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.

38,006

58,160

3,051

99,217

163

4,319

All times

Midnight

1,374

1,552

2,968

192

1am

1,151

1,130

2,299

167

2am

985

760

1,756

158

3am

809

605

1,424

114

4am

779

504

1,288

102

5am

672

543

1,222

6am

659

509

1,181

7am

742

581

1,361

8am

1,068

693

1,802

9am

1,220

737

2,036

137

10am

1,335

1,028

2,462

115

11am

1,692

1,386

114

3,192

170

Midday

1,838

1,693

105

3,636

193

1pm

1,867

2,157

128

4,152

207

2pm

1,999

2,640

124

4,763

227

3pm

2,078

3,236

162

5,476

235

4pm

2,165

3,957

220

6,342

242

5pm

2,502

4,953

323

7,778

280

6pm

2,477

5,796

376

8,649

283

7pm

2,373

6,333

345

9,051

259

8pm

2,189

6,302

303

8,794

237

9pm

2,043

5,219

277

7,539

229

10pm

1,709

3,539

141

5,389

192

11pm

1,529

2,192

3,790

177

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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115

867

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Title

Fires and casualties by time

Last update

November 2024

Next update

September 2025

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

Keywords

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

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 data were extracted from IRS in August 2023.
2022-23 and 2023-24 data were extracted from IRS in August 2024.
2023-24 data are currently provisional and will be updated September 2025.

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 2023-24

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

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