Fire Risk in 2015

Topical Fire Report Series - U.S. Fire Administration

Our latest topical fire report focuses on how fire risk, specifically the risks of death and injury, varies with age, and how other demographic and socioeconomic factors weigh upon that risk. 

In 2015: 

• Adults ages 85 and older had the highest risk of fire death.
• Males were 1.7 times more likely to die in fires than females.
• African-Americans and American Indians/Alaska Natives were at a greater relative risk of dying in a fire than the general population.
• The relative risk of dying in a fire for people living in the South was higher than for other regions.