I doubt that US has that much good fire safety standards when compared to - say - Europe. There is generically a far wider use in the US of combustible materia

I doubt that US has that much good fire safety standards when compared to - say - Europe. There is generically a far wider use in the US of combustible materials in buildings (compared to Europe) and this is probably only mildly balanced by the low density of housing (with the obvius exception of the relatively few big cities). If we use these data: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/fire_death_rates.html https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/fire_death_rates.h... They are better than before: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v12i8.pdf https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v12i8.pdf but not enough. Between 3000 and 4000 deaths per year (out of a population of around 330 millons) is 0,001 % or 1 every 100,000,which is still very, very high.