{
  "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. The 2024 Annual Report says of the Victoria Fire Department: “Responded to 12,199 calls for emergency services, of which 201 were reportable fires”. That counts calls for emergency services and reportable fires, not incidents and fires of all kinds, and neither report says the two counts are the same, so it is not used as an earlier figure.",
    "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/media/file/annual-report-2025",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/corporate-strategic-plan/annual-report",
    "download_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/annual-report-2025",
    "publisher_page": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/corporate-strategic-plan/annual-report",
    "page_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/annual-report-2025#page=20",
    "page": 20,
    "locator": "City of Victoria Annual Report 2025, page 20 (Fire Rescue)",
    "reads": "“Responded to 11,767 incidents”"
  },
  "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": "2026-07-17",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T04:45:54Z",
  "attribution": "Source: City of Victoria, Annual Report. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public",
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "activity",
  "better_measure": {
    "what": "Fire response times",
    "who_could_publish": "City of Victoria (Victoria Fire Department)",
    "status": "Not published as data. Not asked for yet."
  },
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "Shown for context, without a better or worse label.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": null,
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "context",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "nolabel",
    "label": "No label yet",
    "vs": null,
    "cur": "Calendar year 2025",
    "why": "There is no earlier figure in the same series to compare with yet. A direction label needs at least two comparable periods, so none is shown until a second one is published.",
    "long_why": "Only one year of incidents in the same definition is published so far."
  },
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 4,
    "rung_name": "Context measure: no target expected",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "context",
        "label": "Context measure: no target expected",
        "area": null,
        "source": null,
        "documents_checked": null,
        "text": "Context measure: no target expected. A count of incidents attended. Response time is the result that a standard could apply to, and it is not published as data."
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "no_target_expected": "A count of incidents attended. Response time is the result that a standard could apply to, and it is not published as data.",
  "benchmarks": [],
  "highest_rung": null,
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "COV",
      "name": "City of Victoria Council",
      "decides": "Decides the City’s services, including its fire department, and their budget in the financial plan.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "cc8",
          "label": "Community Charter, s. 8",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03026_02#section8"
        },
        {
          "key": "cc165",
          "label": "Community Charter, s. 165",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03026_06#section165"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "City of Victoria Council",
  "label_1y": {
    "key": "nolabel",
    "label": "No label yet"
  },
  "label_long": null,
  "target_line": {
    "form": 7,
    "text": "No target expected",
    "target": null,
    "gap": null,
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": false,
    "note": "A count of incidents attended. Response time is the result that a standard could apply to, and it is not published as data."
  }
}