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 |
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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]
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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]
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