In addition to two counts of felony murder, the accused are charged with conspiracy to commit arson, 12 counts of arson as a Class A felony and 33 counts of arson as a Class B felony.
The daughter of an 83-year-old woman rescued from her Hampshire home following a suspected arson attack said it was a "miracle" she survived.
If it is a minor arson, normally that offence would attract a charge.
In 1997, the International Association of Arson Investigators filed a legal brief arguing that arson sleuths should not be bound by a 1993 Supreme Court decision requiring experts who testified at trials to adhere to the scientific method.
The offices of Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem have been damaged by fire in a suspected arson attack.
Tuesday's announcement comes a day after a mosque in Joplin, Missouri, burned to the ground in a fire that federal agents are investigating as a possible arson, and two days after an alleged white supremacist gunman killed six Sikhs and wounded three others, including a police officer, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Then, in mid-2012 criminals in Michoacan carried out a series of arson attacks on trucks owned by Sabritas, a local snack food subsidiary of PepsiCo.
Hampshire Constabulary said it knew of a number of arson attacks in the area and investigations were continuing.
Convicted by a jury of arson, mail fraud and money laundering, Parsons' case was further along than Lay's when he died.
Kent Police said Ashcroft also asked the court to take into account a mixture of arson and burglary offences at hospitals in Rotherham and Crawley, hotels in Manchester, Brighton and Gatwick Airport and tourist attractions in Brighton and Ramsgate.
In a separate incident, the police are investigating an arson attack on a house in Coleraine.
An MP has raised concerns in the House of Commons over the parole of a man jailed for killing eight people in an arson attack on a Huddersfield home.
In Banyoles, a nearby town, there was another arson attack, on a house inhabited by immigrants from Gambia.
Locke was found guilty of arson for setting fire to a wooden bench but Mr Wood was cleared of arson.
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The Investigative Committee added that it was examining other theories such as a short circuit or arson.
Mark Leonard and Shirley were also charged with conspiracy to commit arson as a Class B felony.
Dr Robert Hunter opened the inquest a week after the arson attack at the house in Allenton, Derby.
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The next morning the building was severely damaged in a fire, and arson has not been ruled out.
Macdonald, who has family in Great Yarmouth, had been jailed for life at Lewes Crown Court in July 1996 after he admitted arson at a block of flats in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
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Police have made a fresh appeal about a man they want to question over an arson attack which killed eight members of a Huddersfield family 10 years ago.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the "shameful" arson attack in a statement issued Friday.
They were taken into custody after a traffic stop near an arson in the town of Melfa.
Then, on the night of 11-12 July, there was an arson attack on a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim.
The ringleader of a Liverpool gang convicted of arson and firearms and drug offences has been jailed for 20 years, plus five years on licence.
Indeed, one recent analysis, using data from a National Institute of Justice arson study, showed flame retardants in upholstered furniture can provide valuable escape time.
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Tancock was sentenced to a total of 27 months for arson and dangerous driving.
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Grant was sentenced to a total of 21 months for arson and two counts of fraud.
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According to the National Farmers' Union there is a repeated problem of vandalism and arson on farms.
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Meanwhile, the headmistress of a Belfast school damaged in an arson attack has blamed anti-social elements for starting the fire.
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Mr McMullen faces charges of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to commit arson, possession of a firearm, and other offences.
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