Abstract: In order to enrich the basic data of fire load in traditional wood-framed villages in China, this study took the traditional village of Lijiang Stone Town as the object of investigation, and selected 70 local residential houses, 18 inns and 2 office buildings as samples to investigate the types and densities of fire load of wooden buildings in the village. The results show that the mean value of total fire load density of residential buildings is 2 762 MJ/m2, the mean value for total fire load density of inns is 3 329.19 MJ/m2, and the mean value for fire load density of office buildings is 2 608.15 MJ/m2. The fire load densities of residential buildings and inns in this area obey the normal distribution.

Key words: traditional village, fire load density, fire hazard, wood-framed building