Additional Facts & Information - Just for Renters

Did you know .

• A landlord's insurance policy generally doesn't cover your personal possessions or protect them from liability, according to the Independent Insurance Agents of America.
  
  
• The chance of fire increases during cold weather months (December - February).

• An April 1998 report by the U.S. Fire Administration indicates that because people spend more time indoors during colder weather, there is a greater chance that a fire will occur due to increased indoor activities such as cooking and the use of heating equipment.

• According to the U.S. Fire Administration, 29% of all home fires start in the kitchen.

• Unattended cooking causes the majority of these kitchen fires.

• According to the U.S. Fire Administration, direct property losses due to fire exceed $9 billion a year.

• About 2 million fires are reported each year. There are many more fires that go unreported.

• The U.S. Fire Administration reports that a fire occurs in a home every ten seconds, and every 60 seconds a fire occurs that is serious enough to call the fire department.

• 1999 National Fire Protection Association data indicates that in 1998 approximately 517,500 fires occurred in structures.

• 86,500 of them occurred in apartments
• $631,000,000 in property damage from fire occurred in apartments.

• The 1998 Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics indicates that in 1997 there were 1,763,253 residential burglaries reported to police.

• 1997 FBI Uniform Crime Reports data indicates that from 1993 - 1997 the greatest number of burglaries occurred in the months of July and August.

• 52% of these burglaries happened during daytime hours and 48% happened at night.
• Two out of three burglaries were residential.
• 60% of these residential burglaries occurred during daytime hours.

• 1997 FBI Uniform Crime Reports data indicates that losses due to burglary were approximately $3.3 billion.

• The average dollar loss was $1,391 per residential burglary.

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