List of high-rise façade fires

This is a list of high-rise building fires where the flames were seen to involve the façade.

Notable 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.

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 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 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 161[95]  79 32
Total 375 733

Plot showing the number of large façade fires worldwide every five years from 1990 to November 2019. Data found from news articles and online.[96][97]

See also

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