Your time to fire(steel)?

[Toddy]

How big a fire ?
I can make a flare up in under five minutes in those conditions but I'd be scurrying about like a spider in a midge cloud trying to get enough firewood to keep it going much.

 

[Broch]

I think you've got the only answer you're likely to get - most people say, depending on resources, from under 5 to 20 minutes.

What more do you want?

 

[TeeDee]

 

[Le Loup]

too true Keith, but I think he means with no charred punkwood/charred cloth, just the actual flint and steel

No problem Broch, I can do that.
Keith.

 

[Brizzlebush]

Brilliant, drop a spark into a bunch of bushcrafters and.....

I'm with most answers here. 5-20 mins for a twig fire without pre-prepared tinder.

 

[gra_farmer]

I have done this a number of times on my own for a coffee, and one time timed after jumping in a cool/cold river. For me it would still be around the 5 min mark, ideally in birch woodland.

You will be amazed how fast you can collect and light a fire when you need too.

But in not ideal surroundings it would be 5 - 20 mins

 

[swe_lapland]

Its much depending on the enviroment. In a pine forest like I live in now, I think Id get one going in less than five minutes. But then I need fuel to keep it going and so on offcourse. Its hard to tell. Never been in a situation where I needed to get it going really fast, I like to take my time. But with fatwood always at hand from the twigs, its really easy.