False alarms in
Bromley.

20th of 33
in London.

London Fire Brigade attended 1,241 automatic fire alarm (AFA) false alarms in Bromley in 2025. That is 2.6% of the London total and places it 20th of 33 areas. They made up 30.2% of everything the Brigade attended in the borough, close to the London figure of 34.1%. The count is not adjusted for population or for the number of buildings.

The 2025 total was 67 lower than in 2024 (-5.1%). The highest year in the series was 2024, with 1,308, and the lowest was 2020, with 851.

From 1 January to 31 July 2026 the Brigade attended 786 AFA false alarms in Bromley, against 659 in the same dates of 2025 (+19.3%, a larger rise than London’s +10.0%). 2026 is a part year and should not be set against a full one.

Daytime attendance
at workplaces: -47.1%.

Since 29 October 2024 London Fire Brigade has not attended automatic fire alarms at most non-residential buildings between 07:00 and 20:30 unless a person also calls 999 to report a fire. Homes, schools, hospitals and the other premises on its exemption list still get a response at any hour.

In the year before London Fire Brigade changed its response on 29 October 2024, it attended 331 AFA false alarms at non-residential buildings in Bromley between 07:00 and 20:30. In the year after it attended 175 (-47.1%). That is a smaller fall than London’s -53.4%, and ranks 25th of the 33 areas by size of fall. Residential attendances, which the policy does not affect, rose from 852 to 885 (+3.9%) over the same two years.

Mostly homes,
not workplaces.

Homes and other residential buildings account for 942 of the 1,241 (75.9%), and non-residential buildings for 24.1%, close to the London split. The property type with the most was “Purpose Built Flats/Maisonettes - Up to 3 storeys” (185, 14.9% of the borough total), followed by “Self contained Sheltered Housing” (172). Across London the leading type is “Purpose Built Flats/Maisonettes - 4 to 9 storeys”.