| Top Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires, 2017 (1) |
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| Rank (2) |
Month |
State |
Type of facility |
Deaths |
| 1 |
October |
California |
Wildfires |
44 |
| 2 |
December |
New York |
5-story apartment building |
13 |
| 3 |
May |
Ohio |
Single-family home |
7 |
| 4 |
January |
Maryland |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 4 |
March |
Oregon |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 4 |
October |
Texas |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 4 |
November |
Illinois |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 8 |
March |
Massachusetts |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 8 |
March |
Michigan |
9-unit apartment building |
5 |
| 8 |
April |
South Dakota |
3-unit apartment building |
5 |
| 8 |
April |
Tennessee |
Manufactured single-family home |
5 |
| 8 |
April |
New York |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 8 |
October |
Ohio |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 8 |
September |
Alaska |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 8 |
December |
Iowa |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 8 |
May |
Wisconsin |
Corn milling plant |
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: Reproduced with permission, based on data from Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires in 2017 by Stephen G. Badger, © 2017, National Fire Protection Association https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-tools/US-Fire-Problem. |
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