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loss fires and explosions that occurred in the United States
the year before. Those fires are defined as events that result
in property damage of at least $10 million. There were 25
such fires in 2016, resulting in a total of over $1.4 billion in
direct property losses. In order to compare losses over the
past 10 years, we adjust losses for inflation to 2007 dollars.
When adjusted for inflation, the number of fires in 2016 that
would have been categorized as large-loss fires-that is, fires
resulting in a loss of $10 million in 2007 dollars-drops to 18,
with an adjusted loss of slightly more than $1.2 billion.
In 2016, six fires-four fewer than the previous year-
resulted in more than $20 million each in property damage.
These fires resulted in a combined property loss of $1.2 billion, or 83.2 percent of the total loss in large-loss fires and
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11.4 percent of the total fire losses in the United States in 2016.
According to "Fire Loss in the United States During 2016,"
published in the September/October issue of NFPA Journal,
U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 1,342,000
structure and nonstructure fires, which resulted in an estimated loss of $10.6 billion. Many of these fires were small or
resulted in little or no reported property damage. Although
the 25 large-loss fires accounted for only 0.002 percent of
the estimated number of fires in 2016, they accounted for
9.9 percent of the total estimated dollar loss. In addition,
those 25 fires accounted for 14 civilian deaths, with another
183 civilians and eight firefighters injured. Last year was the
eighth year out of the past 10 that a wildland/urban interface (WUI) fire topped the list of the year's biggest large-loss
fires. In three of those years, 2011, 2015, and 2016, wildfires
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