PD 7974-7:2003 has recently been updated using USA statistics; this paper compares current England (named UK statistics) one public Home Office dataset. overestimates frequency with values up 5 times greater than the ones found USA. When is plotted against total floor space, power laws positive or negative exponent polynomial functions provide better approximations data codes. Average area damage from compared datasets where size usually well confined room origin at 20% fires based on publicly available exceeding specific areas considered, underestimates damage, more evident when sprinklers absent they present.