Fire statistics guidance
This page contains all guidance, quality and definition documents associated with fire statistics.
- From:
- Home Office
- Published
- 13 May 2021
- Last updated
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2519JanuarySeptember 2024 — See all updates
Applies to England
Documents
The XLS incident recording taxonomy hierarchical lists vers 1-0p
MS Excel Spreadsheet, 154 KB
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Incident recording system - questions and lists - version 1.6 - (XML schemas v1-0p) in use from April 2012
PDF, 1.47 MB, 117 pages
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Details
Methodology and quality report
This document gives detailed information on the dataset used to compile fire and rescue incident statistics and its quality.
Guidance on Incident recording system for fire and rescue authorities
These documents describe the questions and options that are recorded for each type of incident within the incident recording system by fire and rescue authorities across Great Britain. The document is for users of the data both in the fire and rescue authorities and elsewhere.
Fire statistics definitions
This document brings together all definitions from operational and non-operational statistics. Previously these were in separate documents.
Updates to this page
Last updated
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Updated 'Fire statistics definitions' to accompany publication of 'Detailed analysis of fires, England, April 2023 to March 2024'.
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Updated 'Fire statistics definitions' to accompany publication of 'Fire and rescue incident statistics, year ending September 2023'.
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Added 'Fire and Rescue Service workforce and pension statistics quality and methodology information'.
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Updated 'Fire statistics definitions'.
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Updated 'Fire statistics definitions'.
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Updated 'Fire statistics definitions'.
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Updated 'Fire statistics definitions' HTML version, 'Fire and rescue incident statistics: Methodology and quality report' and 'Fire statistics definitions' PDF versions removed.
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Update history
2026-07-22 09:30
Small amendments to recognise that some items are not current and are now worthy of being in the guidance rather than statistical releases.
2024-10-17 09:30
Updated ‘Fire and Rescue Service workforce and pension statistics quality and methodology information’ and ‘Fire statistics definitions’ to accompany ‘Fire workforce and pension statistics, year ending March 2024’.
2024-09-19 09:30
Updated ‘Fire statistics definitions’ to accompany publication of ‘Detailed analysis of fires, England, April 2023 to March 2024’.
2024-01-25 09:30
Updated ‘Fire statistics definitions’ to accompany publication of ‘Fire and rescue incident statistics, year ending September 2023’.
2023-10-19 09:30
Added ‘Fire and Rescue Service workforce and pension statistics quality and methodology information’.
2023-05-22 10:45
Updated ‘Fire statistics definitions’.
2022-09-29 09:30
Updated ‘Fire statistics definitions’.