数据收集在消防安全中至关重要，原因有几个:评估任何法规的影响，为火灾风险分析提供概率和重力数据，以及选择消防安全工程中的示例场景。然而，在本文件出版时，从地方或国家的角度收集和分析了火灾的统计数据，因此很难进行任何比较。需要统一的第一步是术语问题。 本文件定义了与火灾统计数据相关的术语，以补充该特定应用领域的ISO 13943。

Data collection is of prime importance in fire safety, for several reasons: assessing the effect of any regulation, providing probability and gravity data to fire risk analysis, and the selection of scenarios for examples in fire safety engineering. Statistical data collection of fires is nevertheless collected and analysed from local or national perspectives at the time of publication of this document, making any comparison difficult. A first step identified in the need for harmonization is the issue of terminology. This document defines terminology relating to fire statistical data, in order to supplement ISO 13943 for this specific field of application.