Fire and rescue incident statistics: April 2024 to March 2025

The analysis in this bulletin relates to fire and rescue service incidents between April 2024 and end March 2025 (2024-25), whilst making comparisons with April 2023 to March 2024 (2023-24).

The report includes information on fires, location, cause, motive, casualties, false alarms and Special Service Incidents (SSIs) attended. 

Main points

Numbers of fires attended have seen a downward trend since 2001-02, falling by over 70%. Over the last ten years numbers have been relatively stable staying around 10,000 to 13,000. The 2024-25 figure is the second lowest in the time series at 10,166.

The number of fire false alarms has also fallen but to a lesser extent, only decreasing by 10% since 2001-02; recent years have seen annual increases but in 2024-25 the figure fell for the first time since 2019-20 (to 16,966).

Numbers of Special Service Incidents (SSIs) have fluctuated throughout the time series, 2024-25 saw a 2% increase compared with the previous year.

Compared with 2023-24, numbers of fires rose by 5% in 2024-25; numbers of primary fires saw no percentage change whilst there was an 8% increase in the number of secondary fires.

There were 16 fatal casualties from fires in Wales in 2024-25. This is 2 fewer more than in 2023-24.

There were 389 non-fatal casualties in 2024-25, an increase of 6% compared with 2023-24.