Deliberate Fires, 2010-11

Statistics on deliberate fire incidents include data for Wales for the period 2010-11. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 26 August 2010.

Fires:

• The Welsh Fire and Rescue Services attended around 2,400 deliberate primary fires in 2010-11, a decrease of 16 per cent compared with the previous year.
• In 2010-11, 67 per cent of deliberate fires were in South Wales, 23 per cent in Mid and West Wales, and 10 per cent were in North Wales.
• Around 1 in 5 deliberate fires in 2010-11 in Wales occurred in April.

Vehicles:

• In 2010-11, there were approximately 1,200 primary fires started deliberately in vehicles, a decrease of 28 per cent compared with the previous year.
  

School fires:

• In 2010-11, there were 27 deliberate fires in schools, equating to 59 per cent of all fires in schools.

Source and Hazardous Materials:

• Furniture and furnishings were the materials first ignited in 20 per cent of deliberate primary fires in the combined figures for 2009-10 and 2010-11.
• Of the dangerous substances in deliberate primary fires in total in 2009-10 and 2010-11, 70 per cent were flammable liquids.

Casualties:

• In 2010-11, there were 2 fatal casualties and 48 nonfatal casualties in deliberate fires.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 6699
E-mail: stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

February 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)