Since calculating the fire resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) columns is a computationally expensive procedure and, in general, requires specialty software as well as knowledge of heat transfer principles, there is a need for accurate, simplified methods that can be easily understood and applied. Over the years, many simplified methods have been proposed to assess the capacity of RC columns during fire exposure. In this paper, nine of the available simplified methods are first summarized. Then, their utilization to estimate the capacity of columns, which were experimentally tested by others, was examined. Five methods were found to have comparable, reasonably accurate predictions. Two of them were more suitable for design due to their ease of implementation.