Property use |
Fires |
Property loss (2)
($ millions) |
Fires in California Wildland-Urban Interface |
|
$4,200 |
Structures |
490,500 |
12,107 |
Residential |
379,500 |
8,703 |
Home |
356,500 |
8,400 |
One- and two-family homes (3) |
270,500 |
6,771 |
Apartments and other multi-family |
86,000 |
1,629 |
Other residential structures (4) |
23,000 |
303 |
Non-residential (5) |
111,000 |
3,404 |
Vehicle fire |
209,500 |
5,170 |
Highway vehicle fire |
173,000 |
1,615 |
Other vehicle fire |
36,500 |
3,555 (6) |
Outside and other fire |
688,500 |
389 |
Fire outside but no vehicle (7) |
84,000 |
210 |
Fires in brush, grass, or wildlands (8) |
277,000 |
NA |
Outside rubbish fire |
225,000 |
NA |
All other fire |
102,500 |
179 |
Total |
1,388,500 |
$21,866 |
|
(1) Estimates based on data reported by fire departments responding to the 2020 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) Includes a $3 billion naval ship fire in California.
(7) Outside storage, crops, timber, etc.
(8) Excludes crops and timber, with no value or loss involved.
Source: Reproduced with permission from Fire Loss in the United States During 2020 by Marty Ahrens and Ben Evarts, ©2021 National Fire Protection Association www.nfpa.org.