Are battery storage fires becoming more or less common?
The register holds 16 battery storage fires dated 2024, 17 dated 2025 and 21 so far in 2026. Read these as counts of what is recorded: the register is new and has been filling in an archive, so a rise across years measures the register before it measures the world.
Counted from the register's published entries on 2026-11-03. Every entry is written from published news and trade reporting and lists its sources. Every battery storage entry.
Read the count as a count of what is recorded. The register is new and has been filling in an archive, so a rise across years is a measure of the register, not of the world, and a country with open reporting appears more often than one without. The methodology says how entries are found, written and checked.
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