Understanding the Fire Rating on Your Safe

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fire rating on safe
09 Sep

When you are looking for the perfect safe to keep your valuable and sentimental assets secure from the threat of fire, you should consider investing in a high-quality, long-lasting safe that is built to protect your cash, personal identification documents, important legal paperwork, family heirlooms, digital materials and so on. This means you must look at the fire rating on the safe you’re purchasing and understand what it is. 

Fire rating is the level of protection your safe can offer to the valuable and irreplaceable contents inside the safe in the event of a fire. When we talk about the fire-resistance of a safe, it is important to understand that no safe on the market is completely fireproof. Security safes are built to be resistant to fire to a certain extent, protecting your valuables in fire for one to two hours depending on the model of safe. 

Understanding the fire rating on your new safe

New safes will be graded based on a combination of temperature and time to provide an accurate and simple representation of the level of fire resistance offered. 

Safeguard Safes stock a wide range of new fire resistant safes and fire resistant filing cabinets, follow the links below to check out what’s available.

Understanding the fire rating on your second hand safe

For the second hand safes we stock, we would estimate the pre-owned safe’s endurance to extreme heat based on our years of expertise installing and customising bespoke pre used safes. 

Prior to the 1950s, antique safes were not built to meet a standardised fire rating. As a result, they are not classified as “fire resistant safes”. This means that it’s impossible to predict how long an antique safe will last in the case of a fire. On the other hand, antique safes are quite sturdy, and there’s a good chance they contain strong fire-resistant features within the safe as most of them were designed to be bomb-proof. 

Check out our second hand fire resistant safe, pre-owned fire resistant filing cabinets and preused fire & theft resistant safes. 

Keeping your digital media safe from fire

We stock a range of safes designed especially to protect your valuable digital media from the threat of fire. 

Media drawers can also be installed into a new or second hand safe to give all of the fire resistance you require. Contact our friendly safe experts to enquire today. 

Check out the common metal melting point for your reference
  • Gold: 1063°C
  • Aluminum: 660°C
  • Brass: 930°C
  • Zinc: 420°C
  • Aluminum Bronze*: 1027-1038°C
  • Copper: 1084°C
  • Tungsten: 3400°C
  • Platinum: 1770°C
  • Carbon Steel*: 1425-1540°C
  • Stainless Steel*: 1375 – 1530°C
  • Inconel: 1390-1425°C
  • Cast Iron: 1204°C
  • Chromium: 1860°C
  • Lead: 328°C
  • Molybdenum: 2620°C
  • Nickel: 1453°C
  • Silver: 961°C
  • Titanium: 1670°C
Get in touch today!

If you have more questions about the fire rating on your safe, or if you need help with selecting the safe that best suits your needs, speak to our professional safe expert on 1300 764 971. We stock the largest stock of safes online, you’ll definitely find something that ticks all the boxes for you. If you need to relocate, repair, open or dispose a safe, we’re also here for you. We have a group of certified professionals with extensive experience in the relocation, removal, servicing and safecracking of all types of security safes.

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