7500 fires per year

Invisible fire hazards and what we can do

The most frequent fires are still in the kitchen.

(Bild: FF Bad Goisern)

On average, there are 7500 fires in Austrian homes every year! But where are the life-threatening, invisible fire hazards lurking? An expert in property protection has a few valuable tips and how we can protect our children in particular.

"We feel particularly comfortable at home, but in our familiar surroundings we are quicker to become careless," says Armin Kaltenegger, Head of Property Protection at the Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV). 7500 fires occur in domestic households every year. In 2023, there were 606 in Styria (the figures for 2024 are not yet available); the damage amounted to almost 25 million euros.