Fire Statistics

• A fire occurs in a structure at the rate of one every 66 seconds, and in particular every 23 seconds, a fire department responds to a fire somewhere in the nation a residential fire occurs every 84 seconds.
• 3,010 civilian fire deaths occurred in 2009, an increase of 9.3%.
• About 85% of all fire deaths occurred in the home.
• 2,565 civilian fire deaths occurred in the home, a decrease of 6.9%.
• Nationwide, there was a civilian fire death every 175 minutes.
• 17,050 civilian fire injuries occurred in 2009, a slight increase of 2.1%, this estimate for civilian injuries is on the low side, because many civilian injuries are not reported to the fire service.
• 13,050 of all civilian injuries occurred in residential properties, while 1,690 occurred in nonresidential structure fires.
• Nationwide, there was a civilian fire injury every 31 minutes.

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