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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightningCrash" data-source="post: 2370999" data-attributes="member: 4278">Found this information on a cost-benefit analysis of residential sprinklers: "In Scottsdale, 49 fires were reported in single-family homes that were equipped with sprinklers in the 15 years after legislation was implemented. In addition, over an eight-year period in Prince George's County, there were 117 fire incidents in households that resulted in sprinkler activation. In both jurisdictions, no fire deaths were experienced in homes protected with automatic sprinklers.[...]Moreover, in Scottsdale, it was estimated that fires in homes protected with sprinklers had an average property loss equal to $2,166. In residences without sprinkler protection, the average property loss was equal to $45,019.3 Similarly in Prince George's County, when compared to a random sample of structural fires that occurred in unsprinklered single-family homes over a two-year period before the sprinkler ordinance was adopted, the average estimated property loss was $31,667. Conversely, the estimated fire loss was $3,673 for sprinklered homes after the sprinkler ordinance was adopted."Now I think this was from a pro-fire sprinkler site, so I am curious what the other side of the aisle is on this? What are they missing here?</blockquote>