# 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 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.