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Fatal casualties in accidental dwelling fires - quarterly (949) Metric type
- Help text
- Accidental fires includes all fires where the cause was not known or unspecified. It excludes fires where the cause was ,malicious, deliberate or doubtful.
Dwellings are buildings and non-permanent structures occupied solely by households, including mobile homes, caravans, houseboats, etc. It excludes hotels, hostels and residential institutions. Caravans, boats etc. not used as a permanent dwelling are shown according to the type of property (caravan, vehicle etc.).
This data item focuses on the number of people whose death is attributed to a fire, even if death occurred weeks or months later. As death can occur some time after the event and the cause of death is not always apparent this data is subject to potential revision.
- Modified
- 21 May 2020
- Data last updated
- 14 Mar 2022
- Short label
- Fire fatalities in accidental dwelling fires - quarterly
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Count
- Dataset
- Casualties in dwelling fires - quarterly
- Collection
- Fire statistics monitors
- Source
- Home Office
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