List of high-rise façade fires

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.

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Date	Building	City	Country	Images	Deaths	Injuries	Number of floors affected by fire
January 10, 1990	393 Kennedy St[2]	Winnipeg	Canada		0	0	4
January 1, 1991	Mercantile Credit Building[3]	Basingstoke	UK		0	0	3
April 5, 1991	Knowsley Heights[2][4]	Liverpool	UK		0	0	1
September 6, 1993	Sun Valley Poultry Factory[5]	Hereford	UK		2	0	1
April 11, 1996	Düsseldorf Airport fire	Düsseldorf	Germany		17	62-88	1
October 28, 1996	Motomachi Apartments[2][6]	Hiroshima	Japan		0	2	12
September 30, 1997	Eldorado Hotel[2][7]	Reno	USA		0	0	1
June 20, 1998	Palace Station Hotel and Casino[2]	Las Vegas,	USA		0	0	1
June 11, 1999	Garnock Court fire[2][8][9][10]	Irvine	Scotland		1	4	7
June 2, 2002	Tip Top Bakery[2][11]	Fairfield	Australia		0	1	1
July 29, 2003	Telstar House[12]	London	UK		0	3	4
October 17, 2004	Parque Central Complex[13]	Caracas	Venezuela		0	25	17
February 12, 2005	Windsor Tower (Madrid)[14]	Madrid	Spain		0	7	32
April 21, 2005	Treskowstrasse Pankow Flats[2]	Berlin	Germany		2	3	5
September 23, 2007	Water Club Tower, Borgata Casino Hotel[2]	Atlantic City	USA		0	0	39
January 25, 2008	MGM Monte Carlo Hotel[2][15]	Las Vegas	USA		0	0	4
May 9, 2008	De Punt fire	De Punt	Netherlands		3	0	1
February 9, 2009	Beijing Television Cultural Center fire[2]	Beijing	China		1	7	44
July 3, 2009	Lakanal House fire[16][17]	London	UK		6	20	0
August 15, 2009	Kozepszer Street Flats[2]	Miskolc	Hungary		3	0	6
July 6, 2010	Al Kuwait Tower[18][19]	Sharjah	UAE		0	0	10
September 1, 2010	Wooshin Golden Suites fire[2][20]	Busan	South Korea		0	5	35
November 14, 2010	4 Rue du Lac Flats[2][21]	Dijon	France		7	11	1
November 15, 2010	Jiaozhou Road[22][23]	Shanghai	China		58	71	28
February 3, 2011	Royal Wanxin Hotel[24][25]	Shenyang	China		0	0	1
January 18, 2012	Al Baker Tower[26][27]	Sharjah	UAE		0	0	1
April 28, 2012	Al Tayer Tower[2][28]	Sharjah	UAE		0	0	1
May 14, 2012	Mermoz Tower[2]	Roubaix	France		1	6	17
July 17, 2012	Polat Tower[29][30]	Istanbul	Turkey		0	0	1
October 6, 2012	Saif Belhasa Building[2][31]	Dubai	UAE		0	2+	9
November 18, 2012	Tamweel Tower[2][32][33]	Dubai	UAE		0	0	1
April 3, 2013	Grozny-City Towers[2][34]	Chechnya	Russia		0	0	40
April 22, 2013	Al Hafeet Tower 2[35]	Sharjah	UAE		0	0	10
September 21, 2014	Krasnoyarsk Apartments[36]	Krasnoyarsk	Russia		0	0	25
November 25, 2014	Lacrosse Building[37][38]	Melbourne	Australia		0	0	16
February 21, 2015	The Marina Torch[39]	Dubai	UAE		0	7	60
March 17, 2015	The Franklin Tower[40]	Paris	France		0	0	2
May 19, 2015	Baku Residential Flats[41][42]	Baku	Azerbaijan		16	63	1
October 1, 2015	Al Nasser Tower[43][44]	Sharjah	UAE		0	40	26
December 31, 2015	Address Downtown Hotel[45][46]	Dubai	UAE		0	15	1
March 28, 2016	Ajman One Complex[47][48]	Ajman	UAE		0	0	1
July 20, 2016	Sulafa Tower[49]	Dubai	UAE		0	0	30
August 19, 2016	Shepherds Court[50][51][52]	London	UK		0	1	3
November 9, 2016	Neo Soho Project[53][54]	Jakarta	Indonesia		0	0	7
December 1, 2016	Al Bandary Tower B[55]	Sharjah	UAE		0	4	1
December 13, 2016	Oceana Adriatic Building[56]	Dubai	UAE		0	0	1
May 3, 2016	Longsheng Building[57]	Nanjing	China		0	0	1
March 2, 2017	Address Residences Fountain Views[58][59]	Dubai	UAE		0	0	3
June 14, 2017	Grenfell Tower fire[60][61]	London	UK		72	70	24
August 4, 2017	The Marina Torch[62][63]	Dubai	UAE		0	0	64/87
February 1, 2018	Yuansheng International[64][65]	Zhengzhou	China		0	0	20
April 5, 2018	Taksim Ilk Yardim Hospital[66]	Istanbul	Turkey		0	0	14
May 15, 2018	Zen Tower[67][68]	Dubai	UAE		0	0	15
January 12, 2019	The Boulangerie Hubert (later renamed the Mumbai Cafe)[2]	Paris	France		4	47	1st of 7
February 4, 2019	Neo 200[69][70]	Melbourne	Australia		0	0	6
February 5, 2019	17 bis rue Erlanger, The drunk lady fire	16th District, Paris	France		10	36	3rd through 9th
March 14, 2019	Kaifeng Apartments[citation needed]	Kaifeng	China		0	0	17
May 27, 2019	Golden Eagle Shopping Mall[71]	Nanjing	China		0	0	1
May 29, 2019	Commercial Building[72]	Luoyang	China		0	0	1
August 14, 2019	Residential Flats[73]	Warsaw	Poland		0	0	10
November 14, 2019	Seine Tower[2]	Paris	France		0	2	1
November 16, 2019	The Cube Student Housing[74][75][76]	Bolton	UK		0	2	1
May 5, 2020	Abbco Tower[77][78]	Sharjah	UAE		0	12	48
July 27, 2020	Business Centre[79]	Ankara	Turkey		0	0	1
August 29, 2020	Madrid Tower Block[80]	Madrid	Spain		0	0	3
October 8, 2020	Apartment Block[81]	Ulsan	South Korea		0	91	33
March 9, 2021	Apartment Building[citation needed]	Shijiazhuang	China		0	0	26
August 29, 2021	Torre dei Moro fire[82]	Milan	Italy		0	0	20
September 21, 2023	The Kimpton Hotel,[83][84] formerly the Mariner's Club (Tsim Sha Tsui)	Hong Kong	China		0	0	48
September 16, 2022	Lotus Garden China Telecom Building	Changsha, Hunan	China		0	0	42
November 7, 2022	Apartment Building[85]	Dubai	UAE		0	0	35
March 2, 2023	The 2nd green mesh fire at the Kimpton Hotel,[86] formerly the Mariner's Club (Tsim Sha Tsui)	Hong Kong	China		0	2	48
February 22, 2024	2024 València residential complex fire[87]	València	Spain		10	15	14
April 7, 2024	146 rue de Charonne fire[88]	Paris	France		3	0	7th of 12
17 September 2024	Asia of Ivry (fr, Asie d'Ivry) Wholesaler Chinese Pastry, 50 Av. de la Prte d'Ivry[89]	Paris	France		0	2	7th (attic)
December 13, 2024	26 Avenue d'Iéna[90]	Paris	France		0	0	7th
December 24, 2024	GMF Assurances, 1 rue de la Pépinière[91][92][2]	Paris	France		0	1	Top flr
January 27, 2025	The 12th District Town Hall[93]	Paris	France		0	0	Top flrs
October 18, 2025	Chinachem Tower[94]	Central, Hong Kong	China		0	4	25
November 26, 2025	Wang Fuk Court fire	Hong Kong	China		168[95][96]	79	32
Total					375	733

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Plot showing the number of large façade fires worldwide every five years from 1990 to November 2019. Data found from news articles and online.^[97][98]

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