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FIRE LOSS 2018
addressed. As indicated above, there has been significant success in reducing the number of reported home fires, but once
a serious fire starts, deaths are almost as likely to occur in a
home fire as they were 40 years ago.
In the highway vehicle fires category, the number of civilian
deaths rose from an estimated 400 in 2017 to an estimated 490
in 2018. These numbers exclude deaths due to trauma if the
fire was not a factor in the death. Between 1980 and 2009, the
number of highway vehicle deaths decreased by 60 percent.
Since a low of an estimated 260 deaths in 2009, the number of
deaths has fluctuated, getting as high 490 in 2018.
Civilian fire injuries
In addition to the 3,655 civilians who died in fires in 2018,
there were an estimated 15,200 civilian fire injuries. This is
an increase of 4 percent over 2017. Since civilian fire injuries
are not always reported to the fire service, estimates of civilian fire injuries may be lower than actual levels. For example,
many injuries occur at small fires to which fire departments
do not respond, and even when fire departments do respond,
Firefighters attack a house fire in Maine.
In 2018, 2,720 civilian fatalities, or 74 percent
of all fire deaths, occurred in home fires.
Those fires also resulted in 12,700 civilian
injuries, or 84 percent of all fire injuries.
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they may be unaware of injured persons they did not transport to medical facilities themselves.
Of the 15,200 civilians injured in 2018, we estimate
that 12,700 civilians were injured in structure fires, and
of those, that 11,200 were injured in home structure fires,
an increase of 6 percent over the previous year. Of these
injuries, 7,800 occurred in one- and two-family homes and
manufactured homes, and 3,400 occurred in apartments.
An additional 1,100 civilians were injured in nonresidential
structure fires in 2018, a decrease of 12 percent from the
year before. Additionally, 1,300 civilians were injured in
highway vehicle fires, a 5 percent decrease from 2017. Fires
in other vehicles (including airplanes, trains, ships, construction vehicles, and farm vehicles) caused 200 civilian
injuries in 2018.
Between 1977 and 2018, the number of civilian injuries
ranged from a peak of 31,325 in 1979 to a low of 14,660 in
2016, a decrease of 53.2 percent. Since 1997, civilian injuries
have remained below 35,000 per year, below 19,000 since
2002, and below 16,000 since 2013.
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