Fire services; fires, victims and rescues, employees, costs 1985-2013
Explanation of symbols
Dataset is not available.
This table contains information about activities by the municipal fire brigades. The information concerns:
- the number of fires the fire brigade turned out for
- the number of victims due to these fires
- the number of people rescued from these fires
- the number of fires with damage and the amount of financial damage (1985 up to 1993)
- the number of employees of the fire brigade (up to 2006)
- the amount of fire fighting equipment (up to 2004)
- the expenditures by municipalities for the fire brigade.
For fires, there is a registration of departure, driving and response times and a distinction between chimney fires, indoor and outdoor fires. The fires are separated by object of location (e.g. residential buildings, office buildings, verges).
For the year 2008, no information is available about both fire and assistance reports in the provinces Noord-Holland, Friesland, the regions North of the Netherlands and West of the Netherlands.
For the year 2009, no information is available about both fire and assistance reports in the Provinces Noord-Holland, Flevoland, the regions East Netherlands and West Netherlands.
Furthermore, there is no data available on fires in residential buildings in 2009.
The amount of financial damage is not available from 1994 onwards. The figures about the amount of damage per object type were not reliable. Because of technical reasons not all the regional breakdowns are available at this moment.
Data available from 1985 to 2013.
Status of the figures:
The data are final.
Changes as of: 6 January 2017:
The data on 2013 are final and the table has been discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable.
This table is replaced by the following tables:'Branden en hulpverleningen; meldingen bij de brandweermeldkamer, regio', 'Branden en hulpverleningen; alarmering van de brandweer, regio' en 'Branden; reactietijden van de brandweer, regio' (only in Dutch). See section 3 for links to relevant tables.
Description topics
- Fires
- Indoor fires
- An indoor fire is a fire in a more or less confined space, for example in
buildings.- Object of indoor fires
- Residential buildings
- Other dwellings
- Flat, house with a porch, block of flats with an entrance hall,
maisonette, a detached house, gallery flat, high-rise flat and villa.- Number of fires
- With damage
- Damage is the direct financial damage by fire.
- Amount of damage
- If damage has been reported, but the amount of damage is unknown, the
amount is estimated by Statistics Netherlands.
- Other residential buildings
- Elderly home, student apartments, relief centre, a surrogate family home,
boarding house, caravan, houseboat, asylum seekers' centre.- Number of fires
- With damage
- Damage is the direct financial damage by fire.
- Amount of damage
- If damage has been reported, but the amount of damage is unknown, the
amount is estimated by Statistics Netherlands.
- Other
- Empty buildings, building due for demolition and unknown.
- Number of fires
- With damage
- Damage is the direct financial damage by fire.
- Amount of damage
- If damage has been reported, but the amount of damage is unknown, the
amount is estimated by Statistics Netherlands.
- Cause of indoor fires
- Other
- For example bold of lightning, accident.
- Number of fires
- With damage
- Damage is the direct financial damage by fire.
- Amount of damage
- If damage has been reported, but the amount of damage is unknown, the
amount is estimated by Statistics Netherlands.
- Outdoor fires
- An outdoor fire is a fire in the open air, by which no buildings are
involved.- Object of outdoor fires
- Other vehicles
- Company cars, loading cars.
- Number of fires
- With damage
- Damage is the direct financial damage by fire.
- Amount of damage
- If damage has been reported, but the amount of damage is unknown, the
amount is estimated by Statistics Netherlands.
- Other industry
- Number of fires
- With damage
- Damage is the direct financial damage by fire.
- Amount of damage
- If damage has been reported, but the amount of damage is unknown, the
amount is estimated by Statistics Netherlands.
- Other
- Number of fires
- With damage
- Damage is the direct financial damage by fire.
- Amount of damage
- If damage has been reported, but the amount of damage is unknown, the
amount is estimated by Statistics Netherlands.
- Cause of outdoor fire
- Other
- Number of fires
- With damage
- Damage is the direct financial damage by fire.
- Amount of damage
- If damage has been reported, but the amount of damage is unknown, the
amount is estimated by Statistics Netherlands.
- Employees of fire brigade
- Employees of municipal fire brigades as of 1 January of the reporting
year. A distinction is made between operational and other employees.- Other employees
- Total other employees
- Employees pro-action/prevention
- Employees occupied with preparation and prevention activities.
- Other non-operational employees
- Administrative employees.