Y36.3
ICD-10Non-billable categoryWar operations involving fire/hot subst
Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)
War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Y36.3 is a category heading, not a billable code. CMS does not accept it on a claim; report one of the more specific codes beneath it.
Inclusion terms
- War operations involving smoke, fumes, and heat from fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Excludes1
Not coded here. An Excludes1 code should never be reported at the same time as the code above it.
- 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-)
ICD-10-CM FY2026 defines 5 codes beneath Y36.3. See the ICD-10-CM index for what this site publishes.
Related codes in Y36
- Y36.0War operations involving explosion of marine weaponscategory
- Y36.1War operations involving destruction of aircraftcategory
- Y36.2War operations involving other explosions and fragmentscategory
- Y36.4War op involving firearm discharge and oth conventl warfarecategory
- Y36.5War operations involving nuclear weaponscategory
- Y36.6War operations involving biological weaponscategory
- Y36.7War op involving chemical weapons and oth unconvtl warfarecategory
- Y36.8War operations occurring after cessation of hostilitiescategory
- Y36.9Other and unspecified war operationscategory
- Y36.ABlast overpressure in war operationscategory
Where this code sits
- Parent code
- Y36
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ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order” (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.