This year saw many more wildfires in Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
One of the fires in 2022 involved bales of hay near the Grade II listed Rowton Castle in ShropshireThe county's fire service responded to 138 calls in June, July and August, compared to 50 in 2021 and 40 in 2020.
It took 53 of those calls in July 2022, when the UK was experiencing record temperatures, but the peak came in August when it responded to 65 wildfire calls.Herefordshire and Worcestershire saw wildfire related calls treble and Warwickshire firefighters responded to six times the number of calls in 2022, compared to the previous year.
The information was supplied to the Press Association in response to a Freedom of Information request to England's 44 fire services.Fire services across the whole of England
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