Number of fires, by type of fire and whether accidental or not
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| Accident Status | |
| Measure Type | |
| Reference Period | |
| Type Of Fire | |
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Reference Area
(showing types of area available in these data) |
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Entire dataset
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This dataset provides the numbers and rates of fires in Scotland down to datazone level. Data is provided for the total number of fires, including accidental and deliberate causes.
Data is entered by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service into the Incident Recording System. This dataset is an extract from this live management information system, and thus may differ slightly from other extracts taken on different dates.
Some fires could only be attributed to Local Authorities, and not lower level geographies. Therefore, the sum of fires for lower level geographies will not match those at Local Authority or Scotland level.
Further details on quality assurance of fire incidents data is available in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service guidance notes
Data is recorded by the fire service officer in charge of an incident and is grid referenced. Care should be exercised in using the small geography data as low numbers of fires and some small populations can produce atypical outputs.
The Home Office publish a range of fire statistics for England.
The Welsh Government publish fire statistics for Wales.
We do not present a link for Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service statistics as they do not use the Incident Reporting System and do not publish comparable statistics.
Statistics on Fire and Rescue incidents in Scotland covering fires, casualties, non-fire incidents and false alarms, are available on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service website. This includes a statistical report, a tables and charts workbook, open data, a statistical news document and an infographic.
A glossary defining key terms relating to this dataset is available in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service guidance notes
This publication presents fire and rescue incident statistics for Scotland, produced by SFRS in compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
Incidents should be reported within 2 weeks of occurrence though completion may take longer depending on investigations etc. Data is published as provisional and revised the following year.
All years are revised at each update.
This slice of multidimensional data is not a Linked Data resource in the database: it's a virtual resource (i.e. you can't query it by SPARQL). But does have a permanent unique URL which can be bookmarked.
A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values
| Dimension | Locked Value |
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Type Of Fire
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/typeOfFire
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Outdoor Fire
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/concept/type-of-fire/outdoor-fire
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Accident Status
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/accidentStatus
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(not locked to a value) |
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Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
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(not locked to a value) |
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Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
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(not locked to a value) |
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Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
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(not locked to a value) |