List of high-rise façade fires
Appearance
This is a list of high-rise building fires where the flames were seen to involve the façade.
The original dataset used to create this list[1] was found by searching news reports and research literature 1990 to 2019, and it may be biased towards high-profile fires and English-speaking reporting.
Index | Date | Building | City | Country | Images | Deaths | Injuries | Number of floors affected by fire |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | January 10, 1990 | 393 Kennedy St[2] | Winnipeg | Canada | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4 |
2 | January 1, 1991 | Mercantile Credit Building[3] | Basingstoke | UK | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3 |
3 | April 5, 1991 | Knowsley Heights[2][4] | Liverpool | UK | ![]() |
0 | 0 | n/a |
4 | September 6, 1993 | Sun Valley Poultry Factory[5] | Hereford | UK | ![]() |
2 | n/a | n/a |
5 | April 11, 1996 | Düsseldorf Airport fire | Düsseldorf | Germany | n/a | 17 | 62-88 | n/a |
6 | October 28, 1996 | Motomachi Apartments[2][6] | Hiroshima | Japan | n/a | 0 | 2 | 12 |
7 | September 30, 1997 | Eldorado Hotel[2][7] | Reno | USA | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a |
8 | June 20, 1998 | Palace Station Hotel and Casino[2] | Las Vegas, | USA | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a |
9 | June 11, 1999 | Garnock Court fire[2][8][9][10] | Irvine | Scotland | n/a | 1 | 4 | 7 |
10 | June 2, 2002 | Tip Top Bakery[2][11] | Fairfield | Australia | n/a | 0 | 1 | n/a |
11 | July 29, 2003 | Telstar House[12] | London | UK | n/a | 0 | 3 | 4 |
12 | October 17, 2004 | Parque Central Complex[13] | Caracas | Venezuela | ![]() |
0 | 25 | 17 |
13 | February 12, 2005 | Windsor Tower (Madrid)[14] | Madrid | Spain | 0 | 7 | 32 | |
14 | April 21, 2005 | Treskowstrasse Pankow Flats[2] | Berlin | Germany | n/a | 2 | 3 | 5 |
15 | September 23, 2007 | Water Club Tower, Borgata Casino Hotel[2] | Atlantic City | USA | n/a | n/a | n/a | 39 |
16 | January 25, 2008 | MGM Monte Carlo Hotel[2][15] | Las Vegas | USA | ![]() |
n/a | n/a | 4 |
17 | May 9, 2008 | De Punt fire | De Punt | Netherlands | 3 | o | n/a | |
18 | February 9, 2009 | Beijing Television Cultural Center fire[2] | Beijing | China | ![]() |
1 | 7 | 44 |
19 | July 3, 2009 | Lakanal House fire[16][17] | London | UK | n/a | 6 | 20 | n/a |
20 | August 15, 2009 | Kozepszer Street Flats[2] | Miskolc | Hungary | n/a | 3 | n/a | 6 |
21 | July 6, 2010 | Al Kuwait Tower[18][19] | Sharjah | UAE | n/a | n/a | n/a | 10 |
22 | September 1, 2010 | Wooshin Golden Suites fire[2][20] | Busan | South Korea | ![]() |
0 | 5 | 35 |
23 | November 14, 2010 | 4 Rue du Lac Flats[2][21] | Dijon | France | n/a | 7 | 11 | n/a |
24 | November 15, 2010 | Jiaozhou Road[22][23] | Shanghai | China | ![]() |
58 | 71 | 28 |
25 | February 3, 2011 | Royal Wanxin Hotel[24][25] | Shenyang | China | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
26 | January 18, 2012 | Al Baker Tower[26][27] | Sharjah | UAE | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
27 | April 28, 2012 | Al Tayer Tower[2][28] | Sharjah | UAE | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a |
28 | May 14, 2012 | Mermoz Tower[2] | Roubaix | France | n/a | 1 | 6 | 17 |
29 | July 17, 2012 | Polat Tower[29][30] | Istanbul | Turkey | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a |
30 | October 6, 2012 | Saif Belhasa Building[2][31] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 2+ | 9 |
31 | November 18, 2012 | Tamweel Tower[2][32][33] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a |
32 | April 3, 2013 | Grozny-City Towers[2][34] | Chechnya | Russia | n/a | 0 | 0 | 40 |
33 | April 22, 2013 | Al Hafeet Tower 2[35] | Sharjah | UAE | n/a | 0 | n/a | 10 |
34 | September 21, 2014 | Krasnoyarsk Apartments[36] | Krasnoyarsk | Russia | n/a | 0 | n/a | 25 |
35 | November 25, 2014 | Lacrosse Building[37][38] | Melbourne | Australia | n/a | 0 | 0 | 16 |
36 | February 21, 2015 | The Marina Torch[39] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 7 | 60 |
37 | May 19, 2015 | Baku Residential Flats[40][41] | Baku | Azerbaijan | 16 | 63 | n/a | |
38 | October 1, 2015 | Al Nasser Tower[42][43] | Sharjah | UAE | n/a | 0 | 40 | 26 |
39 | December 31, 2015 | Address Downtown Hotel[44][45] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 15 | n/a |
40 | March 28, 2016 | Ajman One Complex[46][47] | Ajman | UAE | n/a | 0 | n/a | n/a |
41 | July 20, 2016 | Sulafa Tower[48] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | n/a | 30 |
43 | August 19, 2016 | Shepherds Court[49][50][51] | London | UK | n/a | 0 | 1 | 3 |
44 | November 9, 2016 | Neo Soho Project[52][53] | Jakarta | Indonesia | n/a | 0 | 0 | 7 |
45 | December 1, 2016 | Al Bandary Tower B[54] | Sharjah | UAE | n/a | 0 | 4 | n/a |
46 | December 13, 2016 | Oceana Adriatic Building[55] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a |
42 | May 3, 2016 | Longsheng Building[56] | Nanjing | China | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a |
47 | March 2, 2017 | Address Residences Fountain Views[57][58] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 0 | 3 |
48 | June 14, 2017 | Grenfell Tower fire[59][60] | London | UK | ![]() |
72 | 70 | 24 |
49 | August 4, 2017 | The Marina Torch[61][62] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 0 | 64/87 |
50 | February 1, 2018 | Yuansheng International[63][64] | Zhengzhou | China | n/a | 0 | n/a | 20 |
51 | April 5, 2018 | Taksim Ilk Yardim Hospital[65] | Istanbul | Turkey | n/a | 0 | 0 | 14 |
52 | May 15, 2018 | Zen Tower[66][67] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 0 | 15 |
53 | February 4, 2019 | Neo 200[68][69] | Melbourne | Australia | n/a | 0 | 0 | 6 |
54 | March 14, 2019 | Kaifeng Apartments[citation needed] | Kaifeng | China | n/a | 0 | n/a | 17 |
55 | May 27, 2019 | Golden Eagle Shopping Mall[70] | Nanjing | China | n/a | 0 | 0 | 1 |
56 | May 29, 2019 | Commercial Building[71] | Luoyang | China | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a |
57 | August 14, 2019 | Residential Flats[72] | Warsaw | Poland | n/a | n/a | n/a | 10 |
58 | November 16, 2019 | The Cube Student Housing[73][74][75] | Bolton | UK | n/a | 0 | 2 | 1 |
59 | May 5, 2020 | Abbco Tower[76][77] | Sharjah | UAE | n/a | 0 | 12 | 48 |
60 | July 27, 2020 | Business Centre[78] | Ankara | Turkey | n/a | 0 | n/a | n/a |
61 | August 29, 2020 | Madrid Tower Block[79] | Madrid | Spain | n/a | 0 | n/a | 3 |
62 | October 8, 2020 | Apartment Block[80] | Ulsan | South Korea | n/a | 0 | 91 | 33 |
63 | March 9, 2021 | Apartment Building[citation needed] | Shijiazhuang | China | n/a | 0 | 0 | 26 |
64 | August 29, 2021 | Torre dei Moro fire[81] | Milan | Italy | n/a | 0 | 0 | 20 |
65 | November 7, 2022 | Apartment Building[82] | Dubai | UAE | n/a | 0 | 0 | 35 |
66 | February 22, 2024 | 2024 València residential complex fire[83] | València | Spain | ![]() |
10 | 15 | 14 |
Plot showing the number of large façade fires worldwide every five years from 1990 to November 2019. Data found from news articles and online.[84][85]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/FrequencyBarPlot.jpg/506px-FrequencyBarPlot.jpg)
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