國內住宅火災頻傳，每每造成大量的生命財產損失，付出之社會成本難以估計。為了解現今住宅火災之危險性，本研究透過高雄地區近三年(101-103年)火災統計資料之樣本，進行「火災類型」、「起火建築物類別」、「起火建築物高度」、「起火處所」、「起火時段」及「起火原因」等六個構面分析，顯示火災統計中，以獨立住宅約佔47%為最高，而起火原因前四名分別為電氣設備、人為縱火、菸蒂及爐火烹調。因此，強化獨立住宅火災預防與增設住宅消防安全設備，為消防單位當前重點實施要務。

The frequent occurrence of residential fire causes tremendous loss of lives and properties and conceals various dangerous elements in our communities. In order to understand the causes of the residential fires, we analyze statistical residential fire data of Kaohsiung City in the past three years (101-103) and classifies the data into 6 categories which are: "type of fire"; "fire building category"; "fire building height"; "fire place"; "fire period" and "Cause of the fire ". Analysis indicates that the 47% of the overall fire accidents are independent residential fire. The major causes of the fire are: electrical equipment; arson; cigarette butts and fire cooking. At this stage, the priority fire department should implementation is to strengthen the independence of residential fire prevention program and to acquire more residential fire safety equipment.