Reported in this paper is an exercise that contributes to the fire load database for fire severity analysis. The movable fuel load data was collected by the weight-inventory method from a specific building type, namely school buildings located within the metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia. The data was analysed to obtain statistical descriptions of fire load density in terms of probability density distributions. The results were compared with the similar data obtained from other countries. It was found that while basic statistical characteristics show similarities globally, some other characteristics, particularly the 90th percentile, may differ from one country to the other. This outcome suggests that fire load selection for design fires in fire safety engineering design and assessment should be better based on local data and a careful review of the unified approach in the international fire engineering guidelines is warranted.

本文中报告的一项练习有助于建立火灾负荷数据库，以进行火灾严重性分析。可移动燃料负荷数据是通过重量清单方法从特定建筑类型收集的，即位于澳大利亚悉尼大都市区内的学校建筑。对数据进行分析以获得关于概率密度分布的火灾荷载密度的统计描述。结果与从其他国家获得的类似数据进行了比较。研究发现，虽然基本统计特征在全球范围内表现出相似性，但其他一些特征，尤其是第 90 个百分点，可能因一个国家而异。