How many people die in fires in Norway?

In 2025, DSB recorded 39 people who died in fires in Norway (0.70 per 100,000 people) and FHI's cause of death register recorded 35 accidental fire deaths (0.62); DSB's count was 56 in 1994 (1.29) and highest at 81 in 2008 (1.70).

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People who died in fires in Norway, 2025

people who died in fires, 2025

High trust, 82 of 100 The sources disagree: their figures run from 35 to 39.

Each source by year: people who died in fires

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Year	DSB, statistics on people who died in fires (Omkomne i brann)	FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D8b_ulykker: "Brann"	WHO Mortality Database, smoke, fire and flames, Norway
1980	–	–	73
1981	–	–	75
1982	–	–	55
1983	–	–	46
1984	–	–	68
1985	–	–	70
1986	–	–	68
1987	–	–	66
1988	–	–	51
1989	–	–	65
1990	–	–	69
1991	–	–	63
1992	–	–	73
1993	–	–	59
1994	56	–	54
1995	62	–	57
1996	69	67	67
1997	68	64	63
1998	52	52	52
1999	60	54	54
2000	56	57	56
2001	65	55	55
2002	64	59	60
2003	56	52	52
2004	55	56	56
2005	65	61	61
2006	64	54	54
2007	74	68	68
2008	81	68	68
2009	61	53	53
2010	65	56	56
2011	45	36	36
2012	41	35	35
2013	60	57	57
2014	54	48	48
2015	35	40	40
2016	40	37	37
2017	27	20	20
2018	39	31	31
2019	40	29	29
2020	44	29	29
2021	40	37	37
2022	41	30	30
2023	36	28	28
2024	36	31	31
2025	39	35	–

What this number counts

Counts: People who died from a fire, counted once per person
Where: Norway
When: Calendar year 2025 (one year, not an average)

The DSB figure (2025). When sources differ, we show the middle one, with better sources counting more.

Where the number comes from (3 sources)

Source	Figure and year	Definition	Quality	Counts for
DSB, statistics on people who died in fires (Omkomne i brann)Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap, DSB) · Administrative recordsRetrieved 2026-11-02	392025	People who died in Norway as a direct result of a fire, from burns or smoke, within three months of the fire, whether or not they lived in Norway or had a Norwegian ID number. People who die from blows, falling objects or fractures are not counted. DSB builds the list from police and fire service reports and by watching the media (rules as described in RISE reports for DSB: https://risefr.no/media/publikasjoner/upload/2017/a17-20176-1-analyse-av-dodsbranner-i-norge-i-perioden-2005-2014.pdf PDF pp. 13-14; https://www.dsb.no/siteassets/rapporter-og-publikasjoner/rise/analyse-av-dodsbranner-i-norge-i-perioden-2015-2020/ PDF p. 14). Read from the data of the chart "Omkomne i brann 1994 - 2025" in the page source (raw/norway-fire-deaths/dsb/omkomne-i-brann.html); the total is men plus women. DSB also lists the year so far: 30 people to 30 October 2026.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. DSB's page gives no definition; the rules are set out in the RISE reports DSB commissioned, one of them hosted on dsb.no. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. DSB is the state directorate that keeps Norway's official fire statistics (RISE 2017, PDF p. 13). Yes: Full count or representative sample. Meant to cover every fire death in Norway, from police and fire service reports plus DSB watching the media; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Yearly counts by sex sit in the chart on DSB's page, with CSV and XLS export; individual records are not public. No: No known break or quality problem. Police do not automatically pass autopsy results to DSB, so a person found to have died before the fire can stay registered; DSB says BRIS lacks two deaths in 2016.	67%
FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D8b_ulykker: "Brann"Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet, FHI) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-11-02 · Data (API)	352025	Directness 0.5: this counts accidental fire deaths on death certificates, not every death from a fire. The subgroup numbers below are defined as accidental fire deaths, so FHI measures them directly. Deaths of people registered as resident in Norway, wherever they died, whose underlying cause is ICD-10 X00-X09 (FHI's group "Brann"), by year of death. People who die during a temporary stay in Norway are in the register since 15 June 2012 but FHI keeps them out of its statistics bank. Arson (X97), self-harm (X76), undetermined intent (Y26) and transport accidents (V01-V99) fall outside these codes. 2025 is a complete year, published in October 2026. Table D8b_ulykker (id 277), from the open API (https://statistikk-data.fhi.no/api/open/v1/daar/Table/277/data). Definitions: https://statistikk-data.fhi.no/api/open/v1/daar/Table/277/metadata.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. FHI publishes the ICD-10 codes of each group, its coding rules and notes on comparability over time. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. FHI marks the table as official statistics from the Cause of Death Registry. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Every death certificate of a person resident in Norway; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Counts and rates by year, sex, age and cause download free from FHI's statistics bank and its open API. No: No known break or quality problem. FHI reports ever fewer autopsies, which makes diagnoses harder to check, lacks the cause for most deaths abroad, and revised earlier years when it changed method with the 2017 data.	33%
WHO Mortality Database, smoke, fire and flames, NorwayWorld Health Organization (WHO) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-25	312024	Same register as FHI, as Norway reports it to WHO: not counted again. ICD-10 X00-X09 from 1996, ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B51 (E890-E899) from 1986, ICD-8 List A item A142 (E890-E899) before that. All sexes, all ages, Norway's own rows only. Carries the register back before FHI's table starts in 1996. Raw files: morticd08.zip, morticd09.zip, morticd10_part1-6.zip and morticd10_add.zip (Norway.xlsx), in raw/homicide-rate-by-country. Its counts equal FHI's in 1996-2024 except 3 years (1997, 2000, 2002), each by one death.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. WHO documents its cause lists and codes for each ICD revision. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official national death registrations as Norway sends them to WHO. Yes: Full count or representative sample. All registered deaths for the country; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. The WHO Mortality Database files download free. No: No known break or quality problem. Crosses two ICD revisions before 1996, so the fire group changes in 1986 and 1996.	Not counted

Better and more direct sources count for more. A source that only copies another does not count.

DSB 67%FHI 33%

DSB67%
FHI33%

Shown but not counted: WHO (republishes FHI).

How the trust score was worked out

Quality32 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement23.8 / 30: How close the sources are to each other
Independence16 / 20: How many separate ways the number was measured
Freshness10 / 10: How recent the newest data is

How the score works

Who reports it, and since when

Which kinds of source measure this number, which years each one published, and where the reporting stops or has holes.

Death and health registers · 2Administrative records · 1

No source of these kinds: independent count.

DSB, 1994: DSB's page publishes the yearly count split into men and women from 1994. It gives no yearly split by age. source
DSB, 2016: DSB's reporting system BRIS came into use on 1 January 2016. Salten 110-sentral joined on 26 April 2016, and DSB states that BRIS statistics on deaths lack 2 people from that area in 2016. source
FHI, 1996: FHI's accident tables D8a, D8b and D8c, with the group "Brann" (ICD-10 X00-X09), start with 1996. source
FHI, 2012: From 15 June 2012 the register records deaths of people on a temporary stay in Norway. FHI keeps these out of the statistics bank "for statistical reasons". source
FHI, 2017: With the 2017 data FHI changed how it handles deaths not reported to the register and how it works out whether a person was resident in Norway, which changed some earlier years. source
FHI, 2020: FHI moved to electronic death certificates in 2020/2021. The change it describes concerns hip fractures and falls; it names no effect on fire deaths. source
FHI, 2025: The table by age hides small cells (":", "anonymised or hidden for other reasons"), so several age groups have no value in many years, including 30-49 and 90 and over in 2025. source
WHO, 1986: WHO's Norway data move from ICD-8 to ICD-9 in 1986: item A142 up to 1985, item B51 from 1986. source
WHO, 1996: WHO's Norway data move from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 1996: item B51 up to 1995, X00-X09 from 1996. source

Years each source has a figure here

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Fire deaths per 100,000 people in Norway, 2025

0.7

people who died in fires per 100,000 people, 2025

High trust, 81 of 100 The sources disagree: their figures run from 0.62 to 0.7.

Each source by year: people who died in fires per 100,000 people

Recorded change in how a source reports; hover or focus the ring for details.

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Year	DSB, statistics on people who died in fires (Omkomne i brann)	FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D8b_ulykker: "Brann"	WHO Mortality Database, smoke, fire and flames, Norway
1980	–	–	1.79
1981	–	–	1.83
1982	–	–	1.34
1983	–	–	1.11
1984	–	–	1.64
1985	–	–	1.69
1986	–	–	1.63
1987	–	–	1.58
1988	–	–	1.21
1989	–	–	1.54
1990	–	–	1.63
1991	–	–	1.48
1992	–	–	1.7
1993	–	–	1.37
1994	1.29	–	1.25
1995	1.42	–	1.31
1996	1.57	1.53	1.53
1997	1.54	1.45	1.43
1998	1.17	1.17	1.17
1999	1.34	1.21	1.21
2000	1.25	1.27	1.25
2001	1.44	1.22	1.22
2002	1.41	1.3	1.32
2003	1.23	1.14	1.14
2004	1.2	1.22	1.22
2005	1.41	1.32	1.32
2006	1.37	1.16	1.16
2007	1.57	1.44	1.44
2008	1.7	1.43	1.43
2009	1.26	1.1	1.1
2010	1.33	1.15	1.15
2011	0.91	0.73	0.73
2012	0.82	0.7	0.7
2013	1.18	1.12	1.12
2014	1.05	0.93	0.93
2015	0.67	0.77	0.77
2016	0.76	0.71	0.71
2017	0.51	0.38	0.38
2018	0.73	0.58	0.58
2019	0.75	0.54	0.54
2020	0.82	0.54	0.54
2021	0.74	0.68	0.68
2022	0.75	0.55	0.55
2023	0.65	0.51	0.51
2024	0.65	0.56	0.56
2025	0.7	0.62	–

What this number counts

Counts: People who died from a fire, per 100,000 residents of Norway (crude rate, not age-standardised)
Where: Norway
When: Calendar year 2025 (one year, not an average)

The DSB figure (2025). When sources differ, we show the middle one, with better sources counting more.

Where the number comes from (3 sources)

Source	Figure and year	Definition	Quality	Counts for
DSB, statistics on people who died in fires (Omkomne i brann)Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap, DSB) · Administrative recordsRetrieved 2026-11-02	0.72025	People who died in Norway as a direct result of a fire, from burns or smoke, within three months of the fire, whether or not they lived in Norway or had a Norwegian ID number. People who die from blows, falling objects or fractures are not counted. DSB builds the list from police and fire service reports and by watching the media (rules as described in RISE reports for DSB: https://risefr.no/media/publikasjoner/upload/2017/a17-20176-1-analyse-av-dodsbranner-i-norge-i-perioden-2005-2014.pdf PDF pp. 13-14; https://www.dsb.no/siteassets/rapporter-og-publikasjoner/rise/analyse-av-dodsbranner-i-norge-i-perioden-2015-2020/ PDF p. 14). Divided by SSB's mean population for each year, the average of the populations on 1 January that year and the next (5,610,870 for 2025; table 06913). DSB's count includes people who did not live in Norway, while the population does not.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. DSB's page gives no definition; the rules are set out in the RISE reports DSB commissioned, one of them hosted on dsb.no. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. DSB is the state directorate that keeps Norway's official fire statistics (RISE 2017, PDF p. 13). Yes: Full count or representative sample. Meant to cover every fire death in Norway, from police and fire service reports plus DSB watching the media; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Yearly counts by sex sit in the chart on DSB's page, with CSV and XLS export; individual records are not public. No: No known break or quality problem. Police do not automatically pass autopsy results to DSB, so a person found to have died before the fire can stay registered; DSB says BRIS lacks two deaths in 2016.	67%
FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D8b_ulykker: "Brann"Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet, FHI) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-11-02 · Data (API)	0.622025	Directness 0.5: this counts accidental fire deaths on death certificates, not every death from a fire. The subgroup numbers below are defined as accidental fire deaths, so FHI measures them directly. Deaths of people registered as resident in Norway, wherever they died, whose underlying cause is ICD-10 X00-X09 (FHI's group "Brann"), by year of death. People who die during a temporary stay in Norway are in the register since 15 June 2012 but FHI keeps them out of its statistics bank. Arson (X97), self-harm (X76), undetermined intent (Y26) and transport accidents (V01-V99) fall outside these codes. 2025 is a complete year, published in October 2026. Divided by SSB's mean population for each year, the average of the populations on 1 January that year and the next (5,610,870 for 2025; table 06913).	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. FHI publishes the ICD-10 codes of each group, its coding rules and notes on comparability over time. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. FHI marks the table as official statistics from the Cause of Death Registry. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Every death certificate of a person resident in Norway; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Counts and rates by year, sex, age and cause download free from FHI's statistics bank and its open API. No: No known break or quality problem. FHI reports ever fewer autopsies, which makes diagnoses harder to check, lacks the cause for most deaths abroad, and revised earlier years when it changed method with the 2017 data.	33%
WHO Mortality Database, smoke, fire and flames, NorwayWorld Health Organization (WHO) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-25	0.562024	Same register as FHI, as Norway reports it to WHO: not counted again. ICD-10 X00-X09 from 1996, ICD-9 Basic Tabulation List item B51 (E890-E899) from 1986, ICD-8 List A item A142 (E890-E899) before that. All sexes, all ages, Norway's own rows only. Carries the register back before FHI's table starts in 1996. Raw files: morticd08.zip, morticd09.zip, morticd10_part1-6.zip and morticd10_add.zip (Norway.xlsx), in raw/homicide-rate-by-country. Its counts equal FHI's in 1996-2024 except 3 years (1997, 2000, 2002), each by one death.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. WHO documents its cause lists and codes for each ICD revision. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official national death registrations as Norway sends them to WHO. Yes: Full count or representative sample. All registered deaths for the country; not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. The WHO Mortality Database files download free. No: No known break or quality problem. Crosses two ICD revisions before 1996, so the fire group changes in 1986 and 1996.	Not counted

Better and more direct sources count for more. A source that only copies another does not count.

DSB 67%FHI 33%

DSB67%
FHI33%

Shown but not counted: WHO (republishes FHI).

How the trust score was worked out

Quality32 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement23.1 / 30: How close the sources are to each other
Independence16 / 20: How many separate ways the number was measured
Freshness10 / 10: How recent the newest data is

How the score works

Who reports it, and since when

Which kinds of source measure this number, which years each one published, and where the reporting stops or has holes.

Death and health registers · 2Administrative records · 1

No source of these kinds: independent count.

DSB, 1994: DSB's page publishes the yearly count split into men and women from 1994. It gives no yearly split by age. source
DSB, 2016: DSB's reporting system BRIS came into use on 1 January 2016. Salten 110-sentral joined on 26 April 2016, and DSB states that BRIS statistics on deaths lack 2 people from that area in 2016. source
FHI, 1996: FHI's accident tables D8a, D8b and D8c, with the group "Brann" (ICD-10 X00-X09), start with 1996. source
FHI, 2012: From 15 June 2012 the register records deaths of people on a temporary stay in Norway. FHI keeps these out of the statistics bank "for statistical reasons". source
FHI, 2017: With the 2017 data FHI changed how it handles deaths not reported to the register and how it works out whether a person was resident in Norway, which changed some earlier years. source
FHI, 2020: FHI moved to electronic death certificates in 2020/2021. The change it describes concerns hip fractures and falls; it names no effect on fire deaths. source
FHI, 2025: The table by age hides small cells (":", "anonymised or hidden for other reasons"), so several age groups have no value in many years, including 30-49 and 90 and over in 2025. source
WHO, 1986: WHO's Norway data move from ICD-8 to ICD-9 in 1986: item A142 up to 1985, item B51 from 1986. source
WHO, 1996: WHO's Norway data move from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in 1996: item B51 up to 1995, X00-X09 from 1996. source

Years each source has a figure here

'01'05'10'15'20'25DSBFHIWHO

figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change

People who died in fires, by sex, DSB (count, 1994-2025)

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

Men
Women

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
Men	23	2025	63 Moderate
Women	16	2025	63 Moderate

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Year	Men	Women
1994	39	17
1995	39	23
1996	38	31
1997	43	25
1998	31	21
1999	39	21
2000	40	16
2001	37	28
2002	47	17
2003	41	15
2004	32	23
2005	42	23
2006	35	29
2007	34	40
2008	52	29
2009	42	19
2010	41	24
2011	24	21
2012	22	19
2013	37	23
2014	34	20
2015	21	14
2016	23	17
2017	15	12
2018	27	12
2019	28	12
2020	27	17
2021	22	18
2022	26	15
2023	25	11
2024	21	15
2025	23	16

People who died in fires per 100,000 people of the same sex, DSB (1994-2025)

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

Men
Women

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
Men	0.81	2025	63 Moderate
Women	0.57	2025	63 Moderate

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Year	Men	Women
1994	1.82	0.78
1995	1.81	1.04
1996	1.75	1.4
1997	1.97	1.12
1998	1.41	0.94
1999	1.77	0.93
2000	1.8	0.71
2001	1.65	1.23
2002	2.09	0.74
2003	1.81	0.65
2004	1.41	0.99
2005	1.83	0.99
2006	1.51	1.24
2007	1.45	1.69
2008	2.19	1.21
2009	1.74	0.79
2010	1.68	0.98
2011	0.97	0.85
2012	0.87	0.76
2013	1.45	0.91
2014	1.32	0.78
2015	0.8	0.54
2016	0.87	0.65
2017	0.56	0.46
2018	1.01	0.46
2019	1.04	0.45
2020	1	0.64
2021	0.81	0.67
2022	0.94	0.55
2023	0.9	0.4
2024	0.75	0.54
2025	0.81	0.57

Accidental fire deaths, by sex, FHI (count, 1996-2025)

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

Men
Women

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
Men	17	2025	63 Moderate
Women	18	2025	63 Moderate

Show every year as a table

Year	Men	Women
1996	37	30
1997	36	28
1998	30	22
1999	34	20
2000	41	16
2001	32	23
2002	40	19
2003	36	16
2004	33	23
2005	37	24
2006	30	24
2007	28	40
2008	43	25
2009	35	18
2010	32	24
2011	14	22
2012	19	16
2013	35	22
2014	27	21
2015	23	17
2016	20	17
2017	12	8
2018	21	10
2019	20	9
2020	17	12
2021	19	18
2022	18	12
2023	16	12
2024	18	13
2025	17	18

Accidental fire deaths per 100,000 people of the same sex, FHI (1996-2025)

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

Men
Women

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
Men	0.6	2025	63 Moderate
Women	0.65	2025	63 Moderate

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Year	Men	Women
1996	1.71	1.35
1997	1.65	1.26
1998	1.37	0.98
1999	1.54	0.89
2000	1.84	0.71
2001	1.43	1.01
2002	1.78	0.83
2003	1.59	0.69
2004	1.45	0.99
2005	1.61	1.03
2006	1.3	1.02
2007	1.2	1.69
2008	1.81	1.05
2009	1.45	0.74
2010	1.31	0.98
2011	0.56	0.89
2012	0.75	0.64
2013	1.37	0.87
2014	1.05	0.82
2015	0.88	0.66
2016	0.76	0.65
2017	0.45	0.31
2018	0.78	0.38
2019	0.74	0.34
2020	0.63	0.45
2021	0.7	0.67
2022	0.65	0.44
2023	0.58	0.44
2024	0.64	0.47
2025	0.6	0.65

Age-standardised accidental fire death rate per 100,000 (Norwegian standard), by sex, FHI (1996-2025)

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

Both sexes
Men
Women

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
Both sexes	0.62	2025	63 Moderate
Men	0.63	2025	63 Moderate
Women	0.63	2025	63 Moderate

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Year	Both sexes	Men	Women
1996	1.66	2.17	1.35
1997	1.57	1.91	1.19
1998	1.28	1.67	0.96
1999	1.34	2.08	0.91
2000	1.38	2.17	0.7
2001	1.34	1.97	1.06
2002	1.41	2.2	0.8
2003	1.25	1.92	0.67
2004	1.27	1.63	1
2005	1.45	1.97	1.01
2006	1.31	1.57	1.05
2007	1.54	1.36	1.65
2008	1.51	2.25	0.97
2009	1.19	1.71	0.76
2010	1.3	1.66	0.96
2011	0.83	0.68	0.93
2012	0.77	0.92	0.65
2013	1.22	1.59	0.93
2014	1.01	1.26	0.83
2015	0.84	1.04	0.68
2016	0.78	0.84	0.7
2017	0.4	0.53	0.29
2018	0.67	0.92	0.4
2019	0.57	0.82	0.33
2020	0.55	0.64	0.44
2021	0.72	0.73	0.68
2022	0.56	0.73	0.41
2023	0.52	0.61	0.43
2024	0.56	0.68	0.45
2025	0.62	0.63	0.63

Accidental fire deaths, by age, FHI (count, 1996-2025, small cells hidden)

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

0-29 years
30-49 years
50-69 years
70-89 years
90 years and over

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
0-29 years	7	2025	63 Moderate
30-49 years	5	2023	60 Moderate
50-69 years	11	2025	63 Moderate
70-89 years	13	2025	63 Moderate
90 years and over	5	2022	60 Moderate

Show every year as a table

Year	0-29 years	30-49 years	50-69 years	70-89 years	90 years and over
1996	11	15	–	30	–
1997	–	16	12	25	–
1998	–	12	10	21	–
1999	9	11	8	20	6
2000	12	10	14	18	3
2001	11	10	9	21	4
2002	–	18	11	19	–
2003	–	15	17	16	–
2004	6	21	9	17	3
2005	6	9	16	25	5
2006	–	9	15	24	–
2007	15	16	11	23	3
2008	11	–	19	25	–
2009	12	–	13	20	–
2010	–	7	16	26	–
2011	3	4	13	13	3
2012	–	8	13	9	–
2013	–	13	16	19	–
2014	5	8	17	15	3
2015	4	3	19	10	4
2016	–	8	16	12	–
2017	–	4	–	8	–
2018	–	3	9	15	–
2019	–	3	12	10	–
2020	4	–	8	13	–
2021	6	–	12	15	–
2022	3	4	10	8	5
2023	–	5	11	10	–
2024	4	–	9	13	–
2025	7	–	11	13	–

Accidental fire deaths per 100,000 people in the same age group, FHI (1996-2025, small cells hidden)

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

0-29 years
30-49 years
50-69 years
70-89 years
90 years and over

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
0-29 years	0.36	2025	63 Moderate
30-49 years	0.34	2023	60 Moderate
50-69 years	0.8	2025	63 Moderate
70-89 years	1.79	2025	63 Moderate
90 years and over	10.81	2022	60 Moderate

Show every year as a table

Year	0-29 years	30-49 years	50-69 years	70-89 years	90 years and over
1996	0.62	1.18	–	6.11	–
1997	–	1.26	1.43	5.08	–
1998	–	0.94	1.16	4.27	–
1999	0.51	0.85	0.91	4.08	24.21
2000	0.68	0.77	1.55	3.68	11.74
2001	0.62	0.76	0.98	4.31	15.14
2002	–	1.36	1.17	3.92	–
2003	–	1.12	1.77	3.32	–
2004	0.34	1.57	0.92	3.55	10.3
2005	0.34	0.67	1.59	5.26	16.52
2006	–	0.67	1.45	5.07	–
2007	0.84	1.18	1.04	4.87	9.21
2008	0.61	–	1.76	5.3	–
2009	0.65	–	1.18	4.22	–
2010	–	0.51	1.42	5.46	–
2011	0.16	0.29	1.13	2.72	7.67
2012	–	0.57	1.11	1.87	–
2013	–	0.91	1.34	3.87	–
2014	0.26	0.56	1.41	2.97	6.98
2015	0.2	0.21	1.55	1.91	9.15
2016	–	0.56	1.29	2.2	–
2017	–	0.28	–	1.41	–
2018	–	0.21	0.71	2.54	–
2019	–	0.21	0.94	1.64	–
2020	0.2	–	0.62	2.06	–
2021	0.31	–	0.91	2.31	–
2022	0.15	0.27	0.75	1.2	10.81
2023	–	0.34	0.81	1.46	–
2024	0.21	–	0.66	1.84	–
2025	0.36	–	0.8	1.79	–

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

Men
Women

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
Men	50.4	2025	71 Moderate
Women	49.6	2025	71 Moderate

Show every year as a table

Year	Men	Women
1994	49.4	50.6
1995	49.4	50.6
1996	49.4	50.6
1997	49.5	50.5
1998	49.5	50.5
1999	49.5	50.5
2000	49.5	50.5
2001	49.6	50.4
2002	49.6	50.4
2003	49.6	50.4
2004	49.6	50.4
2005	49.6	50.4
2006	49.6	50.4
2007	49.7	50.3
2008	49.9	50.1
2009	49.9	50.1
2010	50	50
2011	50.1	49.9
2012	50.2	49.8
2013	50.2	49.8
2014	50.3	49.7
2015	50.3	49.7
2016	50.4	49.6
2017	50.4	49.6
2018	50.4	49.6
2019	50.4	49.6
2020	50.4	49.6
2021	50.4	49.6
2022	50.4	49.6
2023	50.4	49.6
2024	50.4	49.6
2025	50.4	49.6

Each line is the source that counts most for that group.

0-29 years
30-49 years
50-69 years
70-89 years
90 years and over

Group	Figure	Year	Trust
0-29 years	34.6	2025	71 Moderate
30-49 years	27	2025	71 Moderate
50-69 years	24.6	2025	71 Moderate
70-89 years	13	2025	71 Moderate
90 years and over	0.8	2025	71 Moderate

Show every year as a table

Year	0-29 years	30-49 years	50-69 years	70-89 years	90 years and over
1994	41.2	29	18.1	11.2	0.5
1995	40.9	29	18.3	11.2	0.5
1996	40.6	29	18.7	11.2	0.5
1997	40.3	28.9	19.1	11.2	0.5
1998	40	28.9	19.4	11.1	0.5
1999	39.7	29	19.8	11	0.6
2000	39.4	29.1	20.1	10.9	0.6
2001	39.1	29.1	20.3	10.8	0.6
2002	38.8	29.2	20.7	10.7	0.6
2003	38.6	29.2	21	10.5	0.6
2004	38.4	29.2	21.4	10.4	0.6
2005	38.2	29.1	21.8	10.3	0.7
2006	38.1	28.9	22.2	10.2	0.7
2007	38.1	28.8	22.5	10	0.7
2008	38.1	28.6	22.7	9.9	0.7
2009	38.1	28.5	22.9	9.8	0.7
2010	38.1	28.3	23.1	9.7	0.8
2011	38.1	28.2	23.2	9.7	0.8
2012	38.1	28.1	23.4	9.6	0.8
2013	38	28	23.5	9.7	0.8
2014	37.9	27.9	23.5	9.8	0.8
2015	37.8	27.7	23.6	10.1	0.8
2016	37.6	27.5	23.6	10.4	0.8
2017	37.4	27.3	23.6	10.8	0.8
2018	37.1	27.2	23.7	11.1	0.8
2019	36.7	27.1	23.9	11.4	0.8
2020	36.3	27.1	24.1	11.7	0.8
2021	35.9	27	24.3	12	0.9
2022	35.5	27	24.4	12.2	0.8
2023	35.3	27	24.5	12.4	0.8
2024	34.9	27	24.5	12.7	0.8
2025	34.6	27	24.6	13	0.8

About this data

Every source on this page (7)

Who is behind the sources

57% Health agency
26% Statistics office
17% Other government body
International body: shown, not counted

Each publisher, its funding and its own description

Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) · Health agencyFunding: Norwegian state budget, through allocation letters from the Ministry of Health and Care Services. sourceIn its own words: “Vårt samfunnsoppdrag er å produsere, oppsummere og kommunisere kunnskap for å bidra til godt folkehelsearbeid og gode helse- og omsorgstjenester.” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
Statistics Norway (SSB) · Statistics officeFunding: Norwegian state budget. sourceIn its own words: “Statistics Norway is the national statistical institute of Norway and the main producer of official statistics.” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB) · Other government bodyFunding: Norwegian state budget; DSB is a government directorate. sourceIn its own words: “DSB's overall task is maintaining a complete overview of various risks and vulnerability in general.” source, retrieved 2026-11-02
World Health Organization (WHO) · International body, shown but not counted hereFunding: Assessed contributions (membership dues) from member states, plus voluntary contributions from member states and other partners. sourceIn its own words: “…WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health…” source, retrieved 2026-10-27

FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D8a_ulykker: "Brann"Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) (health agency) · Death and health registersUsed for 10 numbers; counts toward 10. Years 2022 to 2025. Retrieved 2026-11-02.Data (API)
SSB, population by sex and one-year age (table 07459)Statistics Norway (SSB) (statistics office) · Population registerUsed for 7 numbers; counts toward 7. Years 2025. Retrieved 2026-11-02.Open the publisher's page
DSB, statistics on people who died in fires (Omkomne i brann)Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB) (other government body) · Administrative recordsUsed for 6 numbers; counts toward 6. Years 2025. Retrieved 2026-11-02.Open the publisher's page
FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D8b_ulykker: "Brann"Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) (health agency) · Death and health registersUsed for 6 numbers; counts toward 6. Years 2025. Retrieved 2026-11-02.Data (API)
FHI, Cause of Death Registry (Dødsårsaksregisteret), table D8c_ulykker_rater: "Brann"Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) (health agency) · Death and health registersUsed for 3 numbers; counts toward 3. Years 2025. Retrieved 2026-11-02.Data (API)
SSB, population 1 January (table 06913)Statistics Norway (SSB) (statistics office) · Population registerUsed for 1 number; counts toward 1. Years 2025. Retrieved 2026-11-02.Open the publisher's page
WHO Mortality Database, smoke, fire and flames, NorwayWorld Health Organization (WHO) (international body) · Death and health registersUsed for 2 numbers; counts toward 0 (shown only). Years 2024. Retrieved 2026-10-25.Not counted where: it republishes FHI.Open the publisher's page

Why the numbers differ (9)

Who is counted: DSB counts everyone who dies in a fire in Norway, resident or not; FHI counts people resident in Norway, including those who die abroad, though it lacks the cause for most deaths abroad. Of the 387 people RISE traced from DSB's list for 2005-2014, 13 were foreigners without a Norwegian ID number. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
What counts as a fire death: DSB goes by the event, a person who dies from burns or smoke because of a fire. FHI goes by the underlying cause on the death certificate. RISE matched 362 people from DSB's 2005-2014 list to the register: 88.4% had a fire code as underlying cause, 5.8% were coded as intentional self-harm, and others had codes such as heart disease or poisoning (PDF pp. 48-49, Table 4-11). (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
ICD-10 puts transport accidents (V01-V99) and arson (X97) outside X00-X09, so FHI's group leaves them out. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
DSB counted 6 people who died in a fire after a helicopter crash in 2019. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Intent: WHO's file of the same register lists 6 deaths in 2024 coded X76, X97 or Y26 (self-harm, assault or undetermined intent by smoke, fire and flames). None is in FHI's group. The gap between DSB and FHI that year was 5, but the two lists are not matched person by person, so this does not prove these are the same deaths. (source, retrieved 2026-10-25)
Deaths after the fire and year of death: DSB counts a death only within three months of the fire; FHI has no such limit, puts a death in the year the person died, and has a separate group for late effects of accidents (Y85-Y86). DSB's page does not say which year it uses when a fire and a death fall in different years. In RISE's selected 2015-2020 sample of 163 people who died in building fires, 150 died the same or the next day, 8 died later and 5 have no known date of death (PDF p. 45). (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Autopsies: a person found dead in a fire enters DSB's list at once, and police do not automatically report autopsy results to DSB, so someone later found to have died before the fire can stay listed (PDF p. 14). FHI uses autopsy results when it codes the cause. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
RISE left 4 of the 391 people in the police reports it read for 2005-2014 out of its study: it describes them as dead before the fire started (PDF p. 25) and as cases of gas poisoning or burns with no fire (PDF p. 22). (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
DSB's count was higher than FHI's in 26 of the 30 years both cover (1996-2025), by 5.8 deaths a year on average. No published table reconciles the two: RISE was asked to compare them and decided against it because a search of the register by cause could not separate fire deaths from other deaths with the same codes (PDF p. 25). Calculated from the DSB and FHI series on this page. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)

Common mistakes (4)

Reading DSB's running total as a full year: its 30 for 2026 stops at 30 October 2026. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Adding DSB and FHI together: they record many of the same deaths, so the two counts overlap. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Reading a hidden age cell in FHI's table as zero: ":" means FHI hid a small count, not that nobody died. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Treating one year's move as a trend: the counts are small enough that one fire with several deaths shows in the yearly figure. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)

Context (3)

DSB: nearly nine of ten people who die in fires die in a dwelling. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
DSB: there has been no fire with many deaths in a specially regulated building since 14 people died at Hotel Caledonien in 1986. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
Some deaths at fires are recorded as intentional self-harm. A directory of crisis centres and helplines is kept by the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Retrieved 2026-11-02.

Sources considered and not used (3)

DSB report on fire deaths 1986-2009 (Kjennetegn og utviklingstrekk ved dødsbranner og omkomne i brann): Would carry DSB's count back before 1994, but dsb.no answered with a server error (HTTP 502) on each attempt on 2 November 2026, in Bokmål and Nynorsk, so its tables could not be read. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Brannstatistikk.no (DSB): A search application for fire service call-outs with no published file on its page. DSB's own page gives the yearly fire deaths used here. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
CTIF World Fire Statistics: Collects figures from national fire services, and DSB is the national source used here directly. CTIF's Norway figures are on the page comparing countries. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)

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