Top Nine Most Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires, 2015 (1) |
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Rank |
Month |
State |
Type of facility |
Deaths |
1 |
March |
New York |
Three-story single-family home |
7 |
2 |
January |
Maryland |
Three-story single-family home |
6 |
3 |
January |
Ohio |
One-story single-family home |
5 |
4 |
October |
Kentucky |
Three-story single-family home and a two-unit home |
5 |
5 |
December |
California |
One-story single-family dwelling |
5 |
6 |
September |
California |
Wildland/urban interface |
4 |
7 |
November |
Ohio |
Small business jet aircraft and four-unit apartment building |
4 |
8 |
April |
California |
One-story tire shop |
3 |
9 |
August |
Washington |
Wildland/urban interface |
3 |
(1) Fires that kill five or more people in residential property, or three or more people in nonhome or nonstructural property. There were only nine castastrophic fires in 2015 that met this criteria.
Source: Based on data from Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires in 2015 by Stephen G. Badger, ©National Fire Protection Association. Used with permission. http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics. |
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