Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 19 July 2019.
How many fires at cannabis farms has LFB attended since 2009/10? Please provide this data by year.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) does not use a specific data identifier for fires at cannabis farms. Therefore, data about such fires is derived from a free text search for the term ‘cannabis farms’ in its records. The number of fires identified through this format are set out below:
Number of fires
2009/10
18
2010/11
15
2011/12
20
2012/13
26
2013/14
20
2014/15
25
2015/16
18
2016/17
26
2017/18
18
2018/19
14
2019/20* (as at 9 July 2019)
8