Nonresidential Building Cooking Fire Trends (2015-2024)
National estimates
The 2024 national estimates for nonresidential building cooking fires and loss show that there were:
- 33,200 fires.
- $41,000,000 in dollar loss.*
Overall trends
Overall trends for nonresidential building cooking fires and loss for the 10-year period of 2015 to 2024 show the following:
- 10% increase in fires.
- 19% increase in 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.
- ** 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 cooking fires (2015-2024)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fires | 30900 | 28900 | 33700 | 31700 | 33200 | 28600 | 31100 | 35800 | 33300 | 33200 |
Nonresidential building cooking fire dollar loss (2015-2024)
| Year | Dollar loss |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 74800000 |
| 2016 | 76600000 |
| 2017 | 61800000 |
| 2018 | 64600000 |
| 2019 | 73200000 |
| 2020 | 61700000 |
| 2021 | 83400000 |
| 2022 | 95400000 |
| 2023 | 51800000 |
| 2024 | 41000000 |