New Forest council recorded 6.5 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 41% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,361, most of them on footpaths and bridleways. Of those, 1 was a tipper-lorry load or bigger, which cost £543 to clear. It issued 852 fixed penalty notices, 20 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.