National Estimates
The 2019 national estimates for residential building smoking fires and losses show that there were:
- 7,000 fires.
- 320 deaths.
- 750 injuries.
- $314,400,000 in dollar loss.
Overall Trends
Overall trends for residential building smoking fires and losses for the 10-year period of 2010 to 2019 show the following:
- A 10% decrease in fires.
- A 6% increase in deaths. In 2018, 7 reported multifatality fire incidents (including one resulting in 6 deaths) may have contributed to the increase in the estimate of fire deaths.
- A 30% decrease in injuries.
- An 11% decrease in dollar loss. (This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2019 value.)
Residential Building Smoking Fires
Estimate | Trend (-10%) | |
---|---|---|
2010 | 7600 | 8305 |
2011 | 7800 | |
2012 | 9600 | |
2013 | 8000 | |
2014 | 7600 | |
2015 | 8000 | |
2016 | 7700 | |
2017 | 7800 | |
2018 | 7700 | |
2019 | 7000 | 7455 |
Residential Building Smoking Fire Deaths
Estimate | Trend (+6%) | |
---|---|---|
2010 | 350 | 324 |
2011 | 305 | |
2012 | 330 | |
2013 | 320 | |
2014 | 325 | |
2015 | 320 | |
2016 | 375 | |
2017 | 300 | |
2018 | 390 | |
2019 | 320 | 343 |
Residential Building Smoking Fire Injuries
Estimate | Trend (-30%) | |
---|---|---|
2010 | 950 | 940 |
2011 | 1050 | |
2012 | 800 | |
2013 | 850 | |
2014 | 775 | |
2015 | 675 | |
2016 | 750 | |
2017 | 700 | |
2018 | 700 | |
2019 | 750 | 660 |
Residential Building Smoking Fire Dollar Loss
Adjusted to 2019 Dollars
Estimate | Trend (-11%) | |
---|---|---|
2010 | 335500000 | 332872727 |
2011 | 337000000 | |
2012 | 387600000 | |
2013 | 313400000 | |
2014 | 248300000 | |
2015 | 275900000 | |
2016 | 297700000 | |
2017 | 316000000 | |
2018 | 324700000 | |
2019 | 314400000 | 297227273 |