Publication - Statistics

Fire Statistics Scotland 2011-12

Published: 2 October 2012
ISBN: 9781782560999

Table 21: Primary fires in dwellings and other buildings by cause 2002-03 to 2011-12^p - Scotland¹

	Primary Dwelling Fires										Number
Year	Deliberate⁴	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)³	Playing with fire	Others	Unspecified	Total
2002-03²	1,761	416	605	1,614	541	181	2,261	36	*	36	7,875
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^r	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^p	1,033	429	553	347	529	306	2,510	24	404	14	6,149
	Primary Other Buildings Fires										Number
Year	Deliberate⁴	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)³	Playing with fire	Others	Unspecified	Total
2002-03²	1,742	128	203	66	586	171	283	5	*	109	3,669
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^r	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^p	858	126	162	44	438	222	417	6	435	17	2,725

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 - does not include incidents that occurred during national industrial action in November 2002, January 2003 and February 2003

3 - 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

4 - there has been a change in recording cause of fires - see paragraph 6.5.3 vi

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