{
  "geography": "City of Victoria (municipality)",
  "scope": "city",
  "levels": [
    "Municipal (Victoria Fire Department)"
  ],
  "period": "Calendar year 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "trend": "context",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (audited report published mid-year)",
  "id": "fire-incidents",
  "category": "Safety",
  "title": "Fire department incidents",
  "plain_question": "How many incidents did the Victoria Fire Department respond to in the year, and what were they?",
  "value": 11767,
  "display_value": "11,767",
  "unit": "incidents in the year",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "2025",
    "previous_value": 11767,
    "change_percent": null
  },
  "since_text": "62% were medical aid calls; 338 were fires",
  "trend_basis": "The City reports 11,767 incidents in 2025, 62% of them calls for medical aid, and 338 fires of all kinds.",
  "right_direction": "Shown for context, without a “better” or “worse” label: incident counts reflect need as well as service.",
  "caveats": [
    "One year only: the Annual Report gives the figure as text, and earlier years are not published in the same form, so no trend is shown.",
    "Response times are not published as data (see “Not measured yet”)."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 11767
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "City of Victoria, Annual Report",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/corporate-strategic-plan/annual-report",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/corporate-strategic-plan/annual-report",
    "download_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/annual-report-2025"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/legal-disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "Responded to 11,767 incidents, with 62 per cent of",
    "of 338 calls spanning outdoor"
  ],
  "data_published": "2025-07-01",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T08:25:36Z",
  "attribution": "Source: City of Victoria, Annual Report. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public"
}