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Fire department incidents

Public, not open-licensedArea: City of Victoria Calendar year 2025 · Where this covers

11,767 incidents a year

For context

62% were medical aid calls; 338 were fires

Source: City of Victoria, 2025 · Full source

What it measures

The number of incidents the Victoria Fire Department responded to in the year, and the share that were medical calls.

Why it matters

It shows the demand on the fire department, most of which is medical aid rather than fires.

Over time

Reading this page

Shown for context, without a “better” or “worse” label: incident counts reflect need as well as service. The City reports 11,767 incidents in 2025, 62% of them calls for medical aid, and 338 fires of all kinds. The rules.

Source

Period
Calendar year 2025
Licence
Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
Updated by agency
Annually (audited report published mid-year); latest release Jul 1, 2025
Retrieved
Nov 11, 2026, 1:25 AM B.C. time

Source: City of Victoria, Annual Report. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.

Text checked in the agency’s document

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  • Responded to 11,767 incidents, with 62 per cent of
  • of 338 calls spanning outdoor
Show the numbers as a table
Fire department incidents, City of Victoria (newest first)
PeriodValue
202511,767

Keep in mind

  • 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”).

Where this covers

Area: City of Victoria

The City of Victoria municipality only, all neighbourhoods.

Included

  • All City of Victoria neighbourhoods, including Downtown, James Bay, Fairfield, Fernwood, Oaklands, Hillside/Quadra, North Park, Burnside, Victoria West, Rockland, Jubilee and Gonzales

Not included

  • Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, Langford and every other municipality in the region

Official definition

How the agency describes it: City of Victoria (municipality).

Connected to: Municipal (Victoria Fire Department). This is a label, not a judgement.