Fire and rescue authority performance: April 2024 to March 2025
Information on fires attended, casualties due to fires, false alarms, Special Service Incidents and contained dwelling fires for April 2024 to March 2025.
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Introduction
These statistics relate to fire and rescue service incidents between April 2024 and year end March 2025.
An annual update presenting information on fires attended, casualties due to fires, false alarms, Special Service Incidents and contained dwelling fires.
The Welsh Government’s Performance Management Framework for measuring Fire and Rescue Authority (FRA) performance was introduced in 2007, data, including FRS level data, are published on StatsWales in the table Fire service performance indicators (StatsWales).
FRAs publish their performance data on their own websites, available in the below links:
Further information on the data collection and quality can be found in our fire statistics quality report.
The performance indicators are grouped under two themes: ‘risk reduction and community safety’ and ‘effective response’.
Risk reduction and community safety
1st Indicator FRS/RRC/S/001
- Total fires attended per 10,000 population.
- Total false alarms attended per 10,000 population.
- Total Road Traffic Collisions (RTCs) attended per 10,000 population.
- Total other incidents attended per 10,000 population.
- deaths and injuries arising from all fires per 100,000 population.
2nd Indicator FRS/RRC/S/002
Total number of:
- deaths and injuries arising from all fires per 100,000 population
- deaths and injuries arising from accidental fires per 100,000 population
Effective response
3rd Indicator FRS/EFR/S/003
The percentage of dwelling fires which were contained in the room in which they originated.
Main results for 2024-25
- There were 10,163 fires attended by the FRAs in Wales, equating to 32 fires per 10,000 population. This is an increase of 5% compared with 2023-24. Since responsibility for fire and rescue services was devolved to Wales in 2004‑05 the number and rate have more than halved.
- There were 17,777 false alarms attended in 2024-25, equating to 56 per 10,000 population and a decrease of 3% compared with 2023-24.
- The FRAs in Wales attended 1,971 road traffic collisions in 2024-25, this is 6 per 10,000 population and a rise of 3% compared with 2023-24.
- The FRAs in Wales attended 8,151 SSIs which weren’t road traffic collisions in 2024-25, this is 26 per 10,000 population; the number saw no percentage change compared with 2023-24.
- There were 150 deaths and injuries due to fires in Wales (5 per 100,000 population). This is an increase of 26% in the number of casualties compared with 2023-24.
- There were 137 deaths and injuries due to accidental fires in Wales (4 per 100,000 population). This is an increase of 37% in the number of casualties compared with 2023-24. These casualties are those sent to hospital and do not include those receiving first aid or sent for precautionary checks.
- 86% of dwelling fires in Wales were contained within the room where the fire started.
