- Author
- Ahrens, M.
- Title
- Patterns and Trends of U.S. Fire Losses.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
- NFPA No. 47, August 2008, 13 p.
- Keywords
- fire losses | fire statistics | death | fire departments | home fires | structures | injuries
- Identifiers
- U.S. incident trends; reported fire incidents by major property class: 2007; direct 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 the most recent report, 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 2007, home structure fires accounted for 26% of the reported fires. However, these incidents caused 84% of all civilian fire deaths. Vehicle fires accounted for 17% of the reported fires and 11% of the civilian fire deaths. Roughly half of the reported fires were outside or other non-structure, non-vehicle fires.