- Author
- Karter, M. J., Jr.
- Title
- Fire Loss in the United States 2007.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
- NFPA No. FLX07, August 2008, 40 p.
- Keywords
- fire losses | fire statistics | fire fatalities | injuries | arson | fire departments | death | home fires | false alarms
- Identifiers
- intentional fires; region fire department calls
- Abstract
- U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 1,557,500 fires. These fires resulted in 3,430 civilian fire fatalities, 17,675 civilian fire injuries and an estimated $14,639,000,000 in direct property loss. There was a civilian fire death every 153 minutes and a civilian fire injury every 30 minutes in 2007. Home fires caused 2,865, or 84%, of the civilian fire deaths. Fires accounted for six percent of the 25,334,500 total calls. Nine percent of the calls were false alarms; sixty-two percent of the calls were for aid such as EMS.