Flooding incidents attended by the fire and rescue service - Find a freedom of information request

Request

Information on flooding incidents attended by the fire and rescue service. I would the information in relation to flooding incidents caused only by severe weather.

1. I would like the total number of flooding incidents recorded by the fire and rescue service, broken down by month, for the calendar years 2013 to 2024 (to date) 2. In a separate tab I would like details of each flooding incident.

Please include:

Date of incident

Time of day incident reported

Incident duration (minutes)

Location (please include longitude and latitude and local authority if available) Total number of buildings affected Total number of dwellings affected Total number of firefighters injured, seriously injured or killed

Decision

1. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue (LFR) data retention policy is six years plus current, data prior to 2018 is not available.

Unfortunately, there is no way to define the circumstances leading to the flooding event occurring as this information is not recorded.  The majority of these are likely to be because of severe weather events, but there will be a small number occurring because of situations in properties for other reasons.

Location data in longitude and latitude, and local authority is not held.

 

Data regarding the number of buildings affected is not held.

 

Count of Incidents

Year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Month

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Grand Total

January

3

4

6

21

1

6

56

97

February

1

1

23

8

2

2

 

37

March

9

2

5

5

4

6

 

31

April

14

 

2

4

 

1

 

21

May

4

3

2

3

5

16

 

33

June

22

165

4

4

6

3

 

204

July

19

8

1

14

6

3

 

51

August

9

18

22

2

103

2

 

156

September

3

8

7

4

6

7

 

35

October

2

34

3

3

6

180

 

228

November

1

73

3

3

17

6

 

103

December

2

12

82

4

29

8

 

137

Grand Total

89

328

160

75

185

240

56

1133

 

Reference number
8757577
Date request received
16 January 2024
Date of decision
9 February 2024