False alarms in
Camden.

In London’s
top ten.

Camden had the second highest number of automatic fire alarm (AFA) false alarms in London in 2025: 2,655, or 5.6% of the London total. They made up 44.3% of everything the Brigade attended in the borough, well above the London figure of 34.1%. The count is not adjusted for population or for the number of buildings.

The 2025 total was 114 lower than in 2024 (-4.1%). The highest year in the series was 2023, with 2,775, and the lowest was 2020, with 2,067.

From 1 January to 31 July 2026 the Brigade attended 1,491 AFA false alarms in Camden, against 1,448 in the same dates of 2025 (+3.0%, a smaller rise than London’s +10.0%). 2026 is a part year and should not be set against a full one.

Daytime attendance
at workplaces: -39.8%.

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 891 AFA false alarms at non-residential buildings in Camden between 07:00 and 20:30. In the year after it attended 536 (-39.8%). That is a smaller fall than London’s -53.4%, and ranks 31st of the 33 areas by size of fall. Residential attendances, which the policy does not affect, rose from 1,608 to 1,781 (+10.8%) over the same two years.

Mostly homes,
not workplaces.

Homes and other residential buildings account for 1,777 of the 2,655 (66.9%). Non-residential buildings account for 33.1%, a larger share than the London figure of 23.8%. The property type with the most was “Purpose Built Flats/Maisonettes - 4 to 9 storeys” (518, 19.5% of the borough total), followed by “Converted Flat/Maisonettes - 3 or more storeys” (240). The same type leads across London.