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Published : 10 Feb 2026, 11:50 PM
Bangladesh recorded 27,059 fire incidents in 2025, leaving 85 people dead and 267 injured, according to the Fire Service and Civil Defence.
On average, 75 fires broke out daily.
Electrical faults, burning cigarette butts, stoves and gas leaks were the leading causes.
A statement on Tuesday said the blazes caused losses worth nearly Tk 5.7 billion, while fire crews saved property valued at Tk 32.64 billion.
Three firefighters died and 17 were injured during operations.
Statistics show electrical faults triggered 9,392 incidents or 34.71 percent of the total.
Fires caused by burning cigarette butts followed with 4,269 incidents, or 15.78 percent.
Other major causes included cooking stoves (2,909 incidents), gas cylinder leaks (920), gas supply line leaks (562), gas cylinder explosions (121), chemical accidents (38), children playing with fire (608), hot ashes (356), mosquito coils (493) and fireworks or sky lanterns (109).
Residential buildings saw the highest number of fires -- 8,705 incidents, or 32.2 percent of the total.
Other hotspots included haystacks (3,922), shops (1,800), markets (1,067), shopping malls (617), garment factories (665), non-garment factories (615), gas cylinder shops (483), power substations (122), high-rise buildings above six storeys (71), restaurants and hotels (155), government offices (152), government hospitals (34), private hospitals (25), diagnostic centres (72), jute warehouses and mills (122), chemical warehouses or shops (36), slums (91), mosques (25), temples (9), educational institutions (123) and air conditioners (62).
Transport fires included 153 buses, 216 other vehicles, 10 trains, four launches, two ships and one training aircraft.
The Fire Service also responded to 7,815 road accidents last year, including 1,239 bus crashes, 1,089 truck accidents and 1,732 motorcycle crashes.
Bus accidents killed 289 people and injured 1,934, while motorcycle crashes left 193 dead and 2,190 injured.
Under its fire safety survey, the agency inspected 10,533 buildings nationwide, identifying 3,316 as “risky”, 622 as “highly risky” and 6,595 as “satisfactory”.
