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Nonresidential Building Intentional Fire Trends (2013-2022)

National estimates

The 2022 national estimates for nonresidential building intentional fires and loss show that there were:

  • 18,900 fires.
  • $258,500,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends

Overall trends for nonresidential building intentional fires and loss for the 10-year period of 2013 to 2022 show the following:

  • A 140% increase in fires.
  • A 42% increase in dollar loss.*
    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.
*This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2022 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 (2013-2022)

2013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Fires9100880098009000109001020012000146001770018900

Nonresidential building intentional fire dollar loss (2013-2022)

YearDollar loss
2013239100000
2014239200000
2015229600000
2016251200000
2017267300000
2018189500000
2019203500000
2020606400000
2021225000000
2022258500000