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Nonresidential Building Intentional Fire Trends (2011‑2020)

National estimates

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

  • 14,600 fires.
  • $536,300,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends

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

  • A 52% increase in fires.
    A $26,465,000 San Francisco, California, building supply warehouse fire with several exposures and a $17,000,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fire reported in a mercantile or business property contributed to the increase in fire dollar loss in 2020.
  • A 54% 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 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 intentional fires

2011201220132014201520162017201820192020
Fires89009700910088009800900010900102001200014600

Nonresidential building intentional fire dollar loss

YearDollar loss
2011212500000
2012303200000
2013211400000
2014211500000
2015203100000
2016222200000
2017236400000
2018167600000
2019180000000
2020536300000