Secondary fires by fire and rescue authority, England
Accredited official statistics
Secondary fires, mostly small outdoor fires such as grass and refuse fires, that each of England's fire and rescue authorities attended in each of the latest five quarters, from MHCLG's fire statistics.
England
29,112
Apr–Jun 2026
Verified against source, 3 November 2026, 23:48 UTC- Apr–Jun 2026
- Apr–Jun 2025
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
45 rows
| Area | Apr–Jun 2026 | Jan–Mar 2026 | Oct–Dec 2025 | Jul–Sep 2025 | Apr–Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority E31000046 | 3,426 | 1,572 | 1,803 | 3,336 | 3,652 |
| West Yorkshire E31000045 | 1,967 | 923 | 985 | 2,535 | 3,276 |
| West Midlands E31000044 | 1,922 | 846 | 939 | 2,790 | 2,710 |
| Greater Manchester E31000040 | 1,690 | 874 | 1,068 | 1,764 | 2,789 |
| South Yorkshire E31000042 | 1,499 | 642 | 749 | 1,856 | 1,873 |
| Tyne and Wear E31000043 | 1,452 | 698 | 925 | 1,632 | 2,443 |
| Merseyside E31000041 | 1,119 | 501 | 716 | 1,369 | 1,800 |
| Cleveland E31000007 | 1,035 | 558 | 723 | 1,612 | 2,066 |
| County Durham and Darlington E31000013 | 880 | 387 | 465 | 960 | 1,402 |
| Essex E31000015 | 852 | 315 | 402 | 1,072 | 939 |
| Lancashire E31000023 | 842 | 466 | 525 | 936 | 1,484 |
| Kent E31000022 | 796 | 302 | 360 | 877 | 907 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight E31000048 | 738 | 251 | 269 | 789 | 794 |
| Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire E31000033 | 729 | 323 | 325 | 808 | 935 |
| Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham E31000030 | 654 | 221 | 231 | 768 | 881 |
| Humberside E31000020 | 652 | 282 | 385 | 729 | 971 |
| Avon E31000001 | 513 | 243 | 263 | 758 | 640 |
| Devon & Somerset E31000011 | 513 | 219 | 212 | 818 | 710 |
| Derbyshire E31000010 | 435 | 164 | 153 | 537 | 692 |
| Hertfordshire E31000019 | 434 | 157 | 188 | 414 | 508 |
| Cheshire E31000006 | 430 | 195 | 201 | 464 | 662 |
| Dorset & Wiltshire E31000047 | 427 | 168 | 198 | 608 | 599 |
| Surrey E31000035 | 422 | 127 | 129 | 415 | 452 |
| Cambridgeshire E31000005 | 398 | 133 | 171 | 461 | 319 |
| Royal Berkshire E31000003 | 361 | 122 | 144 | 433 | 421 |
| Bedfordshire E31000002 | 360 | 134 | 172 | 408 | 425 |
| Leicestershire E31000024 | 359 | 199 | 198 | 489 | 547 |
| Hereford & Worcester E31000018 | 339 | 132 | 125 | 516 | 388 |
| Lincolnshire E31000025 | 338 | 151 | 135 | 382 | 370 |
| North Yorkshire E31000027 | 328 | 118 | 135 | 393 | 484 |
| Norfolk E31000026 | 324 | 140 | 162 | 436 | 407 |
| Northamptonshire E31000028 | 320 | 113 | 123 | 342 | 413 |
| Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes E31000004 | 299 | 120 | 167 | 358 | 343 |
| East Sussex E31000014 | 291 | 103 | 133 | 231 | 315 |
| Northumberland E31000029 | 252 | 107 | 149 | 288 | 464 |
| Gloucestershire E31000016 | 249 | 109 | 103 | 383 | 298 |
| West Sussex E31000037 | 245 | 74 | 115 | 287 | 343 |
| Suffolk E31000034 | 231 | 108 | 96 | 296 | 286 |
| Oxfordshire E31000031 | 224 | 86 | 77 | 279 | 238 |
| Warwickshire E31000036 | 222 | 85 | 117 | 290 | 273 |
| Cornwall E31000008 | 206 | 139 | 97 | 250 | 230 |
| Cumbria E31000009 | 179 | 97 | 99 | 160 | 311 |
| Shropshire E31000032 | 157 | 62 | 83 | 258 | 210 |
| Isles of Scilly E31000039 | 3 | 2 | no row in MHCLG's table | 5 | no row in MHCLG's table |
| England | 29,112 | 12,768 | 14,815 | 34,792 | 40,270 |
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
- 3 November 2026, 23:46 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/6ada2ac39223b6191dab330c/FIRE0102.xlsxSHA-256 18276034bbbb31eb60699d8e9ea6043a265c92bdd1c07680ee67f114c910e056 · 1,972,533 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 3 November 2026, 23:48 UTC Run at 3 November 2026, 23:48 UTC; 225 of 225 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-03T23:46:45Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 225 of 225 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's missing match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 225 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 225 of 225 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's missing match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-06-30 ended 126 days before retrieval (limit 250), from FIRE0102: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England, by incident type and fire and rescue authority |
| Not run | Second official route | No independent second route to each authority's figures is published: each is one cell of MHCLG's table, and the live re-fetch is the check. |
| Pass | England's printed quarters add up from its authorities | 65 of 65 cases of the quarters Data gives rows for, of any type, and England's printed quarters within them, England's 'Secondary Fires' in FIRE0102_Quarterly equals the authorities' rows of 'Secondary Fires' in Data added up, a missing row as none |
| Pass | England's printed years add up from its authorities' quarters | 16 of 16 cases of the financial years Data gives whole, of any type, England's 'Secondary Fires' in FIRE0102 equals the authorities' four quarters of 'Secondary Fires' in Data added up |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Accredited official statistics from the incident records fire and rescue services complete, collected by the Fire and Rescue Data Platform since November 2025 (the Incident Recording System before), whose move brought small revisions. MHCLG gives each authority's quarters but no year, so the hub gives none.
- Quarters are MHCLG's financial-year quarters, shown by their months: the first quarter of 2026/27 is April to June 2026. England's figure is MHCLG's own, from its quarterly table. The chart draws the latest quarter beside the same quarter a year before and leaves England to the table.
- An authority with no row in MHCLG's table for a quarter shows why rather than 0. Lancashire's and Leicestershire's latest figures are provisional, and MHCLG says Suffolk's from September 2024 to June 2025 are too low, since it could not submit every incident.
- Each authority is named as the ONS's register of areas names the code MHCLG gives it, so MHCLG's Greater London is the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority here.