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FIRE STATISTICS: INSTALLATIONS, PROFITS & DAMAGE Average Number of Annual Fire Installations Per Dealer 2011 Fires, Civilian Deaths and Injuries, and Property Loss 156 Commerical 130 132 NUMBERS 1,389,500 +4.4% Residential Fires Commerical & Residential 125 Civilian deaths 3,005 -3.7% Civilian injuries 17,500 -1.2% $11.659 billion +0.6% 96 96 Property loss 52 96 108 There were 58,000 more fires reported in 2011, an overall increase of 4.4%. However, despite the increase in incidents the number of civilian deaths and injuries both declined. However, property loss nudged slightly upward. This category includes overall direct losses to contents, structures, vehicles, machinery, vegetation and anything else involved in a fire. It does not include indirect losses. In addition, no adjustment was made for inflation in the year-to-year comparison. Source: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 73 64 72 68 110 108 58 PERCENT CHANGE 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 The results indicate 2012 was a strong year for fire/life-safety business as the average number of systems being installed by dealers/integrators rose rather dramatically. The reported increase of 60 projects per installing contractor represents a whopping 63% upswing. One theory for this is the ramifications of 2011's historically high rate of weather-related disasters. The top five most common types of fire system projects are: office buildings (22%), residential (18%), industrial (15%), hospital/schools/universities (12%) and retail (9%). In total, 44% of security dealers/ integrators install fire/life-safety systems. Note: Commercial and residential projects were combined for post-2006. Fire FAST FACTS • Average commercial freonly installation costs $18,964, up $7,790 from 2011. • Average gross proft margin for commercial fre-only installations is 35%. • Average residential fre-only installations costs $1,092, up $138 from 2011. • Security contractors collect 12% of their total revenues from fre-only installations. • Average number of smoke detectors installed in a commercial fre alarm system is 25; residential is 5. • Average percentage of installations that include carbon monoxide (CO) detectors is 23%. • Personal emergency response systems (PERS) are offered by 31% of contractors. • 10% are in involved in sprinkler systems. 22 • 34% install mass notifcation systems. • In total, 3,005 civilian fre deaths occurred in 2011, a decrease of 3.7% from 2009. • 1,389,500 fre incidents were attended to by public fre departments in 2011, an increase of 4.4% from the previous year. • 484,500 fres occurred in structures, a small increase of 0.5%. • 370,000 fres, or 76%, of all structure fres occurred in residential properties. • 686,000 fres occurred in outside properties, an increase of 8.2%. • Every 23 seconds, a fre department responds to a fre somewhere in the nation. • A fre occurs in a structure at the rate of one every 65 seconds, and in particular, a residential fre occurs every 85 seconds. / SECURITYSALES.COM / THE GOLD BOOK 2013 Civilian Fire Deaths in U.S. Homes 2,695 2002 3,165 2003 3,225 2004 2005 2006 3,005 2,580 3,430 2007 2,780 2008 2009 2,590 2,640 2010 2011 2,520 2,500 2,700 2,900 3,100 3,300 3,500 An estimated 2,520 civilians died in residential fires during 2011, a decrease of 4.5% and the lowest total of the past 10 years. Of these deaths, 415 took place in apartment fires, an 8% decline from the previous year. Another 2,105 died in one- and two-family dwellings, a decrease of 4.3%. "Homes" include dwellings, duplexes, manufactured homes (mobile homes), apartments, rowhouses, townhouses and condominiums. Other residential properties, such as hotels, motels, dormitories, barracks, and rooming and boarding homes are not included. Source: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)