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Nonresidential Building Other Unintentional, Careless Fire Trends (2014-2023)

National estimates

The 2023 national estimates for nonresidential building other unintentional, careless fires and loss show that there were:

  • 13,800 fires.
  • $881,200,000 in dollar loss.

Deaths and injuries by individual causes are not shown, as small numbers of nonresidential building casualties are reported to the NFIRS, and many of the fires that caused these casualties have insufficient information to determine fire cause.

Overall trends

Overall trends for nonresidential building other unintentional, careless fires and loss for the 10-year period of 2014 to 2023 show the following:

  • A 49% increase in fires.
  • A 51% increase in dollar loss.*
    A $38,000,000 Bartlett, Illinois, warehouse fire and an $81,000,000 manufacturing fire in Portage, Wisconsin, contributed to the 2022 and 2023 dollar-loss peaks, respectively.
*This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2023 value.

Fires and dollar loss

Deaths and injuries by individual causes are not shown, as small numbers of nonresidential building casualties are reported to the NFIRS, and many of the fires that caused these casualties have insufficient information to determine fire cause.

Nonresidential building other unintentional, careless fires (2014-2023)

2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Fires10000109001070012300119001280012200141001650013800

Nonresidential building other unintentional, careless fire dollar loss (2014-2023)

YearDollar loss
2014496900000
2015682600000
2016685000000
2017583500000
2018613900000
2019516100000
2020634800000
2021609600000
2022947100000
2023881200000
2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Dollar loss496.9682.6685.0583.5613.9516.1634.8609.6947.1881.2