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

The original dataset used to create this list 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.

Index Date Building City Country Images Deaths Injuries Number of floors affected by fire
1 January 10, 1990 393 Kennedy St Winnipeg Canada n/a n/a n/a 4
2 January 1, 1991 Mercantile Credit Building Basingstoke UK n/a n/a n/a 3
3 April 5, 1991 Knowsley Heights Liverpool UK 0 0 n/a
4 September 6, 1993 Sun Valley Poultry Factory Hereford UK 2 n/a n/a
5 April 11, 1996 Düsseldorf Airport fire Düsseldorf Germany n/a 17 62-88 n/a
6 October 28, 1996 Motomachi Apartments Hiroshima Japan n/a 0 2 12
7 September 30, 1997 Eldorado Hotel Reno USA n/a 0 0 n/a
8 June 20, 1998 Palace Station Hotel and Casino Las Vegas, USA n/a 0 0 n/a
9 June 11, 1999 Garnock Court fire Irvine Scotland n/a 1 4 7
10 June 2, 2002 Tip Top Bakery Fairfield Australia n/a 0 1 n/a
11 July 29, 2003 Telstar House London UK n/a 0 3 4
12 October 17, 2004 Parque Central Complex Caracas Venezuela 0 25 17
13 February 12, 2005 Windsor Tower (Madrid) Madrid Spain 0 7 32
14 April 21, 2005 Treskowstrasse Pankow Flats Berlin Germany n/a 2 3 5
15 September 23, 2007 Water Club Tower, Borgata Casino Hotel Atlantic City USA n/a n/a n/a 39
16 January 25, 2008 MGM Monte Carlo Hotel Las Vegas USA n/a n/a 4
17 May 9, 2008 De Punt fire De Punt Netherlands 3 o n/a
18 February 9, 2009 Beijing Television Cultural Center fire Beijing China 1 7 44
19 July 3, 2009 Lakanal House fire London UK n/a 6 20 n/a
20 August 15, 2009 Kozepszer Street Flats Miskolc Hungary n/a 3 n/a 6
21 July 6, 2010 Al Kuwait Tower Sharjah UAE n/a n/a n/a 10
22 September 1, 2010 Wooshin Golden Suites fire Busan South Korea 0 5 35
23 November 14, 2010 4 Rue du Lac Flats Dijon France n/a 7 11 n/a
24 November 15, 2010 Jiaozhou Road Shanghai China 58 71 28
25 February 3, 2011 Royal Wanxin Hotel Shenyang China n/a n/a n/a n/a
26 January 18, 2012 Al Baker Tower Sharjah UAE n/a n/a n/a n/a
27 April 28, 2012 Al Tayer Tower Sharjah UAE n/a 0 0 n/a
28 May 14, 2012 Mermoz Tower Roubaix France n/a 1 6 17
29 July 17, 2012 Polat Tower Istanbul Turkey n/a 0 0 n/a
30 October 6, 2012 Saif Belhasa Building Dubai UAE n/a 0 2+ 9
31 November 18, 2012 Tamweel Tower Dubai UAE n/a 0 0 n/a
32 April 3, 2013 Grozny-City Towers Chechnya Russia n/a 0 0 40
33 April 22, 2013 Al Hafeet Tower 2 Sharjah UAE n/a 0 n/a 10
34 September 21, 2014 Krasnoyarsk Apartments Krasnoyarsk Russia n/a 0 n/a 25
35 November 25, 2014 Lacrosse Building Melbourne Australia n/a 0 0 16
36 February 21, 2015 The Marina Torch Dubai UAE n/a 0 7 60
37 May 19, 2015 Baku Residential Flats Baku Azerbaijan 16 63 n/a
38 October 1, 2015 Al Nasser Tower Sharjah UAE n/a 0 40 26
39 December 31, 2015 Address Downtown Hotel Dubai UAE n/a 0 15 n/a
40 March 28, 2016 Ajman One Complex Ajman UAE n/a 0 n/a n/a
41 July 20, 2016 Sulafa Tower Dubai UAE n/a 0 n/a 30
43 August 19, 2016 Shepherds Court London UK n/a 0 1 3
44 November 9, 2016 Neo Soho Project Jakarta Indonesia n/a 0 0 7
45 December 1, 2016 Al Bandary Tower B Sharjah UAE n/a 0 4 n/a
46 December 13, 2016 Oceana Adriatic Building Dubai UAE n/a 0 0 n/a
42 May 3, 2016 Longsheng Building Nanjing China n/a 0 0 n/a
47 March 2, 2017 Address Residences Fountain Views Dubai UAE n/a 0 0 3
48 June 14, 2017 Grenfell Tower fire London UK 72 70 24
49 August 4, 2017 The Marina Torch Dubai UAE n/a 0 0 64/87
50 February 1, 2018 Yuansheng International Zhengzhou China n/a 0 n/a 20
51 April 5, 2018 Taksim Ilk Yardim Hospital Istanbul Turkey n/a 0 0 14
52 May 15, 2018 Zen Tower Dubai UAE n/a 0 0 15
53 February 4, 2019 Neo 200 Melbourne Australia n/a 0 0 6
54 March 14, 2019 Kaifeng Apartments Kaifeng China n/a 0 n/a 17
55 May 27, 2019 Golden Eagle Shopping Mall Nanjing China n/a 0 0 1
56 May 29, 2019 Commercial Building Luoyang China n/a 0 0 n/a
57 August 14, 2019 Residential Flats Warsaw Poland n/a n/a n/a 10
58 November 16, 2019 The Cube Student Housing Bolton UK n/a 0 2 1
59 May 5, 2020 Abbco Tower Sharjah UAE n/a 0 12 48
60 July 27, 2020 Business Centre Ankara Turkey n/a 0 n/a n/a
61 August 29, 2020 Madrid Tower Block Madrid Spain n/a 0 n/a 3
62 October 8, 2020 Apartment Block Ulsan South Korea n/a 0 91 33
63 March 9, 2021 Apartment Building Shijiazhuang China n/a 0 0 26
64 August 29, 2021 Torre dei Moro fire Milan Italy n/a 0 0 20
65 November 7, 2022 Apartment Building Dubai UAE n/a 0 0 35
66 February 22, 2024 2024 València residential complex fire València Spain 10 15 14

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

Updated on 08/2020, after Bonner et al., 2020.

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