对中国的火灾统计数据与社会经济数据之间的关系进行了研究，发现中国火灾与社会经济因素的关系和国外相反:中国的火灾形势在经济越发达的地方越严重，并且随着经济的发展更趋严重。讨论了火灾与经济水平及教育水平的关系，提出了火灾和经济的更为全面的关系，即随着经济的发展，火灾形势是先严重后趋缓和。根据所讨论的结果对中国未来一段时期的火灾情况做出了一些预测。

This paper studies the relationship between fire and socioeconomic factors of China based on the statistics data from 1997 to 2000. The result indicates that the relationship of fire and socioeconomic factors of China is different from that of developed countries distinctly. In China, fire situation is more serious in areas with more developed regions and tends to be more serious with the increase of economy. More comprehensive relationship of fire and economy has been proposed by discussing the relationship among fire and economy and education, i.e. , fire increases at first, then decreases with the development of economy. The prediction of fire situation in the future has been made based on the analysis of the paper.