Crap Towns / Keynsham / Deliberate fires

How many fires get started on purpose in Keynsham?

There were 9.2 deliberate fires per 10,000 people a year in Keynsham from April 2023 to March 2026, 1.6 times the typical town's 5.7. The most common were other outdoor fires, at 4.2. In 2025/26 it was 2.5, down from 19.0 in 2023/24.

**Over time**
Period	Here	Typical town
2023/24	19.0	5.2
2024/25	6.2	5.4
2025/26	2.5	6.4

**What was set alight**
Fire	Here	Typical town
Other outdoor fires	4.2	1.5
Bins and rubbish set on fire	2.8	1.9
Grass, woods and crops set on fire	2.3	1.7

**Nearby towns**
Town	Distance	Fires per 10,000 people a year
Bristol	7.9 km	12.7
Keynsham	–	9.2
Filton	12.8 km	7.9
Radstock	13.7 km	7.7
Bath	9.7 km	5.5
Stoke Gifford	11.2 km	5.4
Kingswood and Fishponds	7.2 km	5.2
Paulton	11.6 km	4.6
Long Ashton	11.7 km	2.4
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne	13.1 km	1.8
Peasedown St John	11.5 km	1.0
The typical town	–	5.7