Nonresidential Building Intentional Fire Trends (2015-2024)
National estimates
The 2024 national estimates for nonresidential building intentional fires and loss show that there were:
- 13,000 fires.
- $240,300,000 in dollar loss.*
Overall trends
Overall trends for nonresidential building intentional fires and loss for the 10-year period of 2015 to 2024 show the following:
- 75% increase in fires.
-
22% increase in dollar loss.**
- A $26,465,000 California building supply warehouse fire with several exposures and a $17,000,000 Pennsylvania mercantile or business property fire contributed to the increase in nonresidential intentional fire dollar loss in 2020.
- * 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.
- ** This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2024 value.
Fires and dollar loss
Nonresidential building intentional fires (2015-2024)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fires | 9800 | 9000 | 10900 | 10200 | 12000 | 14600 | 17700 | 18900 | 14300 | 13000 |
Nonresidential building intentional fire dollar loss (2015-2024)
| Year | Dollar loss |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 246100000 |
| 2016 | 269300000 |
| 2017 | 286500000 |
| 2018 | 203100000 |
| 2019 | 218200000 |
| 2020 | 650000000 |
| 2021 | 241200000 |
| 2022 | 277000000 |
| 2023 | 359400000 |
| 2024 | 240300000 |