At a Glance
Risk by age:
Adults ages 55 or older had a greater relative risk of fire death than the general population.
Adults ages 85 or older had the highest relative risk of fire death.
had a greater relative risk of fire injury than the general population.
Children ages
had a relative risk of fire death that was 50% less than that of the general population, the lowest relative risk for this age group since the mid-1970s.
Risk by gender:
Risk by race:
Risk by region:
Risk by gender:
Risk by race:
Risk by gender:
Males were 1.7 times more likely to die in fires than females.
Risk by race:
African-Americans
And
American Indians / Alaska Natives
were at a greater relative risk of dying in a fire than the general population.
Risk by region:
Risk by region:
People living in the Midwest and South had the greatest relative risk of dying in a fire when compared to populations living in other regions of the United States.