Crap Towns / Bradley Stoke / Deliberate fires

How many fires get started on purpose in Bradley Stoke?

There were 3.0 deliberate fires per 10,000 people a year in Bradley Stoke from April 2023 to March 2026, 47% lower than the typical town's 5.7. The most common were other outdoor fires, at 1.6. In 2025/26 it was 4.0, up from 1.6 in 2023/24.

**Over time**
Period	Here	Typical town
2023/24	1.6	5.2
2024/25	3.6	5.4
2025/26	4.0	6.4

**What was set alight**
Fire	Here	Typical town
Other outdoor fires	1.6	1.5
Bins and rubbish set on fire	0.9	1.9
Grass, woods and crops set on fire	0.5	1.7

**Nearby towns**
Town	Distance	Fires per 10,000 people a year
Chipping Sodbury	10.9 km	22.2
Yate	8.8 km	14.2
Bristol	9.2 km	12.7
Filton	2.6 km	7.9
Stoke Gifford	2.6 km	5.4
Kingswood and Fishponds	6.9 km	5.2
Patchway	2.1 km	4.7
Thornbury	9.1 km	3.1
Bradley Stoke	–	3.0
Long Ashton	13.6 km	2.4
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne	4.5 km	1.8
The typical town	–	5.7