Read about the large-loss fires of 2014 in the new issue of NFPA Journal

NFPA defines a large-loss fire as one that results in at least $10 million in damage. In 2014, there were 25 large-loss fires, which did almost $654.3 million in direct property losses, writes Steve Badger, fire data assistant in NFPA’s Fire Analysis and Research Division, in the November/December issue of NFPA Journal. This represented a 19 percent increase from in the number of large-loss fires from the year before, but a decrease of $190.5 million, or 22.6 percent, in associated property losses. While these fires accounted for just 0.002 percent of the estimated number of fires in 2014, they accounted...