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This document provides classifications for occupancy hazards according to NFPA 13 from 2002 including light, ordinary, and extra hazard occupancies. Light hazards have low combustible contents and low fire risk. Ordinary hazards are split into two groups with group 1 having low combustibility, moderate combustible quantities, and moderate fire risk, while group 2 has higher combustibility and quantities with moderate to high fire risk. Extra hazards also have two groups, with group 1 having very high combustible quantities, dust/lint risk, and rapidly developing high heat fires but low liquids, and group 2 having moderate to substantial flammable/combustible liquids or extensive combustible shielding. Examples of occupancy types for each classification are also provided.

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Design Calculation Sheet: Project No.: Date: Sheet No.: Computed By: Subject: Checked By: Approved by

This document provides classifications for occupancy hazards according to NFPA 13 from 2002 including light, ordinary, and extra hazard occupancies. Light hazards have low combustible contents and low fire risk. Ordinary hazards are split into two groups with group 1 having low combustibility, moderate combustible quantities, and moderate fire risk, while group 2 has higher combustibility and quantities with moderate to high fire risk. Extra hazards also have two groups, with group 1 having very high combustible quantities, dust/lint risk, and rapidly developing high heat fires but low liquids, and group 2 having moderate to substantial flammable/combustible liquids or extensive combustible shielding. Examples of occupancy types for each classification are also provided.

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Design calculation sheet

Project no.: Date: Sheet no.: 1 of 2 Computed by:

Subject: Checked by:

Approved by:

NFPA 13, 2002, CHAP V Classification of Occupancies.


Occupancy classifications for this standard shall relate to sprinkler design, installation, and water supply requirements only.
They shall not be intended to be a general classification of occupancy hazards.

5.2 Light Hazard Occupancies.


Light hazard occupancies shall be occupancies or portions of other occupancies where the quantity and/or combustibility of contents
is low and fires with relatively low rates of heat release are expected.

5.3 Ordinary Hazard Occupancies.


5.3.1* Ordinary Hazard (Group 1).
Ordinary hazard (Group 1) occupancies shall be occupancies or portions of other occupancies where combustibility is low, quantity of combustibles is moderate,
stockpiles of combustibles do not exceed 8 ft (2.4 m), and fires with moderate rates of heat release are expected.
5.3.2* Ordinary Hazard (Group 2).
Ordinary hazard (Group 2) occupancies shall be occupancies or portions of other occupancies where the quantity and combustibility of contents is moderate to high,
stockpiles do not exceed 12 ft (3.7 m), and fires with moderate to high rates of heat release are expected.

5.4 Extra Hazard Occupancies.


5.4.1* Extra Hazard (Group 1).
Extra hazard (Group 1) occupancies shall be occupancies or portions of other occupancies where the quantity and combustibility of contents is very high and dust, lint
lints, or other materials are present, introducing the probability of rapidly developing fires with high rates of heat release
but with little or no combustible or flammable liquids.
5.4.2* Extra Hazard (Group 2).
Extra hazard (Group 2) occupancies shall include occupancies with moderate to substantial amounts of flammable or combustible liquids or occupancies
where shielding of combustibles is extensive.
Design calculation sheet
Project no.: Date: Sheet no.: 2 of 2 Computed by:

Subject: Checked by:

Approved by:

NFPA 13, 2002, Appendix A, A-5-2.

Light hazard occupancies include occupancies having uses and conditions similar to the following:
Churches, Clubs, Eaves and overhangs, if of combustible construction with no combustibles beneath, Educational, Hospitals, Institutional, Libraries
except large stack rooms, Museums, Nursing or convalescent homes, Offices, including data processing, Residential, Restaurant seating areas,
Theaters and auditoriums, excluding stages and prosceniums, Unused attics

Ordinary hazard occupancies (Group 1) include occupancies having uses and conditions similar to the following:
Automobile parking and showrooms, Bakeries, Beverage manufacturing, Canneries, Dairy products manufacturing and processing, Electronic plants,
Glass and glass products manufacturing, Laundries, Restaurant service areas

Ordinary hazard occupancies (Group 2) include occupancies having uses and conditions similar to the following:
Cereal mills, Chemical plants — ordinary, Confectionery products, Distilleries, Dry cleaners, Feed mills, Horse stables, Leather goods manufacturing,
Libraries — large stack room areas, Machine shops, Metal working, Mercantile, Paper and pulp mills, Paper process plants, Piers and wharves,
Post offices, Printing and publishing, Repair garages, Resin application area, Stages, Textile manufacturing, Tire manufacturing,
Tobacco products manufacturing, Wood machining, Wood product assembly

Extra hazard occupancies (Group 1) include occupancies having uses and conditions similar to the following:
Aircraft hangars (except as governed by NFPA 409, Standard on Aircraft Hangars), Combustible hydraulic fluid use areas, Die casting,
Metal extruding, Plywood and particle board manufacturing, Printing [using inks having flash points below 100°F (38°C)], Rubber reclaiming,
compounding, drying, milling, vulcanizing, Saw mills, Textile picking, opening, blending, garnetting, or carding, combining of cotton,
synthetics, wool shoddy, or burlap, Upholstering with plastic foams

Extra hazard occupancies (Group 2) include occupancies having uses and conditions similar to the following:
Asphalt saturating, Flammable liquids spraying, Flow coating, Manufactured home or modular building assemblies (where finished enclosure
is present and has combustible interiors), Open oil quenching, Plastics processing, Solvent cleaning, Varnish and paint dipping

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