Fire incidents attended by Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service

Please provide the following information for all fire incidents attended by Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service between:

1 January 2017 and 31 December 2025

If 2025 data is incomplete or not yet finalised, please provide the latest available data and indicate the date range covered.

1) REQUESTED DATASET

Please provide one row per incident, where held, with the following fields:

Incident_ID_Pseudonymised

Related_Primary_Incident_ID

Incident_Link_Type

Incident_Date_Time

Fire_Category

Primary_Fire_Subcategory

Property_Type

Premises_Type

Domestic_or_NonDomestic

Motive

Cause_Category

Source_of_Ignition

Item_First_Ignited

Main_Item_Responsible_For_Spread

Relevant_Technology

Subcategory

Confirmed_or_Suspected

Cause_Role

Postcode_Unit

LAD_Code

Easting_Rounded_1km

Northing_Rounded_1km

Injuries

Fatalities

Rescues

Evacuations

Damage_Extent

Number_of_Appliances_Attending

Incident_Duration_Minutes

2) FIELD DESCRIPTIONS

Please interpret these fields as follows, or provide the closest equivalent fields held in your incident recording system.

Incident_ID_Pseudonymised:

A non-identifying incident reference. Please do not provide original incident numbers if these are considered sensitive.

Related_Primary_Incident_ID:

Where held, a pseudonymised identifier linking a secondary fire, reignition, duplicate, or related incident to a primary fire or wider incident.

Incident_Link_Type:

The relationship between linked incidents, for example secondary linked to primary fire, reignition/repeat attendance, duplicate/merged incident, same event/multi-incident scene, exposure fire/spread from another incident, or not linked.

Incident_Date_Time:

Date and time of the incident, where disclosable. If exact time is too granular, please provide incident date only, month/year, or a broad time band.

Fire_Category:

Primary fire, secondary fire, chimney fire, or closest equivalent.

Primary_Fire_Subcategory:

Dwelling, other building, road vehicle, other outdoor, not applicable, or closest equivalent.

Property_Type:

Broad property or location type.

Premises_Type:

More specific premises description, where held.

Domestic_or_NonDomestic:

Domestic, non-domestic, vehicle, outdoor, or unknown.

Motive:

Accidental, deliberate, unknown, or closest equivalent.

Cause_Category:

Broad cause category, as recorded.

Source_of_Ignition:

Recorded source of ignition, where held.

Item_First_Ignited:

First item or material ignited, where held.

Main_Item_Responsible_For_Spread:

Main item responsible for fire spread, where held.

Relevant_Technology:

Any recorded involvement of solar PV, battery storage, lithium-ion batteries, electric vehicles, e-bikes, e-scooters, mobility scooters, vapes, power banks, power tools, waste/recycling batteries, or other relevant emerging technologies. If none is identified,

please mark as "None identified".

Subcategory:

More specific technology/product/component involved, where relevant.

Confirmed_or_Suspected:

Whether the technology involvement was confirmed, suspected, mentioned only, not applicable, or unknown.

Cause_Role:

Whether the technology was the cause of fire, suspected cause, item first ignited, source of ignition, contributing factor, present but not causal, exposed to fire, not applicable, or unknown.

Postcode_Unit:

Full postcode unit, where disclosure is permitted.

LAD_Code:

Local Authority District code for the incident location.

Easting_Rounded_1km:

British National Grid easting rounded to the nearest 1km.

Northing_Rounded_1km:

British National Grid northing rounded to the nearest 1km.

Injuries:

Number of recorded injuries.

Fatalities:

Number of recorded fatalities.

Rescues:

Number of recorded rescues, where held.

Evacuations:

Number of people evacuated, where held.

Damage_Extent:

Recorded extent of fire damage or spread, where held.

Number_of_Appliances_Attending:

Number of fire appliances attending, where held.

Incident_Duration_Minutes:

Incident duration in minutes, where held.

 

3) GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

For each incident, please provide the most granular geographic identifier that can be disclosed.

My preference order is:

1. postcode unit;

2. Local Authority District code;

3. rounded easting and northing coordinates to the nearest 1km.

I do not require full addresses, house numbers, street names, occupier names, exact coordinates, names of individuals, original incident numbers, or any other directly identifying personal information.

If postcode unit is considered too granular for disclosure, please provide LAD_Code and Easting_Rounded_1km / Northing_Rounded_1km instead.



RELEVANT TECHNOLOGY CLASSIFICATION

Where your records identify or mention relevant technologies, please classify them using your own recorded categories where available. Technologies of interest include, but are not limited to:

Solar PV

Battery energy storage system

Lithium-ion battery

Electric vehicle

E-bike

E-scooter

Mobility scooter

Power tool battery

Mobile phone / tablet / laptop battery

Vape / e-cigarette battery

Power bank

Waste / recycling battery

Industrial battery system

Unknown rechargeable battery

Other technology

None identified

Unknown

Relevant subcategories may include, where held:

Domestic rooftop solar PV

Commercial rooftop solar PV

Ground-mounted solar PV

Solar farm

Solar inverter

Solar panel / module

DC isolator

DC cabling / connector

Solar PV battery storage

Domestic battery energy storage system

Commercial battery energy storage system

Grid-scale battery energy storage system

E-bike battery

E-bike charger

E-bike conversion kit

E-scooter battery

E-scooter charger

Electric vehicle battery

Mobility scooter battery

Power tool battery

Garden tool battery

Laptop battery

Mobile phone battery

Tablet battery

Vape / disposable vape

Power bank

Battery charger

Loose battery cells

Battery in waste bin

Battery in refuse vehicle

Battery at recycling centre

Unknown battery product

Other

Unknown

If these are not held as structured fields, please do not manually classify every incident. Instead, please provide any relevant structured cause, source of ignition, item first ignited, and free-text-search-derived indicators that are reasonably retrievable within the statutory cost limit.

4) LINKED INCIDENTS

Where an incident is recorded as linked to another incident, please provide a pseudonymised linked incident identifier.

In particular, where a secondary fire is recorded as associated with, caused by, or linked to a primary fire, please provide the pseudonymised primary fire incident ID in Related_Primary_Incident_ID.

If this linkage is not held in a structured format, please mark the field as "Not held" rather than manually deriving it.

5) FORMAT REQUESTED

Please provide the data in CSV or Excel format.

If possible, please include a brief data dictionary explaining any local codes or categories used.

6) COST-LIMIT ADVICE

If providing incident-level data for all fire incidents would exceed the statutory cost limit, please provide advice and assistance on how the request could be refined.

In that case, I would be grateful if you could prioritise one of the following options:

1. provide incident-level data only for incidents involving or mentioning the relevant technologies listed above; and/or

2. provide all other fire incidents in aggregated form by year, LAD code, fire category, property type, motive, cause category, injuries and fatalities; and/or

3. provide a reduced date range, beginning with the most recent complete year of data.

Please let me know if any part of the request requires clarification.

1-6) Please see attached spreadsheet, as per the request.

Please note that data is only available from 01/01/2019 onwards.

Should you require the attachment mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.