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The several that many fires occurred simultaneously at the time of the Kobe earthquake in 1995 became urban area fires. Thereupon, we analyzed the fire spread situation of urban area fires of Kobe city in this research. We used the data that was obtained by Fire Department of Kobe city and Tokyo Fire Department. The fire data that we analyzed has over about 10,000 m² of burn-out area. It is as a future research theme about the fire spread condition which fire fighting water is considered. The fire spread model that considered bum-out area, fire front length and also the fire spread speed, were examined in this paper.