Report Date:

All Reported Fireworks Fires

Page 1 of 1

Reported to the Office of the State Fire Marshal
1/1/2013

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7/3/2018

12/31/2017

Fireworks Reported as the Heat Source of the Ignition
Year

Fireworks
Fires

Property
Loss

Content
Loss

Fire Service
Injuries

Fire Service
Fatalities

Civilian
Injuries

Civilian
Fatalites

Acres
Burned

2013

555

$1,546,883

$470,772

1

0

3

0

305

2014

510

$1,573,826

$392,999

1

0

5

0

8,657

2015

548

$5,928,930

$1,168,529

0

0

22

0

410

2016

643

$1,555,670

$669,433

3

0

0

0

420

2017

869

$3,317,912

$1,039,761

7

0

2

0

562

3,125

$13,923,221

$3,741,494

12

0

32

0

10,354

Total:

Incidents when mutual or automatic aid was given to a neighboring fire department are not included in counts. Structure Fires with Fireworks reported as the Heat Source of the Ignition = All reported
incidents that include the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Incident Type code 111; Building Fire and NFIRS Heat Source Code 50; Explosives, Fireworks, other and 54; Fireworks, includes
sparklers, paper caps, party poppers, and firecrackers. Wildland Fires with Fireworks reported as the Heat Source of the Ignition = All reported incidents that include the National Fire Incident Reporting
System (NFIRS) Incident Type codes 140-143; Natural Vegetation Fires, 170-173; Cultivated Vegetation Crop Fires, and 561; Unauthorized Burning and and NFIRS Heat Source Code 50; Explosives,
Fireworks, other and 54; Fireworks, includes sparklers, paper caps, party poppers, and firecrackers. The statistics come from the Office of the State Fire Marshal ’s (OSFM) California All Incident Reporting
System (CAIRS) data warehouse. Property and contents loss figures, if included herein, are estimates only. These emergency incident statistics, including injury and death counts, are based only upon
information submitted to the OSFM by participating California fire departments. Please note that apparent variations in incident counts and associated losses shown in this report may be solely due to
fluctuations in the amount of data submitted to the OSFM. And while the incoming data is validated according to logical data rules, individual data elements are not always verified for accuracy.