| Top 10 Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires, 2016 (1) |
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| Rank (2) |
Month |
State |
Type of facility |
Deaths |
| 1 |
December |
California |
Ghost Ship warehouse |
36 |
| 2 |
July |
Texas |
Hot-air balloon crash/fire |
16 |
| 3 |
November |
Tennessee |
Wildfire |
14 |
| 4 |
August |
Tennessee |
Single-family home |
10 |
| 5 |
August |
Maryland |
13-unit apartment building, explosion/fire |
7 |
| 6 |
March |
Georgia |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 6 |
May |
New York |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 6 |
October |
Nebraska |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 6 |
October |
Georgia |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 10 |
January |
Alabama |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 10 |
January |
Illinois |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 10 |
January |
Virginia |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 10 |
January |
Michigan |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 10 |
April |
Pennsylvania |
Two-family duplex home |
5 |
| 10 |
June |
California |
Vacant office buildings |
5 |
(1) Fires 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: Based on data from Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires in 2016 by Stephen G. Badger, 漏National Fire Protection Association. Used with permission. www.nfpa.org. |
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