What is the leading cause of fire in the home?

Answer 1

flames

Answer 2

Sheer carelessness. Chip pan fires are the leading cause in the UK and make things a whole lot worse when they think the best way of getting rid of fire in a hot pan is to pour water in it.

Answer 3

I guess that depends on where you live. I've heard that in England, for example, the leading cause is chip pan fries catching on fire. Otherwise, I'm going to venture a guess & say faulty electrical wiring or falling asleep while smoking.

Answer 4

The leading cause of fires is overloaded circuits--in the form of outlets being overloaded, too much on a circuit breaker or fuse, or cutting into a neighbor's line to share electricity when their's is cut off.

Answer 5

The use of supplemental room heaters, such as wood and coal burning stoves, kerosene heaters, gas space heaters and electrical heaters are the leading cause of fires in U. S. homes.

Answer 6

leading cause of fire is of someone smoking in a house by flammable stuff. sometimes fires happen because of flammable objects such as axe body spray,tag body spray, or other kinds of sprays withchemicals in them.

Answer 7

I believe the cause could be many reasons:Example:
Dust mites
faulty electric wires
General poor maintenance of the home itself.

Answer 8

Electrical.

Answer 9

Cooking accidents http://www.nfpa.org/newsReleaseDetails.asp?categoryid=1399&itemId=18832&cookie%5Ftest=1

Answer 10

the leading cause is cooking for obvious reasons

Answer 11

The clothes dryer