People 50-plus fire death and risk report: a compilation of state-by-state data

The U. S. Fire Administration (USFA) developed the People 50-Plus Fire Death and Risk Report to provide fire educators, journalists, public decision-makers and others with a deeper comprehension of the risk of death from unintentional home fires that older people in our country face. The report shows the risk nationally for people ages 50 – 64, and details the state-by-state rates for the age groups whose risk escalates with successive decades: 65 – 74-year-olds, 75 – 84-year-olds, and people 85 and older. The report is based on residential fire death numbers for each state provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.