Fire and Rescue Services
(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fire incidents did fire and rescue services attend in each of the last five years in England.
The Home Office operates the online Incident Recording System (IRS) to collect data on incidents attended by Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) in England. Subsequently, statistics on these are published quarterly here: Fire statistics - Quarterly Publication.
The table below provides the number of fire incidents attended by FRSs in England in each of the last 5 years.
Year ending March | Fire incidents attended |
2019 | 182,941 |
2020 | 154,186 |
2021 | 151,097 |
2022 | 152,639 |
2023 | 178,737 |
The data in this table are consistent with records that reached the IRS by 23 May 2023. The data was published on 27th July in table FIRE0102 (Fire statistics data tables - Incidents Attended).
For a variety of reasons, some records take longer than others for FRSs to upload to the IRS and, therefore, totals are subject to small revisions.