Community Risk Management Plan 2025 – 2030

Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (HWFRS) is preparing the Service’s strategic plan for 2025-2030, which is known as the Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP).

The CRMP is designed to enable the Service to assess all foreseeable fire and rescue related risks, while ensuring it continues to fulfil the legislative requirements placed upon it. The objective of the CRMP is to ensure the appropriate allocation of available resources aligned to Response, Protection and Prevention functions, and to utilise these resources in the most efficient manner to mitigate risk and improve community safety.

Watch the video introduction to our CRMP 2025 – 2030

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Public Consultation Process is Now Open

We are pleased to share with you our draft CRMP for 2025-2030 and invite you to give us your feedback. All comments will be considered carefully and will help assist us in shaping the final document.

A number of supporting documents have also been prepared to provide further background information on the identification and assessment of risks in the CRMP report. Links to these and the draft CRMP can be found below.

Your views can be shared by completing an online questionnaire which is being facilitated by ORS (an independent specialist social research practice) who will also provide an impartial analysis of all responses. The consultation report and any changes to the CRMP will be reported to the Fire Authority to gain final approval, prior to publication in October 2025.

Go to questionnaire

Click on the link below to read a draft version of our Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP) 2025 – 2030.

Read the draft CRMP

We have also published a summary guide to accompany our main CRMP which provides an overview for each of the main sections.

To read the ‘Summary of Our Community Risk Management Plan 2025 – 2030’ click on the link below.

Read the Summary of Our CRMP

CRMP Supporting Documents

The following reports give further background information on the identification and assessment of risks outlined in the CRMP report.

Service Definitions of Risk: Domestic Dwelling Fire

Our assessment of the likelihood and consequences of dwelling fires across Herefordshire and Worcestershire using the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) risk methodology.

Read the Domestic Dwelling Fire Risk report

Service Definitions of Risk: Other Building Fire Risk

Our assessment of the likelihood and consequences of Other Building Fires across the two counties using the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) risk methodology.

Read the Other Building Fire Risk report

Service Definitions of Risk: Road Traffic Collision Risk

Our assessment of the likelihood and consequences of Road Traffic Collision Risks across Herefordshire and Worcestershire using the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) risk methodology.

Read the Road Traffic Collision Risk report

Service Definitions of Risk: Water Related Incidents and Flooding

Our assessment of the likelihood and consequences of Water Incidents across the two counties based on the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) other risk methodologies.

Read the Water Related Risks report

Strategic Understanding of Risk 2034-24: PESTEL

Our assessment of the broader landscape we operate in, identifying the potential impacts of global and national events on our activities.

Read the Strategic Understanding of Risk PESTEL report

Strategic Understanding of Risk: Incident Type – Demand

Our analysis of the number and types of incidents we attend.

Strategic Understanding of Risk – Incident Type – Demand

Foreseeable Risk Assessments

Risks which have been identified through engagement sessions which the data would not necessarily have highlighted.

Read the Foreseeable Risk Assessments report

Equality Impact Assessment: CRMP 2025-30

Our analysis of the demographics of the two counties regarding the nine Protected Characteristics and the potential impact the aims of our CRMP may have on them.

Read the Equality Impact Assessment report