International Journal of Engineering and Technology

The living conditions and environment of humans change depending on the climate. In Korea, the number of fires changes continuously with the seasons. In this study, we quantitatively analyzed fire occurrence trends and determined the relationship between fire occurrences and weather information. We verified the relationship between the weather and fire occurrences by using preprocessed data to obtain the hourly frequency of fire occurrence for each weather factor. We divided the frequency of fire occurrence by the number of hours within each range according to the weather. By analyzing the relations between different types of fire data (e.g., the fire type, source of ignition, cause of ignition, and material that first ignited) and the weather data, we obtained trends indicating the relation between each weather variable and each fire variable. Our results can help with understanding the influence of weather on fire occurrences and thus help prevent weather-related fire occurrences.