Tesfaye Zeleke (PhD)Messay Mulugeta (PhD)Yemesrach Yichilal2024-12-182024-12-182021-10https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/3896The study examines the coping capacities and setbacks of urban households in Addis Ababa, specifically in Arada Sub-city. The research uses interviews, focus group discussions, and secondary data from the FDRMC, Arada Sub-city Administration, and Central Statistics Agency. It reveals that fire coping capacities and setbacks coexist, with administrative problems, lack of resources, public awareness, traffic jams, and a lack of a unified fire code hindering efforts. Some parts of Arada Sub-city are more vulnerable due to the frequency of fires in the last five years and the quality of house structures. Fire vulnerability varies at different times of the year, with windy and dry seasons being most fire-vulnerable, while Belg and Kiremt are more resilient due to wetter and more humid weather. The study concludes by identifying two aspects: coping capacities and setbacks to resiliency exhibited by urban households in the face of fire risks. Major pro-active urban fire vulnerabilities include a mismatch between current DRM policy and practice, high population density and overcrowding, unchecked urbanization, unsuitable urban planning, and sub-standard housing. Competing phase setbacks include misalignment of regulations and existing policy, high population density, overcrowding, lack of resources, and invading established Police parameters.enResilienceRevealed Coping CapacitiesRevealed SetbacksLatent Coping CapacitiesLatent SetbacksThesis