Abstract
According to damage estimation report by local governments and the government, post-earthquake urban fire spreading will occur necessarily and cause huge amount of not only physical damage but casualties. Post-earthquake urban fire has been main issue for disaster prevention since starting to take countermeasures for disaster prevention more than fifty years ago. The situation of urbanized area has changed. The performance of fire proof in urbanized area has increased apparently, however, urbanization has expanded broadly and made huge area of high dense built-up area. And then basic awareness and ability of people for fire incidents has become weak apparently. As for urban plan for post-earthquake fire prevention. Tokyo metropolitan government has implement surely. This paper mentions how post-earthquake fire risk and casualties caused by them shown in a report of earthquake damage estimation should be understood and discusses challenges we should do in the near future to make risk decrease.
