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Residential Building Smoking Fire Trends (2012‑2021)

National estimates

The 2021 national estimates for residential building smoking fires and losses show that there were:

7,800 fires.
275 deaths.
750 injuries.
$361,500,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends

Overall trends for residential building smoking fires and losses for the 10-year period of 2012 to 2021 show the following:

A 13% decrease in fires.
A 5% decrease in deaths.
A 10% decrease in injuries.
An 8% 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.

Fires, deaths, injuries and dollar loss

Residential building smoking fires

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	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Fires	9600	8000	7600	8000	7700	7800	7700	7000	7900	7800

Residential building smoking fire deaths

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	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Deaths	330	320	325	320	375	300	390	320	330	275

Residential building smoking fire injuries

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	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Injuries	800	850	775	675	750	700	700	750	725	750

Residential building smoking fire dollar loss

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Year	Dollar loss
2012	410800000
2013	332100000
2014	263200000
2015	292400000
2016	315600000
2017	335000000
2018	344200000
2019	333200000
2020	386300000
2021	361500000

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 PDF. 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.