Victoria indicatorsFire department incidents
11,767 incidents a year
No target expected. This is a context measure. A count of incidents attended. Response time is the result that a standard could apply to, and it is not published as data. Targets and comparisons
This is the first figure shown in this series, so there is no change to report yet. No direction label is shown until a second one is published.
Source: City of Victoria. We read it on Nov 11, 2026.
Over time
Targets and comparisons
Context measure: no target expected
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.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,767 |
Who decides
City of Victoria Council. Decides the City’s services, including its fire department, and their budget in the financial plan. Community Charter, s. 8
Show the law and the dates
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| City of Victoria Council | Decides the City’s services, including its fire department, and their budget in the financial plan. | Community Charter, s. 8 Community Charter, s. 165 |
Councils: last general local election October 17, 2026; next on October 19, 2030, the third Saturday of October set by the Local Government Act, s. 52.
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What this number does not show
- 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.
Two more limits
- Response times are not published as data (see “Not measured yet”).
- A better measure would be: Fire response times. Not published as data. Not asked for yet.
Not measured yet in safety: response times: fire and bylaw, police response times, crime that is never reported and more. See all 17 gaps
In plain words
The number of incidents the Victoria Fire Department responded to in the year, and the share that were medical calls.
How we decide “No label yet”
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.
The City reports 11,767 incidents in 2025, 62% of them calls for medical aid, and 338 fires of all kinds.
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. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. It shows the demand on the fire department, most of which is medical aid rather than fires.
- 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”).
A better measure
- What
- Fire response times
- Who could publish it
- City of Victoria (Victoria Fire Department)
- Status
- Not published as data. Not asked for yet.
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Which places
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).
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Published by
- City of Victoria, Annual Report
- 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 17, 2026
- Retrieved
- Nov 11, 2026, 9:45 PM B.C. time
Source: City of Victoria, Annual Report. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
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