Nonresidential Fire Estimate Summaries

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.