Detailed analysis of fires attended by fire and rescue services, England

This release presents detailed statistics on fire incidents which occurred in the financial year 2021 to 2022 (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022) for fire and rescue services (FRSs) in England.

In the year ending March 2022:

• 577,053 incidents were attended by FRSs, this was 11 per cent increase compared with the previous year (518,270), three per cent increase compared with five years ago (560,694) and five per cent decrease compared with ten years ago (606,941)
• the increase in incidents attended this year compared with the previous year was driven by increases in all three main incident types (fires, non-fire incidents and fire false alarms), as restrictions to life due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the previous year may have reduced the number of certain incident types and this should be borne in mind when considering year on year comparisons.
• of all incidents attended by FRSs, fires accounted for 26 per cent, fire false alarms 40 per cent and non-fire incidents 34 per cent compared with fires accounting for 37 per cent, fire false alarms 41 per cent and nonfire incidents 22 per cent ten years ago