The March Fire Loss
The losses by fires during the month of March in the United States and Canada, as compiled from carefully kept records, reached the sum of $17,523,000, a large reduction from the losses in March, 1916, which amounted to $38,680,250, which included conflagrations in three Southern cities. In the following table is a comparison of the losses for March, 1917, with those of the two preceding years, and giving the monthly fire loss record for the balance of 1915 and 1916:
The March Fire Loss
The fire loss of the United States and Canada during March. 1914, as compiled by “The Journal of Commerce” shows a total of $25,512.750, or an increase of almost 50 per cent, over the record of the same month in the preceding year. The following table gives a comparison of the losses by months this year.
There were no less than 323 fires during the month of March, each causing an estimated property damage of $10,000 or over. Of the thirty fires estimated as causing over $200,000 each the following are the more important ones:
