Restaurant Building Fires Cost $172 Million a Year: Report

An estimated 5,900 restaurant building fires occur annually in the United States, resulting in an estimated average of 75 injuries and $172 million in property loss.

The leading cause of all restaurant building fires is cooking at 59 percent and nearly 91 percent of these cooking fires are small, confined fires with limited damage.

These are some of the facts from an updated report on restaurant building fires from the U.S. Fire Administration’s National Fire Data Center. It is based on 2007 to 2009 data from the National Fire Incident Reporting System.

Other findings from the report:

The full report can be viewed at: http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/