| Top Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires, 2018 (1) |
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| Rank (2) |
Month |
State |
Type of facility |
Deaths |
| 1 |
November |
California |
Wildland Urban Interface fire |
85 |
| 2 |
August |
Illinois |
Two-family home |
10 |
| 3 |
July |
California |
Wildland Urban Interface fire |
8 |
| 4 |
April |
Tennessee |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 5 |
July |
Michigan |
Motel |
6 |
| 6 |
November |
Indiana |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 7 |
January |
Oklahoma |
Gas well |
5 |
| 7 |
January |
Kansas |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 7 |
February |
Arizona |
Helicopter crash/fire |
5 |
| 7 |
March |
Tennessee |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 7 |
April |
New York |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 7 |
May |
North Carolina |
Apartment building |
5 |
| 7 |
June |
Missouri |
Single-family, manufactured |
5 |
| 7 |
June |
Washington |
Vacation cabin |
5 |
| 7 |
July |
New Jersey |
Apartment building |
5 |
| 7 |
July |
Texas |
Apartment building |
5 |
| 7 |
December |
Ohio |
Single-family home |
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 from Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires in 2018 by Stephen G. Badger, ©2019 National Fire Protection Association. www.nfpa.org. |
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