Incidents attended by fire and rescue services, England
Fires, fire false alarms and non-fire incidents such as road traffic collisions and flooding attended by fire and rescue services in England, each financial year since 1999/00.
Incidents attended
642,003
2025/26
Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 23:43 UTCSource: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
27 rows
| Category | Incidents attended |
|---|---|
| 1999/00 | 929,573 |
| 2000/01 | 912,741 |
| 2001/02 | 990,793 |
| 2002/03 | 958,142 |
| 2003/04 | 1,016,028 |
| 2004/05 | 861,384 |
| 2005/06 | 843,734 |
| 2006/07 | 854,371 |
| 2007/08 | 791,746 |
| 2008/09 | 717,805 |
| 2009/10 | 680,634 |
| 2010/11 | 647,398 |
| 2011/12 | 606,960 |
| 2012/13 | 521,324 |
| 2013/14 | 526,923 |
| 2014/15 | 496,316 |
| 2015/16 | 529,733 |
| 2016/17 | 560,802 |
| 2017/18 | 566,235 |
| 2018/19 | 576,609 |
| 2019/20 | 558,042 |
| 2020/21 | 518,328 |
| 2021/22 | 577,223 |
| 2022/23 | 622,733 |
| 2023/24 | 600,567 |
| 2024/25 | 605,970 |
| 2025/26 | 642,003 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 28 October 2026, 23:40 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tablesSHA-256 d4368752e6967f436586424a77388c3fa0cf24db3816099ea7fa9c197b1241ed · 254,091 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ada2a579ea4857e15ab32fb/FIRE0101.xlsxSHA-256 97f185c8782695a0b55f12b659ed796546efd7641816e7f8e69e63138560f752 · 322,570 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 23:43 UTC Run at 28 October 2026, 23:43 UTC; 27 of 27 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-28T23:40:48Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 27 of 27 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 27 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 27 of 27 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025/26 ended 211 days before retrieval (limit 560), from FIRE0101: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population |
| Pass | Incident records add up | 16 of 16 figures match the Data sheet of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ada2ac39223b6191dab330c/FIRE0102.xlsx summed over services, quarters and incident types |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- From the incident records fire and rescue services complete for every incident they attend, which moved to a new collection system in November 2025 with small revisions. Suffolk under-recorded incidents from September 2024 to June 2025.
- Fire statistics moved from the Home Office to MHCLG in 2025.