Research Article

An Integrated Method for Fire Risk Assessment in Residential Buildings

Table 2

Linguistic variables described by the triangular membership number.

Likelihood of building fire (L)Severity of building fire (S)Triangular fuzzy number

Highly unlikely (HU)Negligible (NE)(0.00, 0.00, 0.25)
Unlikely slight (US)Slight (SL)(0.00, 0.25, 0.50)
Likely (LI)Moderate (MO)(0.25, 0.50, 0.75)
Reasonably likely (RL)Serious (SE)(0.50, 0.75, 1.00)
Highly likely (HL)Catastrophic (CA)(0.75, 1.00, 1.00)