fire riskn.
/ˈfʌɪə rɪsk/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)r ˌrɪsk/ 1. Insurance. Exposure to the possibility of financial loss because of damage caused by fire; an instance of this. Occasionally also: a property considered with regard to the likelihood of loss caused by fire. Cf. risk n. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance risk (collective) > specific risks covered
fire risk1802
fire hazard1846
exposure1867
1802 Notes Merchant of N.-Y. upon Commerc. Connexions 81 This establishment..will get insured against fire risk all merchandises consigned to the said establishment.
1814 J. T. B. Beaumont Life Insurance 24 Fire risks (unlike those of Life) are as great in the first year of their insurance as in the fiftieth.
1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 86 Joint-stock companies for the underwriting of fire-risks.
1867 C. J. Bunyon Law of Fire Insurance iii. 40 Gasworks are esteemed a fire risk of special hazard.
1909 N.Y. Times 5 June 4/1 Rochester..was considered a poor fire risk, and that hereafter local policy owners would have to pay largely increased rates.
2004 Jrnl. Risk & Insurance 71 368 One would expect demand to be lower for the SFR homes if fire risk was a major component of the insurance demand.
2. The risk of an outbreak of fire, or of harm or damage to an individual or property resulting from this; an instance of risk of this type. Also: something which increases the risk of an outbreak of fire.
ΚΠ
1856 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 23 May 450/1 Examining the whole question of fire risk philosophically, we are constrained to regard fire extinguishers and fire escapes..as mere temporary means or expedients to work on with a very imperfect system of building.
1886 Brownstown (Indiana) Banner 2 Sept. 2/1 Glass floors are coming into very general use in Paris. Although they cost more [than wooden floors] at first..there is far less fire risk.
1907 Installation News Mar. 7/1 The Gunpowder Manufactory at Minden, where Simplex Screwed Conduits have been used because of the fire risk.
1966 Lancet 24 Dec. 1405/2 Little is known of the fire-risks to man in oxygen-rich environments.
1998 M. Cheesbrough District Lab. Pract. in Trop. Countries 75/2 Some flammable chemicals are a more serious fire risk than others.
2013 Irish Farmers Jrnl. 6 Apr. 37/2 Check Met Eireann fire weather index that indicates localised fire risk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1802