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Y36.3 - War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances


The ICD 10 Code for War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances is listed as Y36.3.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: Y36.3
Description: War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
  • War operations involving smoke, fumes, and heat from fires, conflagrations and hot substances
  • Excludes1: war operations involving fires and conflagrations aboard military aircraft (Y36.1-)
  • war operations involving fires and conflagrations aboard military watercraft (Y36.0-)
  • war operations involving fires and conflagrations caused indirectly by conventional weapons (Y36.2-)
  • war operations involving fires and thermal effects of nuclear weapons (Y36.53-)
Chapter External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99)
Block Legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism (Y35-Y38)
Parent Y36 - Operations of war
ICD-10-CM Children (deeper level / typically more specific) of Y36.3:
Y36.30 - War operations involving unspecified fire, conflagration and hot substance
Y36.31 - War operations involving gasoline bomb
Y36.32 - War operations involving incendiary bullet
Y36.33 - War operations involving flamethrower
Y36.39 - War operations involving other fires, conflagrations and hot substances
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of Y36.3:
Y36.0 - War operations involving explosion of marine weapons
Y36.1 - War operations involving destruction of aircraft
Y36.2 - War operations involving other explosions and fragments
Y36.4 - War operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
Y36.5 - War operations involving nuclear weapons
Y36.6 - War operations involving biological weapons
Y36.7 - War operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
Y36.8 - War operations occurring after cessation of hostilities
Y36.9 - Other and unspecified war operations