- Request
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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
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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