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Nonresidential Fire Estimate Summaries

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Nonresidential building fire trends (2011-2020)

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

  • 103,400 fires.
  • 95 deaths.
  • 1,025 injuries.
  • $3,289,600,000 in dollar loss.

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

  • A 22% increase in fires.
  • A 53% 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 52% increase in nonresidential building fire deaths.
  • A 19% decrease in injuries.
  • An 11% increase 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, deaths, injuries and dollar loss

Nonresidential building fires

2011201220132014201520162017201820192020
Fires8540092800937009950010460096800111000103600110900103400

Nonresidential building fire deaths

2011201220132014201520162017201820192020
Deaths8065656070145958510095

Nonresidential building fire injuries

2011201220132014201520162017201820192020
Injuries1100145014251200132515501200102511251025

Nonresidential building fire dollar loss

YearDollar loss
20112,802,500,000
20122,785,400,000
20132,734,600,000
20142,816,200,000
20152,938,500,000
20163,070,900,000
20172,871,200,000
20182,738,100,000
20192,905,200,000
20203,289,600,000
2011201220132014201520162017201820192020
Dollar loss2.82.82.72.82.93.12.92.72.93.3