The establishment of“city evacuation zones”, which were initially designed to prevent fire-spreading caused by aerial bombing during the World War II, marked an important event in Taipei’s history. The Taiwan Sotokufu in Japanese era established these city evacuation zones hastily in 1944-1945 to quarantine the areas with high concentration of Japanese wooden houses as they were easily burned out by aerial bombing. While these city evacuation zones originally were not part of the city development plan, they survive after the war and leave a mark on city’s landscape. Using the aerial photos taken by the U.S. air force during and after the war, this study identifies several city evacuation zones in Taipei. Although most of the city evacuation zones became wide streets and most Japanese wooden houses have disappeared, city evacuation zones still shape today’s street patterns in Taipei which can be viewed as a war heritage under the concept of “noncombustible city” for the air defenses during the World War II.