| Reported Fires By Property Use, 2023 (1) |
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| Property use |
Fires |
Property loss (2) ($ millions) |
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470,000 |
$14,688 |
| Residential |
352,000 |
11,398 |
| Home |
332,000 |
11,021 |
| One- and two-family homes (3) |
255,500 |
8,675 |
| Apartments and other multi-family |
76,500 |
2,346 |
| Other residential structures (4) |
20,000 |
377 |
| Non-residential (5) |
118,000 |
3,290 |
| Vehicle fire |
210,500 |
2,599 |
| Highway vehicle fire |
180,000 |
1,961 |
| Other vehicle fire |
30,500 |
638 |
| Outside and other fire |
708,500 |
5,933 (9) |
| Fire outside but no vehicle (6) |
84,500 |
214 |
| Fires in brush, grass, or wildlands (7) |
287,000 |
(8) |
| Outside rubbish fire |
248,500 |
(8) |
| All other fire |
88,500 |
219 |
| Total |
1,389,000 |
$23,219 (9) |
(1) Estimates based on data reported by fire departments responding to the 2023 National Fire Experience Survey. May exclude reports from some fire departments.
(2) Includes overall direct property loss to contents, structures, vehicles, machinery, vegetation or any other property involved in a fire. Excludes indirect losses, such as business interruption or temporary shelter costs.
(3) Includes manufactured homes.
(4) Includes hotels and motels, dormitories, rooming houses, residential board and care properties, and other residential properties.
(5) Public assembly, educational, institutional, retail, office, manufacturing, and industrial or utility properties.
(6) Outside storage, crops, timber, etc.
(7) Excludes crops and timber, with no value or loss involved.
(8) Property damage is not captured for brush, grass, or wildland fires with no loss or outside rubbish fires.
(9) Includes $5.5 billion property loss estimate from the wildfires predominantly on the island of Maui in Hawaii in August of 2023.
Source: Reproduced with permission from Fire Loss in the United States During 2023 by Shelby Hall and Ben Evarts, ©2024 National Fire Protection Association www.nfpa.org. |
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