Your dryer duct is easy to overlook, but it can represent a real danger to you and your family. Dryer fires due to dryer ducts plugged by lint are among the most common causes of almost 13,000 of the residence fires in this country, killing 15 people and injuring 300 annually. “Failure to clean” is the leading cause of these fires. Data source: January, 2007, FEMA report www.usfa.dhs.gov/downloads/pdf/tfrs/v7i1.pdf