Fire and Rescue Incident Statistics for England and Great Britain

Fire and rescue incident data collected by the Home Office for England, with some tables covering Great Britain. The statistics include counts of incidents, fires, fatalities, casualties, and fire response times. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Modeling fire incident trends based on reported incident counts.
• Analyzing emergency service response efficiency based on response time data.
• Assessing public safety outcomes based on fatality and casualty statistics.
• Comparing fire service performance across UK nations based on the split national tables.

Strengths

• Includes key operational metrics: incidents, fires, fatalities, casualties, and response times.
• Provides national breakdowns for Great Britain in specific tables (0101, 0103, 0201, 0501, 1401).
• Links to similar statistics for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are referenced.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the primary focus on England.

Provenance

Source

Home Office (UK government department).

Collection Method

Administrative records from fire services.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:20.642832; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Primarily England, with some tables for Great Britain split by nation.