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Residential Building Cooking Fire Trends (2011‑2020)

National estimates

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

192,600 cooking fires.
140 deaths.
3,175 injuries.
$465,400,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends

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

A 7% increase in fires
The increase in the trend of fires may be due to an NFIRS coding edit implemented in 2012.
A 13% decrease in deaths.
A 25% decrease in injuries.
A 16% 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, deaths, injuries and dollar loss

Residential building cooking fires

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	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Fires	166600	182000	188000	189800	193400	183300	191800	192700	178100	192600

Residential building cooking fire deaths

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	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Deaths	135	145	225	250	165	170	170	170	150	140

Residential building cooking fire injuries

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	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Injuries	3675	4425	4225	4125	3775	3475	3300	3100	3550	3175

Residential building cooking fire dollar loss

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Year	Dollar loss
2011	370500000
2012	626400000
2013	576300000
2014	597300000
2015	540300000
2016	462500000
2017	440100000
2018	465700000
2019	441200000
2020	465400000

Fire estimate summaries present basic data on the size and status of the fire problem in the U.S. as depicted through data reported to the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) National Fire Incident Reporting System from incidents reported by local response agencies. Each Fire Estimate Summary addresses the size of the specific fire or fire-related issue and highlights important trends in the data.

Fire estimate summaries are based on the USFA's “National Estimates Methodology for Building Fires and Losses.”. The USFA is committed to providing the best and most current information on the U.S. fire problem and continually examines data received from participating fire departments and the analytical methods used to fulfill this goal. Because of this commitment, data collection strategies and methodological changes are possible and do occur. Previous estimates on specific issues (or similar issues) may have used different methodologies or data definitions and, therefore, may not be directly comparable to current estimates.