Crap Towns / Chipping Sodbury / Deliberate fires
How many fires get started on purpose in Chipping Sodbury?
There were 22.2 deliberate fires per 10,000 people a year in Chipping Sodbury from April 2023 to March 2026, 3.9 times the typical town's 5.7. The most common were grass, woods and crops set on fire, at 8.8. In 2025/26 it was 45.0, up from 9.2 in 2023/24.
That's a lot of deliberate fires for somewhere so fucking superior to Yate.
| Period | Here | Typical town |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/24 | 9.2 | 5.2 |
| 2024/25 | 12.3 | 5.4 |
| 2025/26 | 45.0 | 6.4 |
| Fire | Here | Typical town |
|---|---|---|
| Grass, woods and crops set on fire | 8.8 | 1.7 |
| Other outdoor fires | 8.5 | 1.5 |
| Bins and rubbish set on fire | 4.9 | 1.9 |
| Town | Distance | Fires per 10,000 people a year |
|---|---|---|
| Chipping Sodbury | – | 22.2 |
| Yate | 2.4 km | 14.2 |
| Keynsham | 15.9 km | 9.2 |
| Filton | 13.1 km | 7.9 |
| Stoke Gifford | 11.2 km | 5.4 |
| Kingswood and Fishponds | 10.2 km | 5.2 |
| Patchway | 13.0 km | 4.7 |
| Dursley | 16.0 km | 3.4 |
| Thornbury | 11.7 km | 3.1 |
| Bradley Stoke | 10.9 km | 3.0 |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 6.5 km | 1.8 |
| The typical town | – | 5.7 |