Brandgeschehens

Brandgeschehens is a German-language term used in fire safety and related fields to denote a fire incident or a related sequence of fire events. The word is formed from Brand (fire) and Geschehen (occurrence or event); the singular form is Brandgeschehen and the plural or possessive form is Brandgeschehens. In English-language texts, the term is often translated as fire incident or fire event, but Brandgeschehens carries a nuance of a concrete incident and its development rather than abstract fire risk.

In practice, Brandgeschehens encompasses the ignition, growth, spread, and suppression of a fire, as well as the resulting structural, environmental, and human impacts. It can describe a single fire event or, in some contexts, a series of connected fires that are considered part of one operational case (for example, a multi-site fire that is linked by cause or chronology). The term is commonly used in fire service documentation, insurance reporting, and statistical analyses within German-speaking regions.

Data on Brandgeschehens typically include location, building type, ignition cause, time of ignition and discovery, fire duration, fire load, extent of spread, resources deployed, and outcomes such as property damage and casualties. Analyses aim to identify risk factors, evaluate prevention measures, inform building codes and urban planning, and support insurance assessments. While widely used in German-language contexts, the term is less common in international or English-language fire literature, where more general terms like fire incident or fire event are preferred.