FOI release
Freedom of Information request - FOIA Balcony fires data required
Case reference FOI2026/00957
Received 11 August 2026
Published 8 September 2026
Request
Please supply me with data relating to fires on balconies on residential buildings in your area, as follows; How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August 2025 and 31st July 2026? In the same period, how many fires occurred where balconies where found to have contributed to the spread of the fire across the external walls? Please provide data on the causes of any fires that started on balconies in the period (ie; barbecue, discarded cigarette, electrical appliance fault, etc) and please provide the number of occurrences for each cause. If your incident recording system does not include "balcony" as a recorded location, could you please perform a search on free text fields in your database for the term, as I have found in the past that this often returns useable data. Please can you also supply a count of any Balcony fire related deaths for time periods 1st August 2022 to 31st July 2023 1st August 2023 to 31st July 2024 1st August 2024 to 31st July 2025 1st August 2025 to 31st July 2026
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