Isn’t water damage from sprinklers worse than fire damage?
A sprinkler head flows 10-26 gallons of water per minute. The property loss in a sprinklered home fire is a small fraction of the typical loss in an unsprinklered home fire. In Scottsdale Arizona, where sprinklers have been required in all new homes for over 20 years, the average property fire loss was over $45,000 for single family homes without fire sprinklers compared to under $2,200 when sprinklers were present. In addition, residential fire sprinklers use up to 15 times less water than the fire department uses to extinguish a house fire.

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1. I have smoke alarms installed in my home; why do I need fire sprinklers?
2. Why can't I just rely on the fire department to extinguish a fire in my home?
3. If one sprinkler head goes off, won’t they all go off?
4. Isn’t water damage from sprinklers worse than fire damage?
5. Won’t fire sprinkler systems freeze in the winter?
6. What will it cost me to install a fire sprinkler system in my home?