Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) (2011).
This topical report addresses the characteristics of university housing fires reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) between 2007 and 009 and is an update to the topical report, University Housing Fires (Volume 10, Issue 1, released June 2010). From 2007 to 2009, an estimated 3,800 university housing fires occurred in the United States each year. These fires account for approximately 1 percent of total residential building fires responded to by fire departments across the United States. University housing fires resulted in a yearly average of 0 deaths, 25 injuries, and $9 million in property loss.
