Publication - Statistics

Fire Statistics Scotland 2012-13

Published: 8 October 2013
ISBN: 9781782569510

Statistical bulletin providing statistics on the incidents that Scotland's Fire and Rescue Services attended in 2012-13.

Supporting documents

Table 21: Primary fires in dwellings and other buildings by cause 2003-04 to 2012-13^p - Scotland

	Primary Dwelling Fires¹										Number
Year	Deliberate³	Placing articles too close to heat	Careless handling of fire or hot substances	Cooking - Chip/fat pan fires	Faulty appliances and leads	Faulty fuel supplies	Misuse of equipment or appliance (heat source)²	Playing with fire	Others	Unspecified	Total
2003-04	1,905	382	746	1,573	694	131	2,286	57	*	65	8,131
2004-05	1,407	384	525	957	645	218	2,466	28	*	47	7,048
2005-06	1,433	416	469	864	669	207	2,490	45	*	65	7,061
2006-07	1,369	436	503	714	677	165	2,661	41	*	45	6,963
2007-08	1,187	522	517	569	747	173	2,575	17	*	63	6,666
2008-09	1,308	412	490	509	788	139	2,594	14	*	67	6,705
2009-10	1,194	323	633	412	602	254	2,564	28	538	25	6,573
2010-11^r	1,086	370	615	346	578	254	2,511	32	480	28	6,300
2011-12^r	1,040	432	559	348	530	307	2,512	23	397	13	6,161
2012-13^p	826	394	571	320	558	295	2,371	17	463	5	5,820
	Primary Other Buildings Fires¹										Number
Year	Deliberate³	Placing articles too close to heat	Careless handling of fire or hot substances	Cooking - Chip/fat pan fires	Faulty appliances and leads	Faulty fuel supplies	Misuse of equipment or appliance (heat source)²	Playing with fire	Others	Unspecified	Total
2003-04	1,608	110	257	101	555	111	320	11	*	45	3,445
2004-05	1,356	105	155	55	605	143	314	1	*	62	3,134
2005-06	1,313	108	165	38	632	191	337	1	*	77	3,258
2006-07	1,203	114	151	19	557	167	268	7	*	62	2,887
2007-08	1,159	117	160	24	636	113	366	2	*	58	2,922
2008-09	975	112	135	8	641	139	322	1	*	51	2,630
2009-10	972	140	150	60	464	196	459	21	520	26	3,008
2010-11^r	817	139	155	54	465	210	472	6	493	27	2,838
2011-12^r	864	127	162	43	436	222	412	7	436	9	2,718
2012-13^p	682	159	146	40	380	238	316	14	402	4	2,381

Notes

p - provisional

r - revised

1 - figures before 2009-10 for primary fires are based on sample data weighted to Fire and Rescue Service totals

2 - Under IRS, the category for "Misuse of equipment or appliances" includes incidents which have been recorded as "Other cooking" a new category introduced with IRS. It is believed that the majority of these incidents were previously recorded as the misuse of cooking appliances under the FDR1 collection

3- there has been a change in recording cause of fires - see section 6.5.3 vi

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