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Residential Building Cooking Fire Trends (2014-2023)

National estimates

The 2023 national estimates for residential building cooking fires and losses show that there were:

  • 167,800 fires.
  • 125 deaths.
  • 2,500 injuries.
  • $572,700,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends

Overall trends for residential building cooking fires and losses for the 10-year period of 2014 to 2023 show the following:

  • An 11% decrease in fires.
  • A 49% decrease in deaths.
  • A 37% decrease in injuries.
  • A 15% decrease in dollar loss*.
*This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2023 value.

Fires, deaths, injuries and dollar loss (2014-2023)

Residential building cooking fires (2014-2023)

2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Fires189800193400183300191800192700178100192600170000178600167800

Residential building cooking fire deaths (2014-2023)

2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Deaths250165170170170150140135100125

Residential building cooking fire injuries (2014-2023)

2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Injuries4125377534753300310035503175300023502500

Residential building cooking fire dollar loss (2014-2023)

YearDollar loss
2014703200000
2015636100000
2016544500000
2017518200000
2018548300000
2019519500000
2020548000000
2021555700000
2022544000000
2023572700000
2014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Dollar loss703.2636.1544.5518.2548.3519.5548.0555.7544.0572.7