Executive Summary Fires caused by spontaneous combustion or chemical reaction accounted for an estimated average of 14,070 fires per year between 2005 and 2009. These included 3,200 structure fires, 1,150 vehicle fires, 5,250 outside non-trash and unclassified fires, and 4,460 outside trash or rubbish fires. The most common occupancy types for structure fires were residential (50% of fires), storage (12%), mercantile or business (9%) and manufacturing or processing (9%). Because the fires are coded as spontaneous combustion or chemical reaction there is no way to determine what the exact circumstances were (spontaneous combustion versus some other kind of chemical reaction). nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/fire-causes/chemical-and-gases/spontaneous-combustion-or-chemical-reaction
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