Annual Statistics Report 2025

Annual Statistics Report 2025

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) has released its Statistics Report of 2025, highlighting another busy year for our volunteer teams.

In 2025 Scottish Mountain Rescue member teams attended 798 independent incidents, assisting 901 people in Scotland’s outdoors. The total number of separate team call outs was 1,270 – which includes linked call outs on different days.

SMR team members gave 39,229 hours of their time to attend call-outs alone. In addition to this, volunteers will spend dozens of hours in training so that they can be prepared for every call-out.

This year’s Statistics Report also includes an in-depth analysis of ten years of Mountain Rescue statistics from researchers at the University of Strathclyde, highlighting long-term and seasonal trends.

The Statistics report covers the year 2025. This report includes data gathered from 26 civilian member teams as well as four Police Scotland Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs) and one RAF MRT.

The Statistics Report is available in flipping format here. PDF version is available here.