On 1 April 2025 responsibility for fire and rescue transferred from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
This information covers fires, false alarms and other incidents attended by fire crews, and the statistics include the numbers of incidents, fires, fatalities and casualties as well as information on response times to fires. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) also collect information on the workforce, fire prevention work, health and safety and firefighter pensions. All data tables on fire statistics are below.
MHCLG has responsibility for fire services in England. The vast majority of data tables produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are for England but some (0101, 0103, 0201, 0501, 1401) tables are for Great Britain split by nation. In the past the Department for Communities and Local Government (who previously had responsibility for fire services in England) produced data tables for Great Britain and at times the UK. Similar information for devolved administrations are available at https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about/statistics/">Scotland: Fire and Rescue Statistics, https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Community-Safety-and-Social-Inclusion/Community-Safety">Wales: Community safety and https://www.nifrs.org/home/about-us/publications/">Northern Ireland: Fire and Rescue Statistics.
If you use assistive technology (for example, a screen reader) and need a version of any of these documents in a more accessible format, please email alternativeformats@communities.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Fire statistics guidance
Fire statistics incident level datasets
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2aa22557debd867cbe14/FIRE0101.xlsx">FIRE0101: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 153 KB) Previous FIRE0101 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2ab52557debd867cbe15/FIRE0102.xlsx">FIRE0102: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England, by incident type and fire and rescue authority (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 2.19 MB) Previous FIRE0102 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2aca10d550c668de3c69/FIRE0103.xlsx">FIRE0103: Fires attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 201 KB) Previous FIRE0103 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2ad92557debd867cbe16/FIRE0104.xlsx">FIRE0104: Fire false alarms by reason for false alarm, England (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 492 KB) Previous FIRE0104 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2af42cfe301b5fb6789f/FIRE0201.xlsx">FIRE0201: Dwelling fires attended by fire and rescue services by motive, population and nation (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 192 KB) Previous FIRE0201 tables
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This dataset includes a list of chemicals used to create the ChromGenius retention time prediction model used for validation of non-targeted compounds. The list of identified non-targeted compounds in the samples is also provided. This dataset is not publicly accessible because: EPA cannot release personally identifiable information regarding living individuals, according to the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This dataset contains information about human research subjects. Because there is potential to identify individual participants and disclose personal information, either alone or in combination with other datasets, individual level data are not appropriate to post for public access. Restricted access may be granted to authorized persons by contacting the party listed. It can be accessed through the following means: By viewing the analyzed spreadsheets attached to the Journal Article. Format: The original dataset contains identification information for the firefighters who participated in the controlled structure burns. The analyzed data can be made publicly available.
This dataset is associated with the following publication: Wallace, A., J. Pleil, K. Oliver, D. Whitaker, S. Mentese, K. Fent, and G. Horn. Non-targeted GC/MS analysis of exhaled breath samples: Exploring human biomarkers of exogenous exposure and endogenous response from professional firefighting activity. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH - PART A: CURRENT ISSUES. Taylor & Francis, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA, 82(4): 244-260, (2019).
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On 1 April 2025 responsibility for fire and rescue transferred from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
This information covers fires, false alarms and other incidents attended by fire crews, and the statistics include the numbers of incidents, fires, fatalities and casualties as well as information on response times to fires. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) also collect information on the workforce, fire prevention work, health and safety and firefighter pensions. All data tables on fire statistics are below.
MHCLG has responsibility for fire services in England. The vast majority of data tables produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are for England but some (0101, 0103, 0201, 0501, 1401) tables are for Great Britain split by nation. In the past the Department for Communities and Local Government (who previously had responsibility for fire services in England) produced data tables for Great Britain and at times the UK. Similar information for devolved administrations are available at https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about/statistics/">Scotland: Fire and Rescue Statistics, https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Community-Safety-and-Social-Inclusion/Community-Safety">Wales: Community safety and https://www.nifrs.org/home/about-us/publications/">Northern Ireland: Fire and Rescue Statistics.
If you use assistive technology (for example, a screen reader) and need a version of any of these documents in a more accessible format, please email alternativeformats@communities.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Fire statistics guidance
Fire statistics incident level datasets
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2aa22557debd867cbe14/FIRE0101.xlsx">FIRE0101: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 153 KB) Previous FIRE0101 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2ab52557debd867cbe15/FIRE0102.xlsx">FIRE0102: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England, by incident type and fire and rescue authority (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 2.19 MB) Previous FIRE0102 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2aca10d550c668de3c69/FIRE0103.xlsx">FIRE0103: Fires attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 201 KB) Previous FIRE0103 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2ad92557debd867cbe16/FIRE0104.xlsx">FIRE0104: Fire false alarms by reason for false alarm, England (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 492 KB) Previous FIRE0104 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686d2af42cfe301b5fb6789f/FIRE0201.xlsx">FIRE0201: Dwelling fires attended by fire and rescue services by motive, population and nation (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 192 KB) Previous FIRE0201 tables
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