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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This dataset provide 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 such as the statistics published on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service website.
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.
Information at data zone level has been disclosure controlled with data swapping in some data zones. Swapping data for a small percentage of records before producing the aggregate results at Local Authority level has a negligible effect on the overall trends but ensures the confidentiality of individual records.
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]https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables).
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a link for Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service statistics as they do not use the Incident Reporting System and do not publish comparable statistics.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, raw data, and 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 voluntary 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.
In February 2019, we updated our methodology for allocating datazones to higher geographies to align with Government Statistical Service Geography Policy. This resulted in revisions to some aggregated figures at Electoral Ward and Scottish Parliament Constituency level.
This is a linked data resource: it has a permanent unique uri at which both humans and machines can find it on the Internet, and which can be used an identifier in queries on our SPARQL endpoint.
A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values
| Dimension | Locked Value |
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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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Type Of Fire
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/typeOfFire
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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) |
Linked Data is stored in graphs. We keep dataset contents (the data) separately from the metadata, to make it easier for you to find exactly what you need.
The data in this dataset are stored in the graph: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/fire---type-of-incident
The data structure definition for this data cube dataset is stored in the same graph as the data: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/fire---type-of-incident
All other metadata about this dataset are stored in the graph: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/fire---type-of-incident/metadata
A breakdown by type of the 10,307 resources in this dataset's data graph.
| Resource type | Number of resources |
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| Collection | 2 |
| Component specification | 7 |
| Data set | 1 |
| Data structure definition | 1 |
| Observation | 10,296 |
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