You wrote:

Consider that as the number of EVs on the road increase, due to government forced adoption, the number of EVs involved in crashes will increase, and the number of ICE vehicles involved in crashes will decrease. This is a simple mathematical reality. The numbers you quoted as to how many of what type of vehicles catch fire per 1000 will change significantly as more EVs are on the road. Again, it's a math problem. And because EVs will burn when they crash, and because EV fires are more difficult and dangerous to put out, it stands to reason that EVs are not as safe as ICE vehicle.

What it is, Mark, is fuzzy math. 

For the sake of conversation, lets say there are 400,000 EVs on the road. At 0.25 fires per 1000 that would be 100 fires. If the number of EVs increases ten-fold to 4,000,000 one would expect the number of EV fires to increase to 1000, all things being equal. That is still 0.25 per 1000. The number of fires per thousand would not increase, just the total number of fires.

As time passes, I would expect that safety improvements will be made to reduce the number of fires in EVs.