Residential Building Cause-Under-Investigation Fire Trends (2014-2023)

National estimates

The 2023 national estimates for residential building cause-under-investigation fires and losses show that there were:

• 4,400 fires.
• 560 deaths.
• 525 injuries.
• $622,300,000 in dollar loss.

Overall trends

Overall trends for residential building cause-under-investigation fires and losses for the 10-year period of 2014 to 2023 show the following:

• A 1% decrease in fires.
• A 78% increase in deaths.
  In 2019, there were 10 reported multifatality fire incidents, 18 in 2020, 11 in 2021, 19 in 2022 and 11 in 2023. These multifatality fire incidents may have contributed to the increase in the estimates of fire deaths.
• A 35% increase in injuries.
  In 2020, 36 reported multiple injury fire incidents may have contributed to the increase in the estimate of fire injuries.
• A 42% increase in dollar loss.^*
  The 2022 high-dollar-loss fires included a reported $55,000,000 apartment building fire in Salt Lake City, Utah.

* This overall constant dollar-loss trend takes inflation into account by adjusting each year's dollar loss to its equivalent 2023 value.

Fires, deaths, injuries and dollar loss

• Fires
• Deaths
• Injuries
• $ Loss