Official Surrey data guide

Surrey fire statistics by district

Explore Surrey Fire and Rescue Service incidents from 2020 to 2025, compare all 11 districts and boroughs and reuse the published figures with clear source notes.

View the six-year dataset

County dataset

Six years of Surrey fire and rescue incidents

The Surrey-i downloads record all SFRS incidents rather than fires alone. Across 2020–2025 the district table contains 61,328 incidents, including 9,716 in 2025.

All incidents61,3282020–2025 district table
False alarms26,70044% of the six-year total
Fires12,90021% of the six-year total
Special-service incidents21,72835% of the six-year total

All incidents by calendar year

All SFRS incident types combined. The highest published total was 11,382 in 2022.

Six-year category totals

False alarms26,700
Fires12,900
Special-service incidents21,728

Categories are available county-wide. They cannot be assigned to individual districts from the separate district aggregate.

Operational context

Selected 2024/25 SFRS measures

These measures come from the Community Risk Profile and Statement of Assurance. They use a financial-year period and different definitions from the calendar-year CSVs above.

011,799

Calls attended as fires

027:55

Average first arrival at critical incidents

031,049

Road traffic collisions attended

046,744

Safe and Well Visits or home checks

Published property groups

Where incidents were recorded

The separate property-category table covers four named groups. It does not include every incident in the district total, so the values should not be treated as a complete property split.

Dwelling30,095
Non-residential7,438
Other residential2,460
Road vehicles9,839

Risk context

Surrey compared with England

Rates are more useful than raw counts for some comparisons, but the period and denominator must match.

Dwelling fires per 1,000 people, 2023/24

Surrey0.36
England0.44

Deliberate primary fires per 1,000 people, 2019/20–2023/24 average

Surrey0.5
England1.2

Dataset audit

What is publicly available?

Availability rechecked 25 August 2026 following Surrey-i’s publication of reusable 2020–2025 incident downloads.

Available

Community Risk Profile

County risk, incident mix, dwelling-fire rates, road, water, wildfire, flood and time-pattern analysis.

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Available

Statement of Assurance

Annual operational totals, response performance, prevention work and governance.

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Available

National FIRE data tables

Comparable incident, fire, casualty, response and prevention tables by fire and rescue authority.

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Available

Council performance reports

Periodic KPI reports and committee papers, generally as PDFs rather than a reusable data feed.

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Available

Surrey-i incident downloads

Calendar-year incident category, property category and district totals for 2020–2025 in reusable CSV files.

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Available

District and borough comparison

Annual totals for each of Surrey’s 11 districts and boroughs, published by Surrey County Council and presented in our interactive explorer.

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Local comparison now available

Explore all 11 Surrey authorities

The new district CSV provides annual totals for 2020–2025. Our dedicated page adds an interactive map, yearly trends, a complete comparison table and reusable downloads.

  1. Choose a district or borough on the Surrey map.
  2. Compare its six annual incident totals.
  3. Review the separate county-wide incident and property categories.
  4. Download the tidy district CSV or complete JSON.

Explore Surrey incidents by local authority

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Download and cite the Surrey district dataset

Download the tidy district series, copy a permanent citation or link to this guide when using the figures in council guidance, reporting or research.

Download CSVDownload JSON

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