Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — Fire Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Fire Statistics.

Already, according to the Insurance Chronicle’s valuable statistics, the fire record of the United States and Canada for this year (leaving out St. John) shows 1,200 more fires than in the first six months of 1876, with nearly $2,000,000 increase in the aggregate loss, or, including the St. John fire, nearer $20,000,000 increase. The actual figures are as follows for the first six months of 1876 and 1877, respectively: 1876. 1877. Aggregate 1055e5536,721,100 $38,273,600 Insurance loss.. 20,357,100 21,993,100 Number of fires, 4,103 5,328 And this does not include the St. John fire, whose statistics cannot yet be accurately given, but have been estimated as high as $20,000,000, with an insurance loss of $6,000,000 to $7,500,000. Figuring up this basis, there has burned up in the United States and Canada, since January, $56,000,000 worth of property, as against $38,000,000 during the corresponding period of last year. And the insurance capital, permanently invested in all this ash heap, amounts to little less than $30,000,000 ! Obviously, the outlook is not a cheerful one for fire insurance companies,