Center of Fire Statistics Meeting: Looking back at the year 2025
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The CTIF Center for Fire Statistics (CFS-CTIF) held its regular meeting and prepared the annual report on 2025 activities. Notable highlights include the release of Report No. 30 (2025), which provides data from countries and cities worldwide on fire statistics for 2023, as well as information on fire service call types, the number of fires, fire victims, and firefighter deaths from 2019 to 2023.
For 2023, data from 46 countries, covering 1.5 billion people, and 25 cities were included. The report also details fires ervice call types, fire counts, victims, and fatalities for 2019–2023 across 55, 76, 71, and 29 countries, respectively.
Data on fire injuries from 2019-2023 were collected in 54 countries, and fire service information from 66 countries worldwide was compiled. Report 30 features a special chapter titled "Towers on Fire"; focusing on fires in high-rise buildings, complemented by a s-comprehensive-analysis-fire-statistics-2023\urvey among CTIF member states (more details at https://mail.ctif.org/news/world-fire-statistics-report-no-30)
A major event in 2025 was the publication of the book "100 Cities – 100 Years Evaluation of Urban Fire Risks” (more details at: https://www.generis-publishing.com/books.phpcategory=1331&category=all&sort=latest&language=all&search=100%20 Cities).
Additionally, the Center contributed a large book donation to the CTIF library in Pribyslav, Czech Republic (see: https://mail.ctif.org/news/ctif-donated-large-book-collection-central-ctif- library-pribyslav).
In November 2025, the CTIF Center for Fire Statistics launched a new official Asian-Pacific Wing, with Singapore Civil Defense Forces expected to support global fire statistics efforts (more info at: https://mail.ctif.org/news/ctif-center-fire-statistics-has-inaugurated-new-official- asian-pacific-wing-2025).
Dr. Peter Wagner from CTIF also delivered a presentation on "Innovations in Fire Safety, Standards and Practices"; at SIDEX 2025 in Singapore (see: https://ctif.org/news/ctifs-dr-peter-wagner-spoke-innovations-fire-safety-stand…)
We will soon publish our planned activities for 2026.
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Global Fire Statistics. Illustration executed by MS CoPilot from a prompt by Bjorn Ulfsson.