Official London Fire Brigade open data
London fire safety data by borough
Compare recorded fires, regulatory outcomes, pump mobilisations, response times, home visits and clearly dated fatal-fire context across all 33 London authorities.
Explore the borough mapBorough profiles
Find local London fire-safety data
Select a borough to preview it here, then open its permanent, indexable profile URL. The figures describe recorded LFB activity and must not be treated as a safety rating for a borough, building or provider.
Interactive borough map
Explore recorded London Fire Brigade activity
Switch between six published measures and select any borough. Colour shows the relative spread of that measure only—it is not a fire-risk or safety ranking.
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Showing recorded fires for calendar year 2025.
Product updated 30 July 2026; source snapshot 25 July 2026. Fire data: London Fire Brigade open data. Borough geometry: Greater London Authority.
Selected borough
Barking and Dagenham fire-safety profile
A transparent summary derived from official LFB open data.
Interactive trend
Recorded fires by calendar year
Compare the selected borough with the average across all 33 London authorities.
Period total—
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Choose a year or focus a bar to see its comparison.
Regulatory activity
Recorded outcomes in 2025
- Premises broadly compliant
- 65
- Premises non-compliant
- 16
- Notices of deficiencies
- 10
- Formal-action outcomes
- 5
Outcome rows describe recorded LFB activity. They are not percentages of all premises in the borough and should not be added together as though they were mutually exclusive inspections.
Side-by-side tool
Compare two London boroughs
Compare like-for-like measures while retaining each reporting period. Differences in raw counts are not evidence that one borough or fire service area is safer.
Response measures use valid first-pump records. Fatal-fire figures use the older 2018–2022 Fire Facts publication and are not current-year totals.
Postcode to borough lookup
Find the correct London data profile
Enter a full UK postcode to look up its current administrative district, then continue to the matching borough profile if it is one of the 33 London authorities.
The postcode is sent to the Postcodes.io lookup service only when you press the button. It is not added to an enquiry or stored by this page.
London at a glance
What LFB attended in 2025
Incident records can be revised after initial publication. These figures reflect the workbook available on the extraction date.
All recorded incidents
Fires
False alarms
Special services
Incident mix
All recorded incidents
2025
- False alarms45%
- Special services41%
- Fires14%
Seasonal pattern
Fires by month
1,261Jan
1,053Feb
1,570Mar
1,983Apr
2,120May
2,117Jun
2,138Jul
2,054Aug
1,445Sep
1,435Oct
1,267Nov
1,201Dec
Borough comparison
Ten highest recorded fire counts
Counts are not adjusted for population, land area, visitor numbers, building stock or incident exposure. Westminster’s daytime and visitor population, for example, differs substantially from a mainly residential borough.
Westminster939
Newham887
Greenwich791
Bromley787
Croydon786
Brent773
Ealing758
Hillingdon735
Enfield734
Barnet705
Where fires occurred
Property category recorded by LFB
Outdoor and outdoor-structure incidents make up a large share of all fires. The categories describe the incident record, not the cause or severity.
Property-specific datasets
Go beyond broad incident categories
Each collection uses transparent LFB property-type definitions, five complete years and interactive London-authority comparisons.
Workplaces and retailOffices, shops, retail warehouses and customer-service premises →Residential and sleeping premisesHouses, flats, HMOs, sheltered, student and hostel settings →Hospitality and venuesRestaurants, takeaways, pubs, hotels and event premises →Education and careSchools, nurseries, colleges, care and healthcare premises →Industrial and constructionManufacturing, processing, warehouses, storage and workshops →
All boroughs
2025 fire count table
Search the table or download the complete derived borough dataset for independent analysis.
| Rank | Borough | Recorded fires | Share of London fires | Permanent profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westminster | 939 | 4.8% | Open profile |
| 2 | Newham | 887 | 4.5% | Open profile |
| 3 | Greenwich | 791 | 4.0% | Open profile |
| 4 | Bromley | 787 | 4.0% | Open profile |
| 5 | Croydon | 786 | 4.0% | Open profile |
| 6 | Brent | 773 | 3.9% | Open profile |
| 7 | Ealing | 758 | 3.9% | Open profile |
| 8 | Hillingdon | 735 | 3.7% | Open profile |
| 9 | Enfield | 734 | 3.7% | Open profile |
| 10 | Barnet | 705 | 3.6% | Open profile |
| 11 | Havering | 705 | 3.6% | Open profile |
| 12 | Lambeth | 702 | 3.6% | Open profile |
| 13 | Southwark | 700 | 3.6% | Open profile |
| 14 | Tower Hamlets | 685 | 3.5% | Open profile |
| 15 | Barking and Dagenham | 679 | 3.5% | Open profile |
| 16 | Haringey | 676 | 3.4% | Open profile |
| 17 | Hounslow | 652 | 3.3% | Open profile |
| 18 | Waltham Forest | 643 | 3.3% | Open profile |
| 19 | Redbridge | 618 | 3.1% | Open profile |
| 20 | Hackney | 600 | 3.1% | Open profile |
| 21 | Lewisham | 581 | 3.0% | Open profile |
| 22 | Camden | 573 | 2.9% | Open profile |
| 23 | Bexley | 563 | 2.9% | Open profile |
| 24 | Islington | 504 | 2.6% | Open profile |
| 25 | Wandsworth | 482 | 2.5% | Open profile |
| 26 | Harrow | 408 | 2.1% | Open profile |
| 27 | Hammersmith and Fulham | 384 | 2.0% | Open profile |
| 28 | Merton | 348 | 1.8% | Open profile |
| 29 | Sutton | 320 | 1.6% | Open profile |
| 30 | Richmond upon Thames | 286 | 1.5% | Open profile |
| 31 | Kingston upon Thames | 282 | 1.4% | Open profile |
| 32 | Kensington and Chelsea | 277 | 1.4% | Open profile |
| 33 | City of London | 81 | 0.4% | Open profile |
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Data provenance
Five official LFB publications
Every derived measure can be traced to a published London Datastore resource. Coverage periods differ, so each figure is labelled with its applicable year or years.
LFB Incident Records
Recorded fires and leading property category, Calendar years 2021–2025
- Update cycle
- Monthly source publication
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v2
Regulatory fire safety inspections and audits
Audits and recorded regulatory outcomes, Calendar year 2025
- Update cycle
- Monthly source publication
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3
LFB Mobilisation Records
Pump mobilisations, turnout, travel and attendance time, Calendar year 2025
- Update cycle
- Monthly source publication
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v2
Home Fire Safety Visits by London Borough
Completed home fire-safety visits, Financial year 2024/25
- Update cycle
- Quarterly source publication
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution
Fatal fires in Greater London – Fire Facts 2022
Fire deaths and fires with a fire-related fatality, Calendar years 2018–2022
- Update cycle
- Historical publication; last available edition used
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3
Method and limitations
How the borough profiles were produced
Incident records were filtered to records categorised by LFB as “Fire”. Audit counts use records with an “Audit” outcome completed in 2025. Formal actions combine recorded enforcement, alteration, restriction and prohibition outcomes. Mobilisation measures use 2025 records; first-appliance turnout, travel and attendance calculations exclude null and zero values. Home-visit totals use the published 2024/25 financial-year total. Fatal-fire measures use the latest reusable borough workbook, ending in 2022.
- Records can be corrected or reclassified after this snapshot.
- Raw counts are not rates and should not be used as a league table of safety.
- Outcome rows do not necessarily represent separate premises or mutually exclusive inspections.
- Average attendance time is descriptive and is not presented as an LFB performance measure.
- The 90th percentile is the recorded attendance time at or below which approximately 90% of valid first-pump records fell.
- LFB’s cited publications do not provide one reusable low/medium/high borough classification, so this site does not invent a borough risk score.
- Fatal-fire data is historical and must not be relabelled as a 2025 or current total.
- An attended incident or recorded audit outcome does not establish the current compliance of any particular premises.
Source snapshot extracted: 25 July 2026. Data product updated: 30 July 2026. When reusing the data, cite this page and the relevant underlying LFB dataset.
Citation and reuse guidance for councils, journalists and researchers
Monthly change record
What changed in this data product
New source snapshots and methodology changes are recorded separately so a reader can tell whether a figure changed or the presentation was expanded.
Stable profiles and expanded response context
- Published 33 permanent borough profile URLs with borough-specific trends, audit outcomes and premises context.
- Added 2025 pump mobilisation, average turnout, travel, mean attendance and 90th-percentile attendance measures.
- Added clearly dated 2018–2022 fatal-fire measures from the latest reusable borough publication.
- Added current CSV and JSON downloads, individual borough downloads, SVG charts and a dated archive.
Initial four-source borough snapshot
- Derived 2021–2025 recorded-fire trends and 2025 leading property categories.
- Derived 2025 regulatory activity and 2024/25 home fire-safety visits.
- Published the first all-borough dashboard and CSV download.
Reproducible citations
Dated dataset archives
The current files can change when official sources are refreshed. Archive links preserve the derived snapshot used by an existing report or article.
33 boroughs · CSV and JSON · periods vary by measure
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