- Clothes Dryer Fires in Residential Buildings
- Clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths, and 400 injuries annually.
- Eighty percent of clothes dryer fires in structures occur in residential buildings.
- Annually, 12,700 clothes dryer fires occur in residential buildings resulting in 15 deaths and 300 injuries.
- “Failure to clean” is the leading factor contributing to clothes dryer fires in residential buildings.
- New home construction trends place clothes dryers and washing machines in more hazardous locations
away from outside walls such as bedrooms, second-floor hallways, bathrooms, and kitchens.
Time of Alarm Residential Building Clothes Dryer Fires 2002-2004
Source: NFIRS 5.0 data
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