長期以來消防實務單位對於消防安全所檢視的部分，大多著眼於建築物內部的消防設備及人員防方管理等面向之落實與否，大部分學者之火災危險度評估也都針對各類型用途建築物做研究，僅有少數是針對社區或街廓等區域型火災危險因子進行探討。本研究經由區域性巨觀角的角度，蒐集相關文獻資料，參考國內及各主要先進國家所公布之消防或火災統計資料，且考量火災指標所應具備之條件，以適當之評選原則，挑選出可以做為國內各縣衡量火災狀況之指標值，包括；每千戶火災次數、每萬人火災次數、每百萬人火災死亡人數、每百萬人火災受傷人數及平均每件火災財務損失。至於影響因素方面；各縣市消防機關人員及狀備狀況、人口因素、警政支出、治安因素、弱勢族群因素、教育因素、生活水準及經濟水準因素等數據資料，可用以做為分析影響火災指標之依據。

For a long time, the practices of fire departments for fire mostly focus on the installations of fire protection systems and management of fire prevention. Various researches in fire risk assessments for different kinds of building occupancies have been done, however rare researches related to community-based or urban block-based (namely, regional-type) fire risk factors are studied. The research collects the relevant reference and consults the domestic fire statistics and those published by major developed countries via the macro-view. With the proper assessment principle, this study considers the qualifications for fire indexes and selects the value that could measure the fire conditions for each county or city in Taiwan. possible fire indexes include number of fires per thousand households, number of fires per ten thousand people, number of deaths caused by fires per million people, number of injuries caused by fires per million people, average loss per fire incident, etc. Relevant influencing factors: including personnel and equipment conditions of every county or city fire department, population factors, budget of police department, public security factors, disadvantaged minority factors, education factors as well as, factors of living standard and economic level could be regarded as the basis for analyzing the influences of fire indexes.