Fires and casualties by time

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Fires

Fatalities A fatal casualty is a person whose death is attributed to a fire even if the death occurred weeks or months later. There are also occasional cases where it is subsequently found that fire was not the cause of death. The figures for fatalities are thus subject to revision.

A fatal casualty is a person whose death is attributed to a fire even if the death occurred weeks or months later. There are also occasional cases where it is subsequently found that fire was not the cause of death. The figures for fatalities are thus subject to revision.

Non-fatal Casualties $Non-fatal casualties are recorded as being in one of four classes of severity as follows: (i) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be serious (ii) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be slight (iii) First aid given at scene (iv) Precautionary check recommended – this is when an individual is sent to hospital or advised to see a doctor as a precaution, having no obvious injury or distress. Non-fatal casualties marked as \'not fire-related\' have not been excluded due to widespread inappropriate use of this field. Therefore there is a possible discontinuity in the time series between 2008-09 and 2009-10.$

All fires

Primary fires Includes all fires in buildings, non-derelict vehicles and outdoor structures or any fire involving casualties, rescues, or fires attended by five or more appliances.

Includes all fires in buildings, non-derelict vehicles and outdoor structures or any fire involving casualties, rescues, or fires attended by five or more appliances.

Secondary fires These are the majority of outdoor fires including grassland and refuse fires unless they involve casualties or rescues, property loss or five or more appliances attend. They include fires in single derelict buildings.

These are the majority of outdoor fires including grassland and refuse fires unless they involve casualties or rescues, property loss or five or more appliances attend. They include fires in single derelict buildings.

Chimney fires Chimney fires are any fires in occupied buildings where the fire was confined within the chimney structure (and did not involve casualties or rescues or attendance by five or more appliances).

Chimney fires are any fires in occupied buildings where the fire was confined within the chimney structure (and did not involve casualties or rescues or attendance by five or more appliances).

All times

For 2008-09 data, items and totals have been rounded separately to the nearest final digit so the total shown may differ slightly from the sum of the items.

34,081

52,601

2,833

89,515

145

3,953

All times

Midnight

1,243

1,400

2,684

180

1am

1,051

1,022

2,090

156

2am

882

685

1,574

142

3am

743

526

1,279

110

4am

711

449

1,164

5am

607

490

1,103

6am

575

462

1,050

7am

667

517

1,217

8am

949

619

1,607

9am

1,103

675

1,849

128

10am

1,183

927

2,204

105

11am

1,514

1,264

107

2,885

164

Midday

1,663

1,523

100

3,286

184

1pm

1,651

1,981

119

3,751

187

2pm

1,783

2,412

116

4,311

197

3pm

1,856

2,934

151

4,941

220

4pm

1,952

3,596

199

5,747

220

5pm

2,244

4,498

298

7,040

259

6pm

2,218

5,233

353

7,804

256

7pm

2,120

5,718

327

8,165

227

8pm

1,976

5,701

279

7,956

213

9pm

1,836

4,714

254

6,804

212

10pm

1,497

3,174

127

4,798

171

11pm

1,369

1,979

3,415

168

Late call

Late fire call is a fire known to be extinguished when the call was made (or to which no call was made, e.g. a fire which comes to the attention of the Fire and Rescue Service) and which the Fire and Rescue Service attended.

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791

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Title

Fires and casualties by time

Last update

October 2023

Next update

September 2024

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Fire incident recording system, Home Office

Contact email

stats.inclusion@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Fire and rescue authorities

Geographical coverage

Fire and rescue authorities

Languages covered

English only

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

The table shows the numbers of fires and associated casualties (fatal and non-fatal) attended by the Fire and Rescue Authorities in Wales. The data is shown by time of day.
Since 2009-10 data have been extracted from the Incident Recording System (IRS). This is a live system and consequently it is possible that data extracted at a different time may not match the figures in this table. For instance the data published in the Performance Indicator tables are extracted at a different time and so may not match exactly those presented here.
Added to StatsWales: August 2011
2008-09 data were taken from FDR1 and FDR3 paper forms.
Data from 2009-10 onwards are taken from IRS.
2009-10 data were extracted from IRS in May 2011.
2010-11 data were extracted from IRS in May 2012.
2011-12 data were extracted from IRS in May 2013.
2012-13 data were extracted from IRS in May 2014.
2013-14 data were extracted from IRS in June 2015.
2014-15 data were extracted from IRS in July 2016.
2015-16 data were extracted from IRS in July 2017.
2016-17 data were extracted from IRS in July 2018.
2017-18 data were extracted from IRS in July 2019.
2018-19 data were extracted from IRS in September 2020
2019-20 data were extracted from IRS in August 2021.
2020-21 data were extracted from IRS in August 2022.
2021-22 and 2022-23 data were extracted from IRS in August 2023.
2022-23 data are currently provisional and will be updated September 2024.
Source: The Home Office
Contact: stats.inclusion@gov.wales

Data collection and calculation

Data prior to 2009-10 were collected via the Fire Data Report (FDR) paper forms.
Data from 2009-10 onwards were collected via the Incident Recording System (IRS).

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Financial years 2008-09 to 2022-23

Users, uses and context

The data are used to inform policy decisions and to provide contextual information. The data is used by the Welsh Government to help monitor trends in incidents attended by FRAs over time and provides information on FRAs’ performance and activities to citizens and communities in Wales.
See web link for further information.

Rounding applied

Fire data prior to 2009-10 are based on a sampled dataset and so are rounded to the nearest whole number. For this reason the sum of component parts may not equal the totals shown.

Revisions information

Revisions are marked with an (r). The most recent year shown is currently provisional and may be revised when the table is next updated.

Statistical quality

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Weblinks

Data quality report.
http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/fire-statistics/?lang=en#/statistics-and-research/fire-statistics/fire-statistics-quality-report/?lang=en

Keywords

Fire, Fire and Rescue Authorities, casualties, fatal, non-fatal, time

Name

CSAF0055

Dataset

http://open.statswales.gov.wales/dataset/csaf0055

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http://open.statswales.gov.wales/en-gb/discover/metadata?$filter=Dataset eq 'csaf0055'

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http://open.statswales.gov.wales/en-gb/discover/datasetdimensions?$filter=Dataset eq 'csaf0055'

Items

http://open.statswales.gov.wales/en-gb/discover/datasetdimensionitems?$filter=Dataset eq 'csaf0055'