Crap Towns / Bristol / Deliberate fires

How many fires get started on purpose in Bristol?

There were 12.7 deliberate fires per 10,000 people a year in Bristol from April 2023 to March 2026, 2.2 times the typical town's 5.7. The most common were other outdoor fires, at 5.4. In 2025/26 it was 13.8, up from 13.1 in 2023/24.

**Over time**
Period	Here	Typical town
2023/24	13.1	5.2
2024/25	11.1	5.4
2025/26	13.8	6.4

**What was set alight**
Fire	Here	Typical town
Other outdoor fires	5.4	1.5
Bins and rubbish set on fire	4.1	1.9
Grass, woods and crops set on fire	3.1	1.7

**Nearby towns**
Town	Distance	Fires per 10,000 people a year
Bristol	–	12.7
Keynsham	7.9 km	9.2
Filton	7.0 km	7.9
Nailsea	12.3 km	5.4
Stoke Gifford	6.9 km	5.4
Kingswood and Fishponds	6.7 km	5.2
Patchway	8.9 km	4.7
Portishead	13.0 km	4.2
Bradley Stoke	9.2 km	3.0
Long Ashton	5.6 km	2.4
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne	11.2 km	1.8
The typical town	–	5.7