| TOP 10 MOST CATASTROPHIC MULTIPLE-DEATH FIRES, 2013 (1) |
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| Rank |
Month |
State |
Type of facility |
Deaths |
| 1 |
June |
Arizona |
Wildfire |
19 |
| 2 |
April |
Texas |
Fertilizer plant |
15 |
| 3 |
July |
Pennsylvania |
Three-story duplex home |
7 |
| 4 |
May |
Pennsylvania |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 5 |
September |
Ohio |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 6 |
October |
West Virginia |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 7 |
January |
Kentucky |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 8 |
February |
Indiana |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 9 |
March |
Illinois |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 10 |
April |
Idaho |
Single-family home |
5 |
(1) Fires that kill five or more people in residential property, or three or more people in nonhome or nonstructural property.
Source: Reproduced with permission from Catastrophic Multiple-death Fires in 2013 by Stephen G. Badger, ©National Fire Protection Association. www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics. |
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