The total cost of fire in the United States
Zhuang, J; Payyappalli, VM; Behrendt, A; Lukasiewicz, K
HERO ID
7310233
Reference Type
Technical Report
Year
2017
Language
English
| HERO ID | 7310233 |
|---|---|
| Year | 2017 |
| Title | The total cost of fire in the United States |
| Authors | Zhuang, J; Payyappalli, VM; Behrendt, A; Lukasiewicz, K |
| Publisher Text | National Fire Protection Association |
| City | Quincy, MA |
| Abstract | This report presents the total cost of fire in the United States for the years 1980 to 2014. The cost of fire for the years 2015 and later are not calculated as most of the data sources used are available only until 2014. The total cost of fire is defined as the collective of all net expenditure on fire protection and all net losses due to fire incidents. For 2014, the total is $328.5 billion, which was 1.9% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The expenditures constitute $273.1 billion (83.1% of total) and the losses constitute $55.4 billion (16.9% of total). The fire safety costs in building construction is the largest component at $57.4 billion (17.5% of total). This report provides updated prevention, protection, and mitigation costs. This has been achieved through (a) creating a taxonomy for mutually exclusive expenditures and losses based on findings from extensive literature review to ensure a complete accounting of the cost of fire, and (b) using analytical methodologies from literature review of fire and other hazard impacts to account for each defined facet of cost and loss. These methods will guide the calculation of the total cost of fire in being complete, precise, and standardized for future application by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) community. Future research directions, including regression analysis to find relationships between quantifiable factors of costs and losses, are also provided. |
| Report Number | FPRF-2017-21 |
| Url | https://www.nfpa.org//-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-reports/US-Fire-Problem/RFTotalCost.pdf |
| Is Certified Translation | No |
| Dupe Override | No |
| Number Of Pages | 55 |
| Is Public | Yes |
| Language Text | English |