The total number of domestic property fires

Request

1) Please could I request data from 2016-2025 or the earliest year after 2016 data is available from for the following:

a) Total number of domestic property fires

b) Number of those fires where the ignition source was a lithium battery

c) Number of those fires linked to specific device types (if recorded)

Decision

1a)

 

No. of incidents

2019

361

2020

353

2021

356

2022

329

2023

312

2024

356

2025

350

Grand Total

2417

 NB: this is the number of primary fires in dwellings, this does not include chimney fires in dwellings or secondary fires in derelict dwellings

b)

 

No. of incidents

2019

1

2022

1

2023

3

2024

6

2025

2

Grand Total

13

NB: this is based on a wildcard search of free-text fields and therefore may not be accurate due to differing terminology and different spelling that can't all be accounted for       

c) This information is not recorded

 

Reference number
FOI 15843193
Date request received
13/03/26
Date of decision
13/04/26