Crap Towns / Yate / Deliberate fires

How many fires get started on purpose in Yate?

There were 14.2 deliberate fires per 10,000 people a year in Yate from April 2023 to March 2026, 2.5 times the typical town's 5.7. The most common were grass, woods and crops set on fire, at 5.2. In 2025/26 it was 15.2, up from 10.5 in 2023/24.

**Over time**
Period	Here	Typical town
2023/24	10.5	5.2
2024/25	17.0	5.4
2025/26	15.2	6.4

**What was set alight**
Fire	Here	Typical town
Grass, woods and crops set on fire	5.2	1.7
Bins and rubbish set on fire	4.6	1.9
Other outdoor fires	4.4	1.5

**Nearby towns**
Town	Distance	Fires per 10,000 people a year
Chipping Sodbury	2.4 km	22.2
Yate	–	14.2
Bristol	15.4 km	12.7
Keynsham	15.7 km	9.2
Filton	11.1 km	7.9
Stoke Gifford	9.3 km	5.4
Kingswood and Fishponds	9.3 km	5.2
Patchway	10.8 km	4.7
Thornbury	9.6 km	3.1
Bradley Stoke	8.8 km	3.0
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne	4.5 km	1.8
The typical town	–	5.7