Welcome to the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Community Risk Management Plan for 2025–2029.

This plan outlines the key risks facing our communities and the vital services we provide to prevent, protect against, and respond to those risks. It reflects our commitment
to keeping people safe through a balanced approach to prevention and early intervention, protection (business safety), emergency response and building community resilience. Our assessment of risk informs how we allocate our staff and resources ensuring we continue to deliver our services efficiently and effectively.

Over the last four years we have made significant changes across the Service including investment in our people, equipment and our estates, introducing response standards to allow our communities to hold us to account and implementing crewing system changes at Harrogate and Huntington.

These changes reflect our ongoing commitment to adapt and improve, but there is more to do, and this plan sets out further areas of focus for development which will enable us to evolve to meet the changing needs and risks of our communities. Together, with our partners and the public, we will continue to work towards making York and North Yorkshire safer places for all.