List of fire disasters

The list of fire disasters includes a selection of catastrophic fires . It excludes, for example, nuclear disasters and aviation and shipping disasters that did not have a catastrophic impact on the ground.

Images of various fire disasters

Painting of the great fire of Aachen , May 2, 1656

Fire of London

Great Fire of New York, 1776

Hamburg fire , 1842

Chicago Fire , 1871 - artist's impression by John R. Chapin

The burning airship "Hindenburg", May 6, 1937 - photograph

list

Antiquity to 1600

place	date	category	event	Fatalities	extent
Rome , Roman Empire	July 19, 64 - July 26, 64	City fire	City fire under Emperor Nero		large parts of ancient Rome
Bremen , D.	Sep 11 1041	City fire	Bremen fire	unknown	a large part of the old town including the cathedral is destroyed
Munich , D	Feb 13, 1327	City fire	City fire of Munich	30th	about a third of the city destroyed, u. a. the churches of St. Peter and the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit Hospital
Cölln (today: Berlin-Mitte) and Berlin , D	1378 and 1380	City fire		unknown	In 1378 large parts of Cölln were burned; the Berliners - on the other bank of the Spree - haughtily refused to help. Of course, that didn't stop them from begging the Cöllners when Berlin was on fire two years later.
Einbeck , D.	July 26, 1540	City fire	City fire of Einbeck		whole city, including the city archive
Arnstadt , D.	07 Aug 1581	City fire	Triggered when Pichen a gutter, the fire spreads out within three hours of the entire city, as a large part of the population is engaged in the fields with the harvest.		378 residential buildings, the town hall, the Bonifatiuskirche , schools, preachers' houses and the pharmacy fell victim to the flames. Only the Liebfrauenkirche and the poor district were spared.

17th century

place	date	category	event	Fatalities	extent
Magdeburg , D.	May 20, 1631	Devastation and city ​​fire	Magdeburg Blood Wedding in the Thirty Years War (" Swedish War ")	The massacres were about 20,000 victims. The number of those killed by fires is unknown.	In addition to six churches, 1,500 houses were destroyed. Only the cathedral, the monastery and the port areas survived the fire. The population decreased from 35,000 (1631) to 450 (1639). - Once one of the richest cities in Germany, Magdeburg was almost wiped out.
Aachen , D.	0May 2, 1656	City fire	City fire of Aachen	17th	4,664 houses destroyed
London , UK	2nd to 5th Sep 1666	City fire	Great fire of London	9	13,000 houses and 87 churches destroyed
Oldenburg (Oldb) , D	July 27, 1676	City fire	Oldenburg city fire		A thunderstorm sets the city on fire and almost completely destroys medieval buildings. Only a few buildings ( Lappan , Degodehaus ) remain.
Hardegsen , Lower Saxony, D	Dec. 24, 1678	City fire	Fire during the Christmas fair		A large part of the city center fell victim to a conflagration. People are not harmed because they are in the church when the fire breaks out.

18th century

place	date	category	event	Fatalities	extent
New York , USA	21 Sep 1776	City fire	Great New York Fire	500	400 to 1000 houses destroyed
Tullamore , County Offaly , Ireland	May 10, 1785	City fire	Triggered by a crashed hot air balloon	unknown	More than 130 houses destroyed

19th century

Contemporary painting of the Reichenhall fire in 1834

Map of the Great Fire of Turku 1822

place	date	category	event	Fatalities	extent
Melk , Austria	Dec 14, 1805	Building fire	Fire in Melk Abbey	200-300	Russian prisoners of war; after the French victory in the battle of Austerlitz
Podil / Kiev , Russian Empire, today: Ukraine	9-11 June 1811	City fire	Major fire of Podil	about 30	over 2000 houses, 12 churches, 3 monasteries
Moscow , Russia	Sep 14 1812 - September 18, 1812	City fire	Fire in Moscow (1812) , starting from several sources of fire, arson?	2000 soldiers (previously wounded) died	thousands (2/3 of the) houses destroyed
Tirschenreuth , D.	July 30, 1814	City fire	City fire of Tirschenreuth		The entire city was destroyed except for four buildings. A total of 907 buildings burned down
Turku , Finland	May 26, 1822	City fire	Great fire in Turku	27	11,000 people homeless, 2/3 of the city burned down (see picture), national archives destroyed
Grue , Norway	04th Sep 1827	Church fire	Fire in the church of Grue	at least 113	Church totally destroyed
Reichenhall , D.	8th-9th November 1834	City fire	Reichenhall town fire	11-13	only 24 of the city's 302 houses were spared, the saltworks had been destroyed and around 2500 people were homeless
Hamburg , D.	5th-8th May 1842	City fire	The great fire of Hamburg	51	devastated more than a quarter of the urban area
Bischofsmais , D	August 9, 1846	Village fire	Disaster with a major fire in the place		Village and parish church completely destroyed except for two houses and the rectory
Hauenstein summit tunnel , Switzerland	May 28, 1857	Tunnel fire	Fire in the Hauenstein summit tunnel	63	During the construction of the Hauenstein summit tunnel, support beams covered with soot caught fire
Glarus , Switzerland	10-11 May 1861	City fire	Fire from Glarus	10 - 12	Two thirds of the canton's capital, Glarus, were destroyed, and half (47%) of the residents became homeless.
Oberhofen am Thunersee , Switzerland	June 26, 1864	City fire	Village fire in Oberhofen on Lake Thun	1	73 buildings were destroyed, including 35 residential houses, 105 families with 414 people were made homeless
Chicago , USA	8-10 Oct. 1871	City fire	Great Chicago Fire	200-300	17,000 buildings destroyed
Peshtigo , Wisconsin , USA	0Oct 8, 1871	v. a. Forest fire , also city ​​fire	Peshtigo firestorm, firestorm fanned by strong winds over at least 4850 km², 12 locations destroyed	1200-2500	highest number of victims in a fire and in a natural disaster in the USA
Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate , D	June 27, 1868	City fire	Biggest fire in the city's history, suspected cause of arson	4 dead, including 3 firefighters	Destruction of 107 houses and 146 outbuildings
Nice , France	23 Mar 1881	Building fire after gas explosion	Opéra de Nice / Théâtre Royal de Nice	63
Thumb , Michigan, USA	05th Sep 1881			282	The localities affected were Sanilac, Lapeer, Tuscola and Huron.
Vienna , Austria	8th-9th December 1881	Building fire after gas explosion	Ring theater fire	officially 384 (probably up to 500)	only about 250 victims identified; the "Neue Freie Presse" reported on December 12, 1881 "142 people who were dead and 843 missing".
Hinckley , Minnesota, USA	0Sep 1 1894			418	Forest fire in the pine forest
Paris , F.	0May 4, 1897	Fire in a wooden barracks after a film projector powered by limestone was lit.	Fire in the Bazar de la Charité	129	Among the mostly prominent victims was Sophie in Bavaria , the younger sister of Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary

20th century

place	date	category	event	Fatalities	extent
Chicago , USA	Dec 30, 1903	Building fire	Fire in the Iroquois Theater	602 dead, 250 injured	The worst fire disaster in US history to date
Ålesund , Norway	Jan. 23, 1904	City fire	Triggered by an overturned kerosene lamp, almost the entire city center burns down. The fire lasted 16 hours, surprisingly only one person was killed.	1	Around 850 houses were destroyed, and over 10,000 residents were left homeless. With German help, the city will be rebuilt in Art Nouveau within three years .
East River , New York , NY , USA	June 15, 1904	Ship fire	The fire broke out in the hold of the paddle steamer General Slocum . The life-saving appliances were in poor condition.	at least 1021	Most of the fatalities were German-American . The accident led to the collapse of the district of Kleindeutschland .
San Francisco , CA , USA	Apr. 1906	City fire	Fires that got out of hand after an earthquake devastated the city	at least 700	Many people also died because looters were shot without warning.
Cloquet , Minnesota , USA	Oct. 1918	Forest fire		453	About 1,000 km² area burned.
New York City , NY, USA	25th Mar 1911	Factory fire	Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory , probably caused by a cigarette butt that fell on scraps of fabric. Most of the victims were underage seamstresses, many of whom jumped out the windows.	146
Plauen , D.	July 19, 1918	Factory fire	Fire at the AEG cartridge production facility , unexplained fire outbreak in the cartridge bag filling facility of an ammunition factory that spreads rapidly in the building.	292-301	Of the 484 employees, almost all of them women, 163 died in the flames. A majority of the 177 rescued later died from serious injuries. The ten-year-old reinforced concrete building suffered only minor damage.
Wöllersdorf , Austria	September 18, 1918	Factory fire	In Object 143 of the Austro-Hungarian Munitionsfabrik Wöllersdorf , powder was ignited and filled with grenades. This led to a catastrophic fire that killed almost all of the approximately 500 workers.	423 or more	It was just before noon and the side gates were locked to prevent the workers from taking a break too early. Almost everyone working in the property, including the military supervisory personnel, fell victim to the fire. No investigation is known.
near Kingston upon Hull , United Kingdom	23 Aug 1921	Airship fire	Broken skeleton of the rigid airship R38 and the resultant fire	44	The disaster ended British military airship travel.
Tokyo and Yokohama , Japan	0Sep 1 1923 - Sep. 3 1923	City fire	City fire triggered by the Great Kanto earthquake .	142,800 (including earthquake victims)	extensive destruction of Tokyo and Yokohama
near Pantelleria , Italy	Dec 21, 1923	Airship fire	Airship LZ 114 “Dixmude” struck by lightning and burned out	50	The disaster was the second worst in airship travel.
Vienna , Austria	July 15, 1927	Fire in the wake of a revolt	Palace of Justice fire	(-)	The “July revolt” in Vienna claims 89 lives, many of them shot.
near Beauvais , France	0Oct. 5, 1930	Airship fire	Airship R101 burns after contact with the ground	48	The worst disaster in civil airships meant the end of the British rigid airships .
Kurscha-2 , Soviet Union	0Aug 3, 1936	Forest fire	A train ordered to evacuate the population of the workers' settlement was trapped in the fire after the train ladder allowed important time to pass by loading wood. Around 1,200 residents of the town perished, only 20 survived.	about 1,200	Most sacrificed forest fire accident of all time in Europe, second worst worldwide
Crystal Place , London , United Kingdom	Nov 30, 1936	Building fire	Fire at the Crystal Palace	no dead or seriously injured	No personal injury, but the building was completely destroyed.
Gernika , Basque Country , Spain	Apr 26, 1937	Air raid on Guernica	German and Italian military pilots bomb the place	200+	a fire destroys large parts of the village
Lakehurst , New Jersey , USA	0May 6, 1937	Airship fire	Airship LZ 129 "Hindenburg" burns on landing	36	The Hindenburg disaster ushered in the end of the German zeppelins .
Coventry , UK	Nov 14, 1940	Air raid	" Operation Moonlight Sonata "	at least 568 dead, about 1000 injured	Almost the entire city center, 4,000 apartments and three quarters of the industrial plants were destroyed. The heaviest German air raid of World War II
Boston , Massachusetts , USA	Nov 28, 1942	Night club fire	Fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub	492 dead, hundreds injured	Second worst fire in US history after the fire in the Iroquois Theater in 1903
Hamburg , D.	July 1943	Air raid	Operation Gomorrah	34,000	Destruction of the city center
Haldenstein , Switzerland	Aug 20, 1943	Forest fire	Forest fire on the Calanda near Chur	no dead or seriously injured	Target practice at a recruiting school for heavy infantry weapons of the Swiss Army led to what is believed to be the largest forest fire in Swiss history on the wooded slopes of Calanda near Chur. Around 477 hectares of forest fell victim to the fire.
Kassel , D.	Oct 22, 1943	Air raid	Air raid on Kassel	7000 (estimated)	Destruction of the city center
Schaffhausen , Switzerland	0Apr 1, 1944	Air raid	Erroneous bombing of Schaffhausen by the US Air Force	40 dead, 271 injured	Serious attack on Switzerland during World War II. 471 people lost their homes to bombs and large fires, and 1,000 jobs were destroyed.
Hartford , Connecticut , USA	0July 6, 1944	Fire of a circus tent	Hartford Circus Fire	167–169 (sources contradicting sources) dead, at least 700 injured	Fire in the main tent of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus during a performance. The cause could never be determined.
Darmstadt , D.	11-12 Sept 1944	Air raid	Air raid on Darmstadt	11,500	99 percent of the old and inner city and a total of 78 percent of Darmstadt's buildings destroyed, 66,000 people homeless
Pforzheim , D.	Feb. 1945	Air raid	Air raid on Pforzheim	17,000	80% destruction of the city
Dresden , D.	Feb. 1945	Air raid	Air raids on Dresden	18,000-25,000	Destruction of the city center
Würzburg , D.	16. Mar. 1945	Air raid	Bomb raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945	5,000-7,000	Destruction of the old town
Hanau , D.	19 Mar 1945	Air raid	Air raid on Hanau on March 19, 1945	2,000	Destruction of the city center
Hildesheim , D.	22 Mar 1945	Air raid	Air raid on Hildesheim on March 22, 1945	824	Destruction of the old town and the cathedral
Tokyo , Japan	March 1945	Air raid	Air raids on Tokyo	83,793-100,000	Destruction of 41 km² urban area
Berlin , British Occupation Sector, D	0Feb 8, 1947	two-story restaurant is on fire	Karlslust dance hall fire , mask festival in Restaurant Loebel	81 dead, 150 injured	Stove pipes ignite the wooden ceiling, many are trampled to death and die from the collapse
Niterói , Brazil	Dec 17, 1961	Fire of a circus tent	Niterói circus fire	up to 500	officially arson
Brussels , Belgium	May 22, 1967	Department store fire	Fire of the À l'innovation department store	323	Fire broke out during an exhibition of US consumer goods. There was speculation about politically motivated arson. Ultimately, the cause of the fire is unknown.
Langenweddingen, Saxony-Anhalt, D	0July 6, 1967	Road traffic accidents , railroad accidents , hazardous material accident	Train accident in Langenweddingen	94 officially, including 44 children	after a tanker truck collided with a train
Munich, D	Feb 13, 1970	Building fire, arson attack	Arson attack on the old people's home of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Munich	7 dead, 15 injured	The perpetrators of the attack could never be determined. Several indications and also suspicions of the federal prosecutor's office that a left-wing radical group committed the act could not be corroborated.
Saint-Laurent-du-Pont , F.	Jan. 11, 1970	Building fire	A fire in the Club 5-7 nightclub in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont in eastern France kills 146 mostly young people	146 dead	A fire in a club 5-7 in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont in eastern France kills 146 mostly young people
Zurich , Switzerland	06th Mar 1971	Clinic fire	Fire disaster in the Burghölzli Psychiatric University Clinic, Zurich	28 dead, 15 injured	Locked doors and barred windows made it impossible for the fire department to rescue the patients in good time.
Pernitz , Lower Austria, A	December 17, 1971	Industrial fire	Fire in the paper mill of SCA Ortmann, then part of the Bunzl & Biach Group	5	The victims were firefighters
São Paulo , Brazil	0Feb. 1, 1974	Building fire	Fire of the Joelma skyscraper	188	Fire broke out on the 12th floor, due to insufficient fire protection measures the building burned out almost completely
Lüneburg Heath , D	Aug 1975	Forest fire	Fire in the Lüneburg Heath	5	7418 hectares of forest destroyed
Tenerife , Canary Islands, Spain	27 Mar 1977	Plane crash	Tenerife air disaster	583 dead, 61 injured	Collision and fire of two jumbo jets; until today the most serious civil aircraft accident without terrorist influence.
Dannenwalde , Potsdam District , D	Aug 14, 1977	Lightning struck a stack of 122 mm Katyusha missiles	Lightning ignited some of the rockets during the Dannenwalde rocket disaster , and other ammunition caught fire.	70 dead Russian soldiers (approx.)	Probably at least 1,000 missiles launched. Rocket strikes in all villages within a 20 km radius, an ammunition train parked nearby could still be maneuvered away.
Los Alfaques , Catalonia, Spain	July 11, 1978	Road traffic accident	A liquid gas tanker runs out, the gas ignites.	217 dead, 300 injured	the nearby campsite was destroyed
Abadan , Iran	Aug 19, 1978	Arson attack	Arson attack on the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran	430
Vienna , Austria	0Feb. 7, 1979	Department store fire	Gerngross department store		In addition to the eight standby teams of the professional fire brigade , 50 vehicles from the surrounding volunteer fire brigades from the surrounding districts are in use. The building cannot be saved.
Vienna , Austria	28 Sep 1979	Hotel fire	Hotel Augarten	25th
Las Vegas , Nevada , USA	Nov 21, 1980	Hotel fire	MGM Grand Hotel and Casino	85 dead, over 700 injured	This fire is the largest disaster in the state of Nevada to date
Bad Reichenhall , Germany	Nov 22, 1982	Road traffic accident	Fire tank truck	1	After a traffic accident involving a tanker truck loaded with 34,000 liters of gasoline, the cargo caught fire. The tanker driver burned in his driver's cab, the 7 residents from the house on the opposite side of the street were killed. T. seriously injured.
Bradford , Northern England, UK	May 11, 1985	Fire in the stadium	During a soccer game, the old wooden stand of the Bradford stadium catches fire .	56 dead, 265 injured
Basel / Schweizerhalle near Sandoz , CH	0Nov 1, 1986	Industrial fire	The major fire and contamination of the Rhine by extinguishing water		great fish deaths
Herborn , Hessen, D	0July 7, 1987	Road traffic accident	Great fire of Herborn	6 dead, 38 injured
London , UK	Nov 18, 1987	Fire in subway station	Fire at King's Cross St. Pancras station	31	Presumably a discarded match ignited dirt and trash under an escalator. Due to the chimney effect, the fire suddenly spread to the entire escalator and the counter hall above.
Lisbon , Portugal	Aug 25, 1988	City fire		1
Piper Alpha oil rig , North Sea , UK	0July 6, 1988	Gas explosion and subsequent oil fire	A defective compressor leaks gas that explodes and sets large parts of the oil rig on fire.	167 dead, 59 injured	worst accident on an oil rig
Ramstein Air Base , near Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	Aug 28, 1988	Aviation accident	Ramstein air conference accident	70 dead, 345 injured	Headquarters of the United States Air Forces in Europe
New York City , New York , USA	25th Mar 1990	Arson	Fire in a two-story nightclub	87
Oslo (Norway) / Frederikshavn (Denmark)	0Apr 6, 1990	Arson / large fire on the Scandinavian Star car ferry	A pile of bedclothes caught fire at around 2 a.m. The fire spread to the flammable wall and ceiling cladding, causing very dense and toxic smoke that spread over the entire ship. The smoke ensured that people either couldn't find the escape route or suffocated in their cabins.	159	The exact reason for the cause of the fire is unclear. One explanation says that a pyromaniac started the fire, but another explanation says it was a very serious case of insurance fraud . The fire that is responsible for the disaster was already the second fire that night, and there are also said to have been other fires after the evacuation of the ship.
Kuwait	1991	117 oil wells		?	Legacy of the 2nd Gulf War ; cleared by Red Adair by explosive charges
London, England, UK	Nov 20, 1992	Building fire	Fire at Windsor Castle	0	The fire broke out in the Queen's private chapel. The fire was started by a halogen spotlight that lit a curtain and raged for fifteen hours. It destroyed nine of the most important state apartments and another 100 rooms were badly damaged. The renovation work took five years.
Kobe , Japan	Jan. 17, 1995	City fire	City fire triggered by the Hanshin Awaji earthquake	More than 85 deaths from the fire, a total of 6,434 deaths from the earthquake and its consequences.	7,000 buildings burned down, an estimated 285 sources of fire after the earthquake. The fire started officially two days after the quake, as the extinguishing work was difficult due to poor water supply and equipment.
Baku , Azerbaijan	Oct 28, 1995	Rail transport	Fire in a crowded train of Baku Metro	289 dead, 269 injured	worst underground accident ever
Lübeck , Germany	Jan. 18, 1996	House fire after arson attack	Lübeck arson attack	10 dead, 55 injured
Düsseldorf Airport , Düsseldorf , D	Apr 11, 1996	Airport	Fire disaster at Düsseldorf Airport in 1996	17 dead, 88 injured
New Delhi , India	Sep 1997	movie theater		59
Gothenburg , Sweden	Oct 29, 1998		Major fire in a discotheque	63
Mont Blanc tunnel , France / Italy	24 Mar 1999	Road traffic accident	The engine of a Belgian truck catches fire and triggers the tunnel fire.	39	The fire could only be controlled 53 hours after the outbreak
Tauern tunnel , Austria	May 29, 1999	Road traffic accident in the motorway tunnel	Truck carrying dangerous chemical goods burns after a rear-end collision	12 dead, 42 injured
Enschede , the Netherlands	May 13, 2000	explosion	Due to a fire, almost 200 tons of fireworks explode.	23 dead, 947 injured	Almost 200 houses are destroyed and around 1,500 damaged in the Roombeek district.
Kitzsteinhorn , Kaprun 2 glacier lift , Austria	Nov 11, 2000	Rail traffic in the tunnel	The uphill train of the funicular was initially set on fire by an electric heater. Almost all passengers who flee in the tunnel choose the direction uphill.	155, of the 162 passengers, 150 die from smoke gas poisoning , 5 more dead	Most serious disaster in post-war Austrian history ; the fire was promoted by the leakage of hydraulic oil and ski clothing and accelerated by the chimney effect .

21st century

place	date	category	event	(Death) victim	extent
New York , NY , USA	Sep 11 2001	Terrorist attack	terror attacs at the 11th September 2001	3,006 dead	Worst terrorist attack so far
Gotthard road tunnel , Switzerland	Oct 24, 2001	Road traffic accident	Two trucks collide in the tunnel	11 dead, ten from smoke inhalation	Measure: the safety distance of the trucks is achieved by the new drop counter system
Lima , Peru	Dec 29, 2001	Building fire	The demonstration of fireworks triggers a fire in a shopping center and adjacent apartments.	282 dead, 134 injured	Serious fire disaster in the history of Peru
Daegu , South Korea	Feb 20, 2003	attempted extended suicide (self-immolation); Rail transport	Fire in the subway in Daegu	192 dead	Most serious fire disaster in the history of South Korea; Second worst accident in a metro system after the Baku metro accident
West Warwick , USA	Feb 20, 2003	Building fire	Fire disaster at The Station nightclub during a concert	100 dead, 230 injured	Fourth worst fire disaster in US history
Ghislenghien , Belgium	July 30, 2004	explosion	Gas explosion with fire at a gas - pipeline	24 dead, 132 injured
Asunción , Paraguay	0Aug 1, 2004	Building fire	Fire disaster in a shopping mall	394 dead, around 500 injured	Serious fire disaster in Paraguay's history
Weimar , Germany	0Sep 2 2004	Building fire, loss of cultural property	Fire in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library	0	Large parts of the building fabric, works of art, music, books are destroyed or damaged. Reopened in 2007, book restoration will last until 2015.
Buenos Aires , Argentina	Dec 30, 2004	Building fire	Fire disaster in the República Cromañón nightclub	194 dead, around 700 injured
Texas City , Texas, USA	23 Mar 2005	explosion	Explosion with fire in an oil refinery from BP	15 dead and many injured	Happened during the refining process, see under BP
Hemel Hempstead near London , UK	Dec 11, 2005	Industrial fire	20 fuel tanks go up in flames	43 injured
Peloponnese and Evia , Greece	24.-26. Aug 2007	Forest fire	Forest fires in Greece 2007	64 dead	During the forest fires in Greece in 2007 there were over 300 fires in the Peloponnese and Evia .
Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Germany	0Feb 3, 2008	House fire	House fire in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	9 dead	The cause of the fire was presumably negligence
Molo , Kenya	0Feb 1, 2009	Road traffic accident	Residents are killed while drawing fuel from a crashed tanker truck	> 111 dead
Victoria, Australia	0Feb 7, 2009	Bush fire	Victoria Bushfire 2009	173 dead
Beijing, China	0Feb 9, 2009	Building fire, high-rise, 44 floors	Shell of the Television Cultural Center , with the Hotel Mandarin Oriental	1 dead firefighter	Cause fireworks, building burned down without collapsing
Perm , Russia	0Dec 5, 2009	Building fire	Fire in a restaurant with dancing, probably caused by pyrotechnics	155 dead
Gulf of Mexico , Atlantic Ocean, USA	Apr 20, 2010	Fire on an oil rig	Explosion, fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig	11 dead, 17 injured	Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010
Karelia , Voronezh , region southeast of Moscow, Russia	July 2010 to August 2010	Forest and peat fires	Forest and peat fires in Russia in 2010	> 50 dead	> 800 sources of fire, ~ 2,000 km²,> 2,000 destroyed buildings, heavy smog in Moscow
Shanghai , China	Nov 15, 2010	Building fire	Fire in a high-rise building (28 floors), probably caused by construction work	53 dead
Nairobi , Kenya	Sep 12 2011	Fire in a pipeline	Fire in an above-ground gasoline line	120 dead
Tehran , Iran	Nov 12, 2011	Ammunition explosion		17 dead, 23 injured	"A politically motivated attack or an act of sabotage is excluded"
Comayagua , Honduras	Feb 15, 2012	Prison mutiny followed by arson	Fire in Comayagua prison	at least 377 dead, unknown number of injured	presumably arson by an inmate
Amuay, Paraguaná Peninsula , Venezuela	26 Aug 2012	Fire in a refinery area	Gas explosion on August 25 sets two large oil tanks on fire	at least 39 dead from explosions and fire, dozens injured	Gas explosion after a leak in the olefin plant in the Paraguaná refinery complex
Karachi , Pakistan	Sep 11 2012	Fire in a textile factory	See Ali Enterprises . Sparks ignited cotton balls and dye	more than 289 dead, dozens injured	Electric generator malfunction, worst industrial accident in Pakistan's history
Dhaka , Bangladesh	Nov 24, 2012	Fire in a textile factory	Fire in the Tazreen clothing factory	at least 117 dead, over 200 injured	The accident was the worst in a textile factory in Bangladesh. It sparked a public discussion about occupational safety in textile production.
Titisee-Neustadt , Germany	Nov 26, 2012	Fire in a facility for the disabled	Major fire in a Caritas workshop in Titisee-Neustadt , Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district	14 dead, 8 injured. Mainly physically and mentally disabled people were employed in the workshop. A carer was also among the dead.	The fire was preceded by an explosion caused by the uncontrolled escape of gas from a gas oven.
Santa Maria , Brazil	Jan. 27, 2013	Major fire in a discotheque	Fire disaster in the Kiss nightclub	238 dead, numerous injured	triggered by Bengali fire ; also security deficiencies
Backnang , Germany	10 Mar 2013	House fire	House fire in Backnang 2013	8 dead	The cause of the fire was presumably negligence
Lac-Mégantic , Québec , Canada	July 26, 2013	Railway accident, city fire, hazardous goods accident	Lac-Mégantic railway accident	at least 47 dead, numerous injured	a driverless freight train derailed at night, more than 30 buildings destroyed
Nuremberg , Germany	05th June 2014	Building fire in a historic church	Major fire in St. Martha Church	0	extensive destruction of the historical substance, which was hardly damaged in the world wars
Bucharest , Romania	Oct 30, 2015	Major fire in a discotheque	Fire disaster in Bucharest in 2015	63 dead, 147 injured	triggered by unauthorized fireworks show at the band Goodbye to Gravity ; serious basic safety deficiencies; numerous deaths from MDRO germs due to illegally diluted disinfectants in hospitals
Monterrey , Mexico	Feb 11, 2016	Prison fire	Topo Chico prison	at least 52 dead
San José Pinula , Guatemala	0March 8 2017	Fire in a youth home		at least 28 dead, many injured
London , UK	June 14, 2017	Fire in a residential high-rise	In Grenfell Tower in west London, a fire breaks out, the grows up within minutes to the full fire of the building	So far: At least 79 people dead or missing	The facade insulation made of plastic foam also burned.
Portugal	17th June 2017	Forest fire	Forest fires in Portugal 2017	65 dead	Apparently triggered by a thunderstorm.
Bahawalpur , Pakistan	June 25, 2017	Road traffic accident	Explosion of a tanker truck in eastern Pakistan	219 dead, 34 injured	Shortly after the accident, people rushed over from a nearby factory to skim the escaping fuel into containers they had brought with them for their own use. 10 minutes later the truck explodes.
Northern California , USA	0Oct 8, 2017	Forest fires, particularly in Sonoma County	The fires are promoted by a period of heat	As of October 12, 2017 (local time) at least 31 dead and hundreds missing	The evacuation was ordered in Calistoga .
Jecheon , South Korea	Dec 21, 2017	Building fire	probably by a vehicle in the parking lot	at least 28 dead and 26 injured
Kemerovo , Siberia, Russia	25th Mar 2018	"Winter Cherry" shopping and entertainment center (Зимняя Вишня)	Fire disaster in Kemerovo	at least 64 dead	Large 4-storey building with movie theaters on the upper floors, children among the victims
Athens region, Greece	July 2018	Forest fires	Forest fires in Greece 2018	100 dead, 170 injured	Second worst known forest fire in Europe by number of victims, worst since 1936
Sweden	July 2019	Forest fires	Forest fires in Sweden 2018	0
California, United States	July / August 2018 (see also: November)	Forest fires	California wildfires 2018	February 18 - November 22, 58 fires resulted in 102 deaths	Mendocino Complex in Mendocino was the largest recorded fire in California to date with an area of ​​1200 km²
Rio de Janeiro , Brazil	0Sep 2 2018	Building fire	Fire in the Brazilian National Museum	0	Destruction of the museum building and loss of approx. 90% of the collection
Emsland , Germany	September / October 2018	Moorbrand	Moor fire 2018 (Emsland)	0	Cause: missile tests on Bundeswehr training grounds
California, United States	Nov 2018	Forest fires in Northern and Southern California	Forest fires in California 2018 (detto)	84 dead	Camp Fire burned almost the entire settlement of Paradise Almost 20,000 buildings destroyed, insurance claims> = 7.9 billion euros
Hidalgo , Mexico	Jan. 2019	Explosion and fire in an illegally tapped pipeline	Hidalgo pipeline disaster	125 dead
Delhi , India	Feb 12, 2019	Hotel fire	Fire in a hotel in Delhi	17 dead
Paris , France	April 15, 2019	Major fire of a UNESCO World Heritage site	Notre-Dame fire in Paris 2019	0	Crossing tower, roof destroyed, vault damaged
Vienna , Austria	May 11, 2019	Major fire in the attic of a residential building with 6 floors and 10 stairs.		0	5 injured, top floor completely destroyed, 190 apartments damaged, 370 people given temporary accommodation
Circumpolar boreal forests (Alaska, Siberia, Greenland)	Since June 2019	Peat and vegetation fire	Forest fires in the boreal forests of the northern hemisphere in 2019	0 (immediately none)	"Unprecedented extent". Earlier in the season, more lightning strikes more sources of fire and burns more area and substance. Charred area is dark, soot that has been transported is discolored by snow and ice - lower albedo leads to increased absorption of solar heat and consequently to ice melting and thawing of permafrost. Emissions of fire and dew CO 2 (50 million t in June 2019) and methane from thawing permafrost intensify the greenhouse effect .
Kyoto , Japan	18th July 2019	Building fire	Arson attack on Kyoto animation	36 dead	Fire attack with spilled liquid.
Brazil and neighboring countries	July / August 2019	Forest fires	Forest fires in the Amazon rainforest 2019		Most of the fires are presumably arson
In the west of the country, India	Sep 2019	Explosions in chemical plant		> 12 dead, many dozen injured
Southeast Australia	Since September 2019	Forest / bush fire	Bush fires in Australia 2019/2020	28 dead (so far)	Worst bush fire in the history of Australia, 170,000 km² affected, many animals killed, thousands of houses destroyed.
near Monrovia , Liberia	Sep 18 2019	Building fire	A fire caused by a technical problem in a boarding school near Monrovia	27 dead
El Oued , Algeria	Sep 24 2019	Building fire	Eight newborns died in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in El Oued.	8 dead
Shuri , Japan	Oct 31, 2019	Building fires	Major fire of Shuri Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site	0	A total of 6 buildings with an area of ​​4,200 m² were completely destroyed
New Delhi, India	0Dec 8, 2019 (Sunday morning)	Factory fire, old town		at least 43	The fire broke out early on Sunday and workers were killed
Krefeld, Germany	0Jan. 1, 2020	Zoo fire	Fire at the Krefeld Zoo	at least 30 animals, including 5 orangutans, 2 lowland gorillas and a chimpanzee	On New Year's Eve, the monkey house at Krefeld Zoo burns due to prohibited fireworks. All animals in the monkey house except 2 chimpanzees are burned.
Icheon, South Korea	Apr 29, 2020	Fire at a building site	4-story warehouse under construction	at least 25	Explosion, ignition of material used to isolate the basement, rapid spread of fire, people are trapped
Central America	May 2020 (end of fire season)	Forest fires		?	CO 2 emissions higher than average from 2003 to 2019, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), 5,600 fires in Russia, 250 buildings destroyed
Siberia	May 2020	Forest and wildfires	Tundra at the Arctic Circle, in Siberia	?	Satellite observation - Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), 5,600 fires in Russia, 250 buildings destroyed

See also

• List of historical forest fires
• List of accidents in nuclear facilities
• List of theatrical fires
• List of fire disasters in Île-de-France
• Lists of aviation accidents
• List of shipping disasters
• List of serious accidents in rail transport
• List of mining accidents
• Chemical disasters
• List of the largest man-made, non-nuclear explosions
• List of disasters
• Bushfire in Australia

Web links

• Anne-Marie Dubler: Conflagrations (Switzerland). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

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