Fire Statistics Scotland, 2001

FIRE STATISTICS SCOTLAND, 2001

Fires ^1,7 in dwellings ² and other buildings by cause, Scotland, 1992-2001	Table 10
	Fires ^1,7

Year	Cause of Fire
Year	Total	Malicious ³	Faulty fuel supplies	Faulty appliance and leads	Misuse of equipment or appliances ^4,5	Chip or fat pan fires ⁴	Playing with fire	Careless handling of fire or hot substances	Articles and heat too close ⁵	Other	Unspecified
Dwellings ²
1992	9,612	1,738	289	801	4,778	n/a	284	873	418	376	55
1993	9,786	1,636	277	789	5,086	n/a	269	857	394	423	55
1994	9,539	1,724	167	883	2,940	1,882	136	904	410	445	47
1995 ⁽⁶⁾	9,152	1,732	227	805	2,784	1,802	67	712	370	600	54
1996	9,516	1,818	281	937	2,656	2,150	83	783	433	352	23
1997	9,325	1,801	304	833	2,587	2,214	46	711	411	370	48
1998	9,154	1,738	244	890	2,518	2,211	54	690	387	379	43
1999	9,415	1,944	259	691	2,966	1,716	64	782	512	417	64
2000r	9,303	2,089	267	608	2,874	1,774	62	631	530	421	38
2001p	8,834	1,997	214	694	2,609	1,595	47	748	454	423	43
Other Buildings
1992	4,313	1,734	163	583	545	n/a	141	401	123	546	77
1993	4,270	1,716	187	607	535	n/a	112	380	128	556	49
1994	4,315	1,978	156	592	418	73	11	411	235	384	57
1995 ⁽⁶⁾	4,303	2,086	172	592	439	43	20	334	121	433	64
1996	4,259	2,019	155	818	282	42	6	365	174	375	24
1997	3,963	1,830	208	732	326	19	21	307	151	299	72
1998	3,800	1,638	215	614	383	60	-	323	161	377	29
1999	4,063	1,791	223	509	474	67	9	311	186	407	86
2000r	3,947	1,895	268	443	442	61	5	217	179	373	62
2001p	3,989	1,925	211	541	343	68	10	275	147	400	68

Including "late" call, heat and smoke damage only incidents. Not recorded prior to 1994.
² Includes caravans, houseboats and other non-building structures used solely as a permanent dwelling
³ Malicious fires include fires where malicious or deliberate ignition was merely suspected
⁴ Chip or fat pan fires were not recorded prior to 1994, previously included in 'misuse of equipment etc'
⁵ Prior to 1994 includes fires where person too close to heat/fell on fire, previously included in 'misuse of equipment'.
⁶ Data for 1995 exclude some Late call, heat and smoke damage only incidents.
⁷The figures are weighted estimates and do not necessarily sum to the independently rounded totals - see Annex Note 5.12.
^r Data for 2000 are revised.
^p Data for 2001 are provisional.

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