| Top Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires and Explosions, 2022 (1) |
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| Rank (2) |
Month |
State |
Type of facility |
Deaths |
| 1 |
January |
New York |
120-unit apartment building |
17 |
| 2 |
January |
Pennsylvania |
2-unit rowhouse |
12 |
| 3 |
August |
Pennsylvania |
Single-family home |
10 |
| 4 |
July |
Arkansas |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 4 |
December |
New York |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 4 |
December |
Ohio |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 4 |
December |
Tennessee |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 5 |
February |
Pennsylvania |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 5 |
February |
Texas |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 5 |
March |
Illinois |
Single-family farmhouse |
5 |
| 5 |
April |
Pennsylvania |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 5 |
May |
Pennsylvania |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 5 |
June |
Michigan |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 5 |
September |
Pennsylvania |
Single-family farmhouse |
5 |
| 6 |
July |
California |
Wildland |
4 |
| 6 |
July |
New Mexico |
Wildland |
4 |
| 6 |
December |
Florida |
Warehouse |
4 |
(1) Fires or explosions that kill five or more people in residential property, or three or more people in nonhome or nonstructural property.
(2) Fires with the same number of deaths receive the same rank.
Source: National Fire Protection Association. www.nfpa.org. |
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