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The UK has ~82 house fires per day, for 27 million dwellings. It’s not clear if these map 1-1 with buildings (I.e building a split into apartments). The USA ha
by orf 5y ago
The UK has ~82 house fires per day, for 27 million dwellings. It’s not clear if these map 1-1 with buildings (I.e building a split into apartments).
The USA has 928 fires per day for 139 million houses.
So if hastily googled statistics are to be believed, you’re over twice as likely to have a house fire in the USA.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/823920/fire-and-rescue-incident-mar19-hosb1419.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
- Manuel_D 5y agoThe USA also has a much more diverse set of climates than England - nit, your source is studying fires in England specifically, not the whole of the United Kingdom. I'm also curious where your figure for the USA Comparing rates of fires in hotter, more arid climates like Texas or California with England seems like a pretty big leap. I'm also curious where your figure of 928 fires per day in the US comes from, maybe I overlooked it but I didn't see the USA statistics in your link. FEMA puts the figure at 1.3 million per year, or over 3,500 [1] per day. It's likely that there's a significant difference between the definition of a "fire" between the US and UK sources. 1. https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/ https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/