- Author
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Karter, M. J., Jr.
- Title
- U.S. Fire Experience by Region, 2002-2006.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
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NFPA No. USS03
April 2008
41 p.
- Keywords
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fire statistics
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death
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injuries
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costs
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NFRIS
- Identifiers
- fire incident rates; fire death rates; fire injury rates; property loss rates; National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)
- Abstract
- Number of fires per thousand populations for the 2002-2006 period indicate that the South (6.2) and Northcentral (6.0) had the highest overall rates for the five year period. The South with 15.0 and Northcentral with 14.3 had the highest annual average fire death rates per million people for the period. The Northcentral had an average civilian injury rate of 80.0 for the five year period or 31% higher than the national rate. The South had the highest civilian death rates for all community sizes under 100,000. The Northeast with 52% had a higher occurrence of cooking equipment fires than other regions, while the West with 31% had a high occurrence of fires involving heating equipment.