Fire Underwriters Report

Title

Fire Underwriters Report

Accession Number

2025.32.1.2.2

Accession Date

9 February 2026

Accession Creator

Emma Lilyea

Description

"National Board of Fire Underwriters - Report of the Committee on Statistics and Origin of Losses"
Addressed to "Mr. President and Gentlemen"
Dated "New York, May 25, 1961"
Headings of the report include "Fires in Cities," "Causes of Ignition & Materials Ignited," and "Factors Involved in Large Loss Fires." There are 8 tables and charts included. They are titled "Table 1: Annual Fire Loss in the United States for Eighty-Six Years - 1875-1960 Inclusive," "Table II: Incurred Monthly Fire Losses in the United States," "Table III: Estimated Number of Fires During 1960 in All United States Communities of 2,500 or more inhabitants classified by types of occupancy and Size of City. Estimates based on reports received from fire chiefs of 2,461 cities," "Table IV: Fires Resulting From Unknown Causes of Ignition," "Table V: Classification of Materials Ignited in Fires," "Table VI: Frequency of Occurrence of Outstanding Factors which contributed to the size of the loss of 629 fires of $100,000 and over during 1960 and 3227 fires for a seven year period 1954 to 1960 inclusive," "Chart 1: Estimated number of fires during 1959 in all United States Communities of 2,500 or more inhabitants in buildings and other than buildings, by years. Estimates for 1942 to 1946 based on reports from fire chiefs to the President's conference on fire prevention. Estimates for later years based on reports from fire chiefs submitted to the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Number of Cities Reporting - 2,461" and "Chart II: Number of Fires in the United States during 1960 per 1000 population by size of city."

Creator

National Board of Fire Underwriters

Date

25 May 1961

Format

Paper

Storage Location

Fire Records Alarms 1

Relation

Broughton Colvin Collection