Public-data investigation

Surrey fire statistics and datasets

A clear view of what Surrey publishes, what the latest local sources say and what cannot yet be analysed at incident level.

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2024/25 snapshot

Selected verified SFRS figures

These measures come from Surrey County Council’s Community Risk Profile and Statement of Assurance. Different figures can use different periods and definitions.

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

Incident mix

How all attendances were grouped

Fires accounted for 19%, non-fire incidents 39% and fire false alarms 42% in the Community Risk Profile’s April 2024 to March 2025 analysis.

  • Fires19%
  • Non-fire incidents39%
  • Fire false alarms42%

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 checked 24 July 2026. “Not located” is not proof that the council holds no data; it means no reusable public source was found through the official routes reviewed.

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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Not located

Incident-level open ledger

No London-style public file of individual incidents with dates, categories and local geography was located in this audit.

Not located

District or borough incident API

The public risk profile contains maps and narrative, but no reusable district-level incident API was identified.

Useful next step

How a fuller Surrey dashboard could be built

A robust district-level dashboard would need a consistently defined extract with incident date, broad type, district or lower geography, property category and publication/refresh metadata. Personal or exact-location fields would not be necessary.

  1. Request a machine-readable, anonymised multi-year extract from SFRS.
  2. Agree whether release can be recurring under an open licence.
  3. Reconcile its categories against national FIRE0102 and related tables.
  4. Publish rates alongside counts when suitable population or building-stock denominators exist.

Until then, this page will link the best available official sources and avoid fabricating district rankings.

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