Fire incidents API Reference
Daily incident counts published by MHCLG for fire and rescue services in England.
Daily incidents
Returns newest-first daily counts for analysts and local public-safety applications. Use it to compare dwelling fires across authorities or build an annual incident trend.
/v1/fire/daily-incidents
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Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
financial_year |
string | No | — | Financial year as YYYY/YY. |
frs_code |
string | No | — | Case-insensitive fire and rescue authority E-code. |
frs_name |
string | No | — | Exact authority name, case-insensitive. |
incident_type |
string | No | — | Exact published FRIS incident type. |
from |
date | No | — | Inclusive YYYY-MM-DD lower bound. |
to |
date | No | — | Inclusive YYYY-MM-DD upper bound. |
page |
integer | No | 1 | One-based page. |
per_page |
integer | No | 25 | Rows per page, maximum 100. |
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" "https://api.govdata.dev/v1/fire/daily-incidents?financial_year=2025%2F26&frs_code=E31000001&incident_type=Dwellings&per_page=1"
uri = URI("https://api.govdata.dev/v1/fire/daily-incidents?financial_year=2025%2F26&frs_code=E31000001&incident_type=Dwellings&per_page=1")\nNet::HTTP.get_response(uri)
requests.get("https://api.govdata.dev/v1/fire/daily-incidents", params={"financial_year":"2025/26","frs_code":"E31000001","incident_type":"Dwellings","per_page":1}, headers={"Authorization":"Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"})
await fetch("https://api.govdata.dev/v1/fire/daily-incidents?financial_year=2025%2F26&frs_code=E31000001&incident_type=Dwellings&per_page=1", {headers:{Authorization:"Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}});
Response
{"data":[{"date":"2026-03-31","financial_year":"2025/26","fire_and_rescue_authority":{"name":"Avon","code":"E31000001"},"incident_type":"Dwellings","incident_count":1}],"meta":{"api_version":"v1","licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0","source":"Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government","source_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-statistics-incident-level-datasets","dataset":"Daily incidents dataset 2023-24 to present","incident_total":268,"last_updated":"2026-03-31","coverage":{"from":"2025-04-01","to":"2026-03-31"}},"pagination":{"total":553,"page":1,"per_page":1,"total_pages":553}}
Rows aggregate identical published incident records by date, authority and type; incident_count preserves their multiplicity. This example was captured locally after the live 2025/26 import and must be re-captured after the production load.
Errors
400 is returned for malformed dates. Authentication can return 404 for an unknown route and 422 for an invalid request body; this GET collection has no record-specific 404 or semantic 422 branch.
{"error":{"code":"invalid_parameter","message":"from and to must be ISO 8601 dates (YYYY-MM-DD).","documentation_url":"https://docs.govdata.dev/errors/invalid_parameter"}}
Data notes
England, financial years 2010/11 onward; refreshed annually. Source: MHCLG incident-level datasets, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and types reproduce the workbook. Counts are disclosure-controlled published records and should not be treated as emergency-service operational data.