Home Fire Deaths & Injuries

Homes include one- or two-family homes and apartments or other multi-family housing.

• During 2011-2015, an estimated average of 2,510 people died and 12,300 more were non-fatally injured per year in reported home1 fires. These fires caused 80% of all fire deaths and 78% of all reported fire injuries in this five-year period.
  
• Although people 85 and over had the highest rate of fire death and injuries per million population, they only account for 2% of the population. Consequently, the actual number of victims that age is smaller than victims in most lower-risk age groups.
• Children under 15 accounted for 12% of the home fire fatalities and 10% of the injuries. Children under five account for 6% of the deaths and 4% of the injuries. Children below the age of 5 are now at lower risk of fire death than people over 45.
• While smoking materials were the leading cause of home fire deaths overall, this was true only for people in the 45-84 age groups.
• Heating was the leading cause of fire deaths in the under 5 and the 5-9 age groups.
• Males were more likely to be killed or injured in home fires than females and accounted for larger percentages of the victims. (57% of the deaths and 54% of the injuries).
  

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-tools/Building-and-Life-Safety/Home-fire-victims-by-age-and-gender

Please research this subject extensively. Stats are subject to change on a daily basis. Remember, it is not the odds, but the stakes.