Lithium battery fires 2016-2025

Reference

1639

Information Released

Yes

Received Date

13/03/2026 12:00 am

Responded Date

13/04/2026 12:00 am

FOI Topics

Incident and emergency response

Request detail

Please could I request data from 2016–2025 or the earliest year after 2016 data is available from for the following:

  • Total number of domestic property fires
  • Number of those fires where the ignition source was a lithium battery
  • Number of those fires linked to specific device types (if recorded)

Response detail

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. Please refer to the attached spreadsheet for the information requested where this has been recorded on our Incident Recording System.

Documents

FOI 1639
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