This is the list of the main fires in homes that have occurred in the United States, since 2002:
October 17, 2003: Six people are killed and 15 others injured in the fire at a 35-story local government skyscraper employing 2,500 people in Chicago, Illinois.
April 3, 2008: 10 people, including seven teenagers and two children, members of the same family, are killed when a fire ripped through their two-story single-family home in Brockway, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
December 28, 2014: Six people are killed and 10 injured in the Wedgwood apartment building fire, where elderly people resided, in the Castle Hills neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas.
March 21, 2015: Seven brothers, ages 5 to 16, members of an Orthodox Jewish family, die in Brooklyn, New York. Only the mother and one of her 15-year-old daughters survived by jumping from a second-story window in Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood when an electric hob failed and started a fire that quickly spread through the home.
28 December 2017: 12 people, including four minors, are killed in the fire in a five-story apartment building in Bronx, New York. The flames were started by a boy who was playing with a kitchen.
Philadelphia fire kills at least 13, including seven children
August 26, 2018: Eight people, six of them children, die in the fire that affected at least two three-story buildings in the Hispanic neighborhood of La Villita, in Chicago, Illinois.
May 8, 2019: Six people, four children between the ages of 3 and 11 and two adults, die in a fire registered in an apartment in the New York neighborhood of Harlem.
December 21, 2019: Six people are killed in a small apartment building fire in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apparently it could be due to the use of kitchen burners that were used as heaters as some of the homes did not have heating.