NFRS 2022 114 - Vehicle fires

You asked for:

I am currently researching for my fire service sponsored dissertation, see letter attached, and would be grateful if you could supply me with some statistics. This data relates to Vehicle Fires.

Our Response:

1. Number of Vehicle Fires for the following time periods
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22

   	2019/2020	2020/2021	2021/2022
   Vehicle fires	426	372	408
   Vehicle fires within public car parks	0	0	0
   Fires within domestic garages	7	6	6
   Fires within domestic garages confirmed as vehicle origin	0	0	0

2. Fuel source of involved vehicle
   • 2019/20
   • 2020/21
   • 2021/22

   	Vehicle fires	Petrol	Diesel	E/V	Other/Unknown
   2019/2020	426
   2020/2021	372
   2021/2022	408

   Please be advised our current incident recording system does not break the data down by vehicle type so we do not hold the requested information.