Study on forest fire direct loss assessment

Forest fire loss statistics is becoming a crucial tool in decision-making and in helping to reduce loss to life and property due to fires around the world. Estimating forest fire direct loss is important pieces of data when assessing fire at local and national levels. So far, the fire direct loss assessment work abroad has been greatly developed; however, in our country it is yet on an initial stage without a unified system. And current forest fire direct loss assessment only stays in simple statistics and lacks the deep data intellectualized and analysis. Based on the current situation status of forest fire direct loss assessment, we divided the direct loss of forest fire into standing trees resource loss, commodity wood loss, fixed assets loss, current assets loss, forest by-product loss, agriculture and animal husbandry product loss, fire fighting expenses, personnel casualty loss, resident´s property loss and made a quantitative and qualitative assessment of forest fire loss through the data of self-made forest fire case.