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Statistics

Data sets and statistics about fires, fire risk, firefighters and fire departments in the United States.

Firefighter fatalities in 2024

 

Home fire fatalities in 2024

 

The risk of death or injury from fire is not the same for everyone. For some groups of people, fire risk is more severe.

Men are more likely to die and be injured in fires.

GendersDeathsInjuries
Male63.8%61.4%
Female36.2%38.6%

National fire death rate: 13.0
National fire injury rate: 44.3

per million population (2021)

Our latest reports

Fatal Fires in Residential Buildings (2018-2020)

This topical report addresses the characteristics of fatal fires in residential buildings as reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System. Fatal fires in residential buildings most often started in bedrooms (27%).

Fire Department Overall Run Profile as Reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (2020)

Fire departments provide invaluable services to communities nationwide. To understand the full role they play in a community, this topical report profiles fire department run activity as reflected in the 2020 NFIRS data.

Recreational Vehicle (RV) Fires (2018-2020)

This data snapshot provides statistics on RV fire loss, time of alarm, fires by day and month, fire cause, and leading areas of fire origin.

Portable Heater Fires in Residential Buildings (2017-2019)

While portable heater fires in residential buildings were only 3% of all heating fires in residential buildings, their consequences were substantial, accounting for 41% of fatal heating fires in residential buildings. Many of these fires were preventable, as human error was a contributing factor to the fire.

Fire Estimate Summary Series

Residential building fire causes

2022 estimate of residential building fires: 374,300

Cooking was the leading cause of home fires in 2022.

47.7%
Cooking
9.3%
Heating
8.8%
Unintentional, careless
7.0%
Electrical malfunction

Get statistics on residential building fires

U.S. fire department responses (2022)

Emergency medical services (EMS) calls are by far the leading incident type that U.S. fire departments respond to.

See how your state compares
Source: National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) 5.0
EMS and Rescue65.2
Good intent11.3
False alarms7.9
Service calls7.7
Fires4.0
All other3.9

Fires, deaths, injuries and dollar loss

Fires (2013-2022)

2013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Fires1240000129800013455001342000131950013185001291500138850013535001504500

Fire deaths (2013-2022)

2013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Deaths3240327532803390340036553704350038003790

Fire injuries (2013-2022)

2013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Injuries15925157751570014650146701520016600152001470013250

Fire dollar loss (2013-2022)

(Adjusted to 2022 $)
YearDollar loss
201314478418227
201414346196924
201517654350490
201616584519014
201727460284758
201829835759258
201916964710921
202024725356457
202117233995774
202218072000000
2013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Dollar loss14.514.317.716.627.529.817.024.717.2218.1

Excludes large $ loss fires (2013-2022)

(Adjusted to 2022 $)
YearDollar loss
201313950160105
201414346196924
201515246602311
201615473681809
201715521030516
201815384063367
201916964710921
202016583832333
202116501737259
202218072000000
2013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Dollar loss14.014.315.215.515.515.417.016.616.518.1

Trends

Fires1,504,500
in 2022
+12.2%
from 2013
Deaths3,790
in 2022
+18.6%
from 2013
Injuries13,250
in 2022
-9.5%
from 2013
$ Loss*$18.1 billion
in 2022
+28.9%
from 2013
No Large $$18.1 billion
in 2022
+24.5%
from 2013

Source: National Fire Protection Association

  • 2013: The direct dollar loss includes the Black Forest Fire in Colorado, which totaled $420,500,000 in damage.
  • 2015: The direct dollar loss includes the Valley and Butte Wildfires in California with an estimated property loss of $1,950,000,000.
  • 2016: The direct dollar loss includes the Gatlinburg, Tennessee, wildfires with an estimated property loss of $911,000,000.
  • 2017: The direct dollar loss includes a $10,000,000,000 loss for Northern California wildfires.
  • 2018: The direct dollar loss includes $12,400,000,000 in losses from California wildfires.
  • 2020: The direct dollar loss includes $4,200,000,000 losses in California wildland urban interface (WUI) fires and a $3 billion naval ship fire in California.
  • 2021: The direct dollar loss includes $678,000,000 losses in California WUI fires.
Fire Estimate Summary Series

Nonresidential building fire causes

2022 estimate of nonresidential building fires: 129,500

27.6%
Cooking
14.6%
Intentional
12.8%
Unintentional, careless
6.2%
Electrical malfunction
6.2%
heating

Get statistics on nonresidential building fires

General property use (2022)

Fires by general property use

48.5%
Outside
24.3%
Residential structure
12.9%
Vehicles
9.5%
Nonresidential structure
4.7%
Other

Source: National Fire Incident Reporting System

fire departments are listed in the National Fire Department Registry.

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