List of high-rise façade fires

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]

Updated on 08/2020, after Bonner et al., 2020.

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