Keep Your Community Cooking Safely

People in the United States are most likely to experience a fire in their home than anywhere else. Cooking is the leading cause of home fires. Almost half (44%) of reported home fires started in the kitchen. NFPA provides these tools to help you launch a cooking safely campaign in your community. 

Resources for families

• Cooking safety checklist (PDF)

• Cooking safety tip sheet in English (PDF) Spanish (PDF) and German (PDF)

• How to prevent cooking fires and related injuries (PPT)
• Easy-to-read handout: Be fire-safe in the kitchen (PDF)
• Spanish easy-to-read handout: Esté a Salvo contra Incendios en la Cocina (PDF)
• U.S. Fire Administration's instructor's guide "How to prevent Cooking fire and related injuries" (PDF)

Talking about cooking safety

• Cooking fire facts (PDF)
  Statistics and information about this important safety topic.
• Cooking safety talking points (PDF)
  Whether you're talking to the media or your neighbors, here are some talking points to help you stay on point. 
• Cooking safety: Community outreach ideas (PDF)
  Your neighbors are your best resource to help spread heating safety messages.

Free resources

Cooking safety tip sheet

Did you know that cooking fires are the #1 cause of home fires and home injuries? Follow a few safety tips to prevent these fires.

Download our safety tip sheet.

Easy-to-read handout

For both children and adults, this piece uses many illustrations and easy-to-read language safety messages to prevent the most common kitchen fires.

Download our easy-to-read handout.

Easy-to-read handouts in different languages

• Arabic (PDF) 
• Bengali (PDF)
• English (PDF)
• English African (PDF) 
• English Asian (PDF) 
• English Latino (PDF) 
• Farsi (PDF) 
• French African (PDF) 
• Indonesian (PDF) 
• Korean (PDF) 
• Portuguese (PDF)
  
• S'gaw Karen (PDF)
• Simplified Chinese (PDF) 
• Spanish (PDF, 504 KB) 
• Traditional Chinese (PDF) 
• Vietnamese (PDF)

Reports and fact sheets

• "Home Cooking Fires" report
• Fact sheet on microwave ovens
• Fact sheet on grilling safety

Customize these resources and work with local media to help spread the word about home cooking safety.

• Fill-in-the-blank news releases
  • (City/Town) Fire Department Wants You to Stand By Your Pan (docx)
  • (City/Town) Fire Department to Share Cooking Safety Tips (docx)
• Fill-in-the-blank Op/Eds
  • Burn prevention (docx)
  • Grilling (docx)
  • Microwaves (docx)
  • Turkey fryers (docx)
• Fill-in-the-blank letters to the editor
  • Cooking safety (docx)
  • Response to local fire caused by cooking (docx)

NFPA's Lisa Braxton demonstrates how to stay safe when you're cooking.

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Prevent Fire In Your Home Booklet

The NFPA photo-filled Prevent Fire In Your Home Booklet gives families the big picture on saving lives from fire!

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