A material, substance, or action that increases the likelihood of an accidental fire occurring.
electric wiring is a potential fire risk
mass noun additional safety features reduce fire risk
Example sentencesExamples
- Our main goal was to keep the aesthetic values of the forest, while decreasing the fire risk.
- We have less random camping as people are using the campsites, which lowers the fire risk and other damage.
- If there was any such fire risk, they had no means of knowing that it existed.
- Halogen desk and floor lamps are fire risks; replace them with more efficient, cooler-burning fluorescent lamps.
- The tech company recalled up to 27,000 batteries that are suspected of being a fire risk.
- The basin tap only produced boiling water from a roaring gas-fired boiler which looked like a fire risk.
- Evidence for bath-house structures is frequently found as they were usually constructed in stone to minimize fire risk.
- I was not told that there was any fire risk on the job that I had been given on the hot wire cutting machine.
- Allowing more logging that thins out the national forests will both yield valuable resources and reduce fire risks.
- They could only afford to live in wooden houses which were a serious fire risk in a hot country.