- Author
- Ahrens, M.
- Title
- Trends and Patterns of U.S. Fire Losses.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
- NFPA USS47, September 2007, 12 p.
- Keywords
- fire losses | fire statistics | death | fire departments | NFIRS | injuries | damage | home fires
- Identifiers
- population-based rates; U. S. incident trends; major property class; property damage
- Abstract
- Projections from NFPA's annual fire department experience data reported in Michael Karter's annual reports on U.S. Fire Loss, particularly U.S. Fire Loss During 2006, are summarized in this analysis. Reported fires and fire deaths have fallen since 1977, the first year of available data. The drop in population-based rates is even sharper. In 2006, home structure fires accounted for 24% of the reported fires. However, these incidents caused 80% of all civilian fire deaths. Vehicle fires accounted for 17% of the reported fires and 15% of the civilian fire deaths. Roughly half of the reported fires were outside or other non-structure, non-vehicle fires.