Crap Towns / Cowdenbeath / Deliberate fires

How many fires get started on purpose in Cowdenbeath?

There were 55.9 deliberate fires per 10,000 people a year in Cowdenbeath from April 2023 to March 2026, 2.5 times the typical Scottish town's 22.3. The most common were bins and rubbish set on fire, at 28.0. In 2025/26 it was 47.4, down from 61.7 in 2023/24.

**Over time**
Period	Here	Typical Scottish town
2023/24	61.7	22.6
2024/25	58.6	20.4
2025/26	47.4	19.0

**What was set alight**
Fire	Here	Typical Scottish town
Bins and rubbish set on fire	28.0	8.2
Grass, woods and crops set on fire	14.1	6.2
Other outdoor fires	13.9	5.0

**Nearby towns**
Town	Distance	Fires per 10,000 people a year
Lochgelly	3.5 km	62.8
Cowdenbeath	–	55.9
Kelty	3.7 km	49.8
Kirkcaldy	11.9 km	40.8
Cardenden	7.1 km	34.3
Ballingry	5.7 km	31.5
Dunfermline	6.6 km	25.6
Inverkeithing	8.8 km	24.8
Burntisland	9.0 km	24.5
Rosyth	9.8 km	13.1
Dalgety Bay	7.9 km	3.9
The typical Scottish town	–	22.3