4 ms·
> I mean, there's still more people who die in fires in the US than in the EU False - and it's not even close. Europe has almost a full order of magnitude mor
by happyopossum 4y ago
> I mean, there's still more people who die in fires in the US than in the EU
False - and it's not even close. Europe has almost a full order of magnitude more death from residential fires than the US - house fires caused 2,620 deaths over 5 years in the US [0] vs ~5000/yr in Europe [1].
[0] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/house-fire-statistics/ https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/house-fire-stati...
[1] https://www.europeanfiresafetyalliance.org/our-focus/statistics/ https://www.europeanfiresafetyalliance.org/our-focus/statist...
- comte7092 4y ago>house fires caused 2,620 deaths over 5 years in the US Your source says that was 2,620 per year further down in the article: >House fires cause an average of 2,620 civilian deaths each year. Given that the EU has a significantly higher population than the US (~500 million, the EU data may or may not have included the UK, vs ~330 million) the per capita statistics end up fairly close.