Fire Statistics Scotland, 2001

FIRE STATISTICS SCOTLAND, 2001

Fires ¹ by location, detail for outdoor fires, Scotland 1992-2001	Table 3
	Fires

Year	Total	Primary outdoor fires ^1,2											Secondary Fires
Year	Total	Total outdoor fires ⁵	Derelict buildings	Outdoor storage	Outdoor machinery and equipment	Road vehicles ³	Caravans	Ships and boats	Railway rolling stock	Derelict Vehicles ³	Grassland, crops, woods etc.	Other or unspecified	Total Secondary fires	Derelict buildings	Grassland, heath land etc.	Intentional straw and stubble burning	Single tree / Outdoor structure	Refuse, refuse containers	Derelict vehicles
1992	30,442	6,998	20	155	446	5,766	106	48	10	n/a	188	259	23,444	1,398	4,508	110	691	16,522	215
1993	34,189	6,482	24	175	459	5,280	96	46	8	n/a	139	255	27,707	1,448	4,108	175	859	20,885	232
1994	40,830	5,857	20	192	429	4,629	56	38	-	1	227	264	34,973	1,858	9,751	130	996	22,088	150
1995 ⁽⁴⁾	41,322	5,954	33	145	397	4,679	110	75	9	-	259	246	35,368	1,876	10,412	281	1,355	21,315	129
1996	42,424	5,806	26	130	302	4,759	113	69	6	-	215	186	36,618	1,763	12,088	209	1,107	21,060	391
1997	32,756	5,586	13	157	318	4,586	98	53	24	187	151		27,170	1,409	5,693	216	881	18,483	488
1998	28,581	5,920	15	142	287	5,078	120	42	17	-	110	109	22,661	1,422	3,771	409	972	15,383	704
1999	35,697	7,178	11	218	334	6,085	161	17	1	-	153	199	28,519	1,560	5,621	163	817	19,210	1,148
2000r	39,373	6,941	14	197	268	6,003	143	36	-	-	123	157	32,432	1,566	7,508	238	1,039	20,954	1,127
2001p	43,159	6,930	14	273	309	5,706	126	59	9	-	150	284	36,229	1,724	8,422	113	897	23,876	1,197

Including "late" call, heat and smoke damage only incidents. Not recorded prior to 1994.
² Figures for 1994 and later years are based on sample data weighted to the brigade totals. These wighted estimates do not necessarily sum to the independently rounded totals - see Annex Note 5.12
³ Derelict vehicles were recorded under "other vehicles" prior to 1994, and as such any fires in derelict vehicles before 1994 are recorded in the "Road vehicles" column
⁴ Data for 1995 excludes a number of Late call, heat and smoke damage only incidents
n/a Not applicable
^r Data for 2000 are revised.
^p Data for 2001 are provisional.

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