Also, the poor really had nowhere to go and no means of getting there, so they ended up staying in their houses �as long as till the very fire touched them� and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the waterside to another. A great proportion of the country�s wealth was lost (five sixths of the city damaged, 13,200 houses, 84 churches, 44 livery company halls and many public buildings). Over 100,000 people were made homeless and thousands were ruined financially.
There were only 6 recorded fatalities.
Following the fire, Charles II formulated some of the first fire prevention and Building Control legislation when it was order that there should be regulated distances between buildings.