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NFPA’s Latest Estimates of home heating-related fires

Homes include one and two-family homes, apartments and other multi-family housing. Estimates were derived from the

USFA’s National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and NFPA’s annual fire department experience survey. More

information on how these estimates were calculated is available here, www.nfpa.org/latestestimates 1/12

Home Heating Fires - 2010

Nationwide (estimates) show that the majority of home fires are caused by a fireplace or chimney (37%),

with a failure to clean as the leading cause (26%)

The majority of civilian deaths resulted from space heaters (79%)

were caused by a heater too close to combustibles (53%)

http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files//PDF/Latest%20estimates/LatestEstimatesHeating.pdf?utm_source=March+15%2C+2012&utm_campaign=Email+Newsletter+Analytics&utm_medium=email

more: http://www.nfpa.org/categoryList.asp?categoryID=291&URL=Safety%20Information/For%20consumers/Causes/Heating&order_src=CO72&lid=CO72