Fire

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Effects of a fire: Burnt down structures in a town.

Fire

     is a type of disaster that can threaten the existence of your whole town, if no wells or nearby rivers are available to put the fire out.

The spread of fire from building to building may be affected by the following factors.

Spacing - Fire will not jump over a certain number of tiles, possibly 5. It has been reported that fire will jump 4 tiles. The number of spaces between buildings may decrease the chance fire will jump.

Aspects - a building may be more likely to catch fire if it is surrounded on multiple sides by fire.

Building Materials - A wooden building may catch more readily than a stone building. The anecdotal consensus is strong on this for houses, but less-reported for civic and commercial buildings (for example, wooden tailors vs. stone churches.

Building Types - Stockpiles, Farms, Orchards, and Pastures might not catch on fire. Other buildings may catch on fire with equal probability (factoring in building materials), or certain structures may catch on fire more readily.

Fires have been reported to have started in Housing, and Storage Barns. It is possible they originate in other structures.

Firefighting

Citizens will fight the fire, carry water from Wells and possibly from Lakes and Rivers.

Citizen Firefighters - Which citizens bring water to fires? (all citizens, only free workers, only laborers, ?)

Wells - Probably keep a fire from spreading.

Proximity to Rivers or Lakes - will citizens bring water from these sources?

Prioritizing - "Prioritizing" the burning building, or the well itself, or both.

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   Other Factors - Education? Happiness? Population density?

Spacing

   fire will jump a 3-tile separation. quote

   will jump through a 4x orchard from one building to anothe.r quote (this thread)

Buffering

   in a 2x___ row of houses, 2 unburned houses in a column may prevent spreading, but if one of them catches, the other may catch. quote, with img

Citizen Firefighters

   non-labourers will fight fires. quote

Where Fires Start

   houses
   barn quote

Which Buildings Burn

   to be added

Other Factors

   to be added