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Residential Building Heating Fire Trends (2015-2024)

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National estimates

The 2024 national estimates for residential building heating fires and losses show that there were:

  • 27,200 fires.
  • 145 deaths.
  • 475 injuries.
  • $445,900,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends

Overall trends for residential building heating fires and losses for the 10-year period of 2015 to 2024 show the following:

  • 26% decrease in fires.
  • 27% decrease in deaths.
  • 3% decrease in injuries.
  • 8% increase in dollar loss.*
* 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, deaths, injuries and dollar loss

Residential building heating fires (2015-2024)

Residential building heating fires (2015-2024)
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Fires 41200 35100 33800 35700 33100 33000 32200 34800 27900 27200

Residential building heating fire deaths (2015-2024)

Residential building heating fire deaths (2015-2024)
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Deaths 165 165 195 155 145 125 190 110 115 145

Residential building heating fire injuries (2015-2024)

Residential building heating fire injuries (2015-2024)
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Injuries 575 500 575 575 675 575 625 650 525 475

Residential building heating fire dollar loss (2015-2024)

Residential building heating fire dollar loss (2015-2024)
Year Dollar loss
2015 519300000
2016 452100000
2017 409100000
2018 512600000
2019 430800000
2020 458900000
2021 511700000
2022 605200000
2023 502400000
2024 445900000