Fire disasters involving barricaded escape routes

On 1 January 2026 at 01:26 (CET), during New Year celebrations, a fire broke out at Le Constellation bar in the ski-resort town of Crans-Montana, Valais, Switzerland. Forty-one people died in the fire, and 115 others were injured, with 83 initially being treated for severe burns. Intensive care units in Valais reached capacity, and victims were transported to hospitals in other parts of Switzerland and to other European countries. A national day of mourning was observed on 9 January 2026 in memory of the victims.

2025 fire in North Macedonia

deadly blaze in Johannesburg, South Africa

fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya Mall in the Russian city of Kemerovo on March 2018, killed officially at least 64 people, mostly children

1911 factory fire in New York City

Massacre

2013 fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history

Disaster in Bradford, England, UK, on 11 May 1985

high-rise fire in Xinjiang, China

Paraguayan national tragedy

1942 nightclub fire in Boston, Massachusetts

On the evening of February 20, 2003, a fire occurred at The Station, a nightclub and music venue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert by the rock band Jack Russell's Great White, an offshoot of the original Great White band, a pyrotechnic display ignited flammable acoustic foam in the walls and ceilings surrounding the stage. Within six minutes, the entire building was engulfed in flames. The fire remains the deadliest firework accident in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. It was also the second-deadliest nightclub fire in New England, behind the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire.

1996 aircraft accident in Illinois, United States

Fire at a residential building in Kuwait

1400–1401 siege during the conquests of Tamerlane

2009 nightclub fire in Perm, Perm Krai, Russia

Hong Kong disaster

fatal industrial accident

deadly 2004 fire in Buenos Aires

conflagration

2009 fire in Thailand

deadly fire in a Karamay theater, Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, western China

1998 arson attack in Gothenburg, Sweden

1996 fire in Quezon City, Philippines

arson attack on a gay bar in New Orleans

2001 fire in Volendam, Netherlands

1983 movie theatre fire in Turin, Italy

the third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history

arson that resulted in 41 deaths in San José Pinula, Guatemala

deadly fire in night club

Fire in 2009, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

1944 fire disaster in Hartford, Connecticut

Chinese industrial accident

Terrorist attack

Fire disaster

industrial accident

1990 arson fire in Bronx, New York

2000 fire in Luoyang, China

1993 factory fire in Thailand

Amusement centre fire tragedy

2012 industrial disasters in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan