In this study, a quantitative structure-property relationship was presented to estimate lower flammability limit temperature (LFLT) of pure compounds. This relationship is a multi-linear equation and has six parameters. These chemical structure-based parameters were selected from 1664 molecular-based parameters by genetic algorithm multivariate linear regression (GA-MLR). Since 1171 compounds were used to develop this equation, the model can be used to estimate the LFLT of a wide range of pure compounds. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.