- Author
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Hall, J. R., Jr.
- Title
- U. S. Unintentional Fire Death Rates by State.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
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NFPA USS 15
September 2007
26 p.
- Keywords
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death
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fire statistics
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fire fatalities
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risks
- Identifiers
- patterns and trends of fire deaths by state; summaries of individual states
- Abstract
- The long-term trend in fire death rates per million population has been substantially downward for nearly every state since 1980. In the five most recent years analyzed (1999-2003), Mississippi had the highest fire death rate, and states of the southeast accounted for 11 of the 13 highest rates, with Rhode Island and Oklahoma as exceptions. When these five-year average rates are compared to state differences, several factors show notable correlations, including education (37% of statistical variation explained, race (35%), smoking (31%), poverty (24%) and rural (18%).