Fire departments in the United States responded to nearly 1.6
million fire calls in 2007. The United States fire problem, on a
per capita basis, is one of the worst in the industrial world.
Thousands of Americans die each year, tens of thousands of people
are injured, and property losses reach billions of dollars. There
are huge indirect costs of fire as well-temporary lodging, lost
business, medical expenses, psychological damage, and others. These
indirect costs may be as much as 8- to 10-times higher than the
direct costs of fire. To put this in context, the annual losses
from floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural
disasters combined in the United States average just a fraction of
those from fires. The public, the media, and local governments
generally are unaware of the magnitude and seriousness of the fire
problem to individuals and their families, to communities, and to
the Nation. The National Fire Data Center (NFDC) of the U.S. Fire
Administration (USFA) periodically publishes Fire in the United
States, a statistical overview of the fires in the United States
with the focus on the latest year in which data were available at
the time of preparation. This report is designed to equip the fire
service and others with information that motivates corrective
action, sets priorities, targets specific fire programs, serves as
a model for State and local analyses of fire data, and provides a
baseline for evaluating programs. This Fifteenth Edition covers the
5-year period of 2003 to 2007 with a primary focus on 2007. Only
native National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) 5.0 data are
used for NFIRS-based analyses. In 2007, the native NFIRS 5.0 data
account for 98 percent of the fire incident data. The report
addresses the overall national fire problem.
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