“174,000 is 476 vehicle fires per day all year long”
With close to 300,000,000 ICE vehicles
operating on America’s roads, the number
you quote is a pretty low percentage.
The majority of ICE vehicle fires are
caused from vehicle crashes and an
exploding battery, or direct shorting
and sparks catching fuel leaks on fire.
Somewhere on this thread I linked a place where the
numbers of fires per 100,000 sold vehicles was provided.
That took care of the lopsided numbers.