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Rats and mice cause 8% of all house and building fires in the U.S.

The U.S. averages 1.6 million home and building fires each year. In the last 10 years, more than 194,000 people have been injured in home and building fires, and almost 37,000 people have died. Rodents started 8% of all these fires by chewing through electrical wiring and causing a short—and most homeowner insurance policies don't cover fires caused by rodents.

If you think you're safe from the expense and heartbreak of rodent-caused fires, think again. In the U.S., 30% of all homes contain unwanted rodents.

To Prevent Electrical Fires Caused by Rodents, You Need a Rodent-free House

 All rodents have prominent, continually growing incisor teeth. Because these teeth never stop growing, rats and mice find pleasure gnawing every day to wear down their teeth. If they don't, the incisors grow too big to gnaw food, and they can´t feed properly. That's why they like to make their home where there's plenty to chew on: between walls, in drop ceilings and subfloors, in attics and garages, behind appliances, and in pantries.

One pair of mice can make 15,000 more mice in just one year. If your home is in the 30% that's already rodent-infested, call a rodent control expert for extermination methods that work and are safe. In addition to starting fires, rats and mice carry 35 known diseases, some of them fatal, so it's important to get them out of your home pronto. Do-it-yourself solutions such as poison and traps are dangerous to children and pets, leave a mess for you to clean up, and don't work all that well.

If you're lucky enough to not yet have rats and mice "eating at your table," doing some simple home maintenance and placing a natural rodent repellent in key locations will help prevent electrical fires caused by rodents. The best way to control rats and mice in your home is to make them feel unwelcome from the get-go so they never set up house in your house.