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National estimates
The 2021 national estimates for nonresidential building cooking fires and loss show that there were:
- 31,100 fires.
- $72,100,000 in dollar loss.
Overall trends
Overall trends for nonresidential building cooking fires and loss for the 10-year period of 2012 to 2021 show the following:
- A 14% increase in fires.
- A 2% decrease in dollar loss.
This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year’s dollar loss to its equivalent 2021 value.
Fires and dollar loss
Deaths and injuries by individual causes are not shown, as small numbers of nonresidential building casualties are reported to the NFIRS, and many of the fires that caused these casualties have insufficient information to determine fire cause.
Nonresidential building cooking fires
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fires | 27200 | 27400 | 29000 | 30900 | 28900 | 33700 | 31700 | 33200 | 28600 | 31100 |
Nonresidential building cooking fire dollar loss
Year | Dollar loss |
---|---|
2012 | 51100000 |
2013 | 79000000 |
2014 | 60800000 |
2015 | 64600000 |
2016 | 66200000 |
2017 | 53400000 |
2018 | 55800000 |
2019 | 63200000 |
2020 | 53300000 |
2021 | 72100000 |
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dollar loss | 51.1 | 79.0 | 60.8 | 64.6 | 66.2 | 53.4 | 55.8 | 63.2 | 53.3 | 72.1 |