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Nonresidential Building Cooking Fire Trends (2011‑2020)

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National estimates

The 2020 national estimates for nonresidential building cooking fires and loss show that there were:

  • 28,600 fires.
  • $50,900,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends

Overall trends for nonresidential building cooking fires and loss for the 10-year period of 2011 to 2020 show the following:

  • A 24% increase in fires.
    This increase may be due to an NFIRS coding edit implemented in 2012.
  • A 3% decrease in dollar loss.
    This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2020 value.

Fires and 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.

Nonresidential building cooking fires

2011201220132014201520162017201820192020
Fires24100272002740029000309002890033700317003320028600

Nonresidential building cooking fire dollar loss

YearDollar loss
201148600000
201248800000
201375500000
201458100000
201561700000
201663200000
201751000000
201853300000
201960400000
202050900000
2011201220132014201520162017201820192020
Dollar loss48.648.875.558.161.763.251.053.360.450.9