Crap Towns / Stoke Gifford / Deliberate fires

How many fires get started on purpose in Stoke Gifford?

There were 5.4 deliberate fires per 10,000 people a year in Stoke Gifford from April 2023 to March 2026, 5% lower than the typical town's 5.7. The most common were other outdoor fires, at 3.1. In 2025/26 it was 7.3, up from 3.5 in 2023/24.

**Over time**
Period	Here	Typical town
2023/24	3.5	5.2
2024/25	5.4	5.4
2025/26	7.3	6.4

**What was set alight**
Fire	Here	Typical town
Other outdoor fires	3.1	1.5
Bins and rubbish set on fire	1.3	1.9
Grass, woods and crops set on fire	1.1	1.7

**Nearby towns**
Town	Distance	Fires per 10,000 people a year
Chipping Sodbury	11.2 km	22.2
Yate	9.3 km	14.2
Bristol	6.9 km	12.7
Keynsham	11.2 km	9.2
Filton	2.4 km	7.9
Stoke Gifford	–	5.4
Kingswood and Fishponds	4.6 km	5.2
Patchway	3.6 km	4.7
Thornbury	11.5 km	3.1
Bradley Stoke	2.6 km	3.0
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne	4.8 km	1.8
The typical town	–	5.7