Fire Risk Assessment: A Systematic Review of the Methodology andFunctional Areas

Fire is a physical and social phenomenon that affects both individuals and the environment. Fire risk assessment is acritical part of a fire prevention program. In this process, the fire risk associated with the possibility of occurrence andseverity of damage resulting from the fire is estimated and calculated. In this paper, a classification scheme and asystematic literature review are presented in order to classify and interpret the current researches on fire riskassessment methodologies and applications. Based on the scheme, 93 scholarly papers from 13 journals arecategorized into application areas and other categories. The application areas include the papers on the topics ofenvironmental impact, production and industry, transportation, buildings, power industry, oil and gas industry, urbanfires and other topics. Scholarly papers are also classified by (1) year of publication, (2) journal of publication, (3)year of publication and application areas and (4) authors’ nationality. The survey results show that the largest numberof papers was published during the period 2010-2012 with 31 (33.33%), the most of the studies have been carried outon environmental impact (47.31%), the journal of Forest Ecology and Management had the highest percentage ofarticles with 26.88%. It is hoped that the paper can meet the needs of researchers for easy references of fire riskassessment methodologies and applications. Therefore, this work would be able to provide useful insights into theanatomy of the fire-risk assessment methods, and suggest academic researchers and experts a framework for futureattempts and researches

Fire Risk Assessment: A Systematic Review of the Methodology andFunctional Areas Keywords:

Fire Risk , Fire Analysis , Fire Risk Assessment , FRA