A hotel fire occurred in Shirahama, Wakayama prefecture on November 17th1998. This building fire was one of the widest burning area of building firesin Japan. During this fire, there was high wind velocity at about Tin/sec. Atthe same time, there was a lot of number of fire brands. We surveyed thedistribution of fire brands and spot fires due to this fire by exploration andquestionnaire. As a consequence, it was found that through exploration andquestionnaire that there is a relation between the distribution of fire brandsand the size of fire brands etc.