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Nonresidential Fire Estimate Summaries

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Nonresidential building fire trends (2012‑2021)

The 2021 national estimates for nonresidential building fires and losses show that there were:

  • 116,500 fires.
  • 115 deaths.
  • 1,025 injuries.
  • $3,697,200,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends for nonresidential building fires and losses for the 10-year period of 2012 to 2021 show the following:

  • A 20% increase in fires.
  • A 70% increase in deaths.
    In 2016, in Oakland, California, a fire at a former warehouse that had been converted to mixed-use properties with an assembly area contributed to the peak in fire deaths; 35 fire deaths were reported to the NFIRS as a result of this incident. Excluding these 35 deaths from the 10-year trend analysis results in an overall 79% increase in nonresidential building fire deaths. In 2021, 5 reported multifatality fire incidents may have contributed to the increase in the estimate of fire deaths.
  • A 31% decrease in injuries.
  • An 21% increase in dollar loss.
    This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2021 value.

Fires, deaths, injuries and dollar loss

Nonresidential building fires

2012201320142015201620172018201920202021
Fires92800937009950010460096800111000103600110900103400116500

Nonresidential building fire deaths

2012201320142015201620172018201920202021
Deaths65656070145958510095115

Nonresidential building fire injuries

2012201320142015201620172018201920202021
Injuries1450142512001325155012001025112510251025

Nonresidential building fire dollar loss

YearDollar loss
20122,916,300,000
20132,863,100,000
20142,948,500,000
20153,076,600,000
20163,215,100,000
20173,006,100,000
20182,866,700,000
20193,041,700,000
20203,444,200,000
20213,697,200,000
2012201320142015201620172018201920202021
Dollar loss2.92.92.93.13.23.02.93.03.43.7