Nonresidential Building Other Unintentional, Careless Fire Trends (2015-2024)
National estimates
The 2024 national estimates for nonresidential building other unintentional, careless fires and loss show that there were:
- 14,900 fires.
- $564,800,000 in dollar loss.*
Overall trends
Overall trends for nonresidential building other unintentional, careless fires and loss for the 10-year period of 2015 to 2024 show the following:
- 43% increase in fires.
-
19% increase in dollar loss.**
- A $38,000,000 Illinois warehouse fire and an $81,000,000 Wisconsin manufacturing fire contributed to the 2022 and 2023 dollar-loss peaks, respectively.
- * 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.
- ** The overall dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2024 value. In addition, estimated trends in time-series data may be skewed by high-impact outlier events that inflate cumulative variance, and the magnitude of these trends may appear artificially amplified or minimized due to variations in the scaling of the graphics.
Fires and dollar loss
Nonresidential building other unintentional, careless fires (2015-2024)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fires | 10900 | 10700 | 12300 | 11900 | 12800 | 12200 | 14100 | 16500 | 13800 | 14900 |
Nonresidential building other unintentional, careless fire dollar loss (2015-2024)
| Year | Dollar loss |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 702700000 |
| 2016 | 705200000 |
| 2017 | 600800000 |
| 2018 | 632000000 |
| 2019 | 531300000 |
| 2020 | 653500000 |
| 2021 | 627600000 |
| 2022 | 975000000 |
| 2023 | 907200000 |
| 2024 | 564800000 |