Topics covered in this publication include the causes of fires, the use of smoke alarms, the seasonality and temporality of fires and other topics of interest to the fire statistics community. The Fire Statistics Monitor provides updates on key variables such as the number of incidents attended, fires attended, fire-related fatalities and casualties.

Prior to the 2014/15 release this publication covered Great Britain. However, after a survey of Fire Statistics Great Britain users, it was decided to change the scope of the release to reflect user needs. This is the second release to contain statistics about incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England, except in section 7 where some national comparisons with Scotland and Wales are shown.

Each time a fire and rescue service (FRS) attends an incident in England, details of that incident are uploaded to the Home Office’s Incident Recording System (IRS) by the FRS. The IRS is used as the source for all the statistics in this publication.