Casualties by area and financial year

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Year

Area

Area 1

Count

Count 1

Count 2

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

Since April 2009, data have been collected via the Incident Recording System (IRS). This has replaced the previous FDR paper forms and may cause an increase in the reporting of some categories of fire from 2009-10 onwards.

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

Wales Total

North Wales

Fatalities

Non-fatal casualties

210

199

170

213

191

179

209

208

234

281

228

213

276

194

Mid and West Wales

Fatalities

Non-fatal casualties

300

270

293

222

238

167

178

149

158

132

184

151

167

194

South Wales

Fatalities

Non-fatal casualties

423

393

366

360

330

286

245

300

183

194

180

177

183

155

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High level information
Summary information
Statistical quality information
Weblinks
Keywords
Open Data

Title

Fires, casualties and fatalities timeseries

Last update

July 2015

Next update

July 2016

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Fire incident recording system, Department for Communities and Local Government

Contact email

stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Fire and rescue authorities

Geographical coverage

Fire and rescue authorities

Languages covered

English only

General description

The table shows the number of fires (by type and location) and the associated casualties (fatalities and non-fatal casualties) attended by the Fire and Rescue Services in Wales.
Note: In April 2009 the method of data collection changed from paper forms to via the Incident Recording System (IRS). Data earlier than 2009-10 (pre IRS) are partially based on sampled data, weighted to true brigade totals.
2009-10 data were extracted from IRS in May 2011.
2010-11 data were extracted in May 2012.
2011-12 data were extracted from IRS in May 2013.
2012-13 data were extracted from IRS in May 2014.
2013-14 and 2014-15 data were extracted in June 2015.
2014-15 data are provisional and will be updated next year.
The nature of the live system means that data extracted for the Performance Indicator tables (in June) may not match that published here.
Non-fatal casualties marked 'not fire-related' have not been excluded due to some concern within CLG that this field has not been correctly used. There is therefore a possible discontinuity in the non-fatal casualties time series between 2008-09 and 2009-10.

Added to StatsWales: July 2011
Source: Department for Communities and Local Government
Contact: stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Data collection and calculation

Data prior to 2009-10 were collected via the Fire Data Report (FDR) paper forms.
Data from 2009-10 onwards were collected via the Incident Recording System (IRS).

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Financial years 20001-02 to 2014-15

Users, uses and context

The data are used to inform policy decisions and to provide contextual information. The data is used by the Welsh Government to help monitor trends in incidents attended by FRSs over time and provides information on FRSs’ performance and activities to citizens and communities in Wales.
See web link for further information.

Rounding applied

Fire data prior to 2009-10 are based on a sampled dataset and so are rounded to the nearest whole number. For this reason the sum of component parts may not equal the totals shown.

Revisions information

Revisions are marked with an (r). The most recent year currently shown is provisional and may be revised when the table is next updated.

Statistical quality

See web link

Weblinks

Data quality report.
http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/fire-statistics/?lang=en#/statistics-and-research/fire-statistics/fire-statistics-quality-report/?lang=en

Keywords

Fire, Fire and Rescue Service, Casualties, Fatal, Non-fatal, Dwelling

Name

CSAF0052