Wiltshire Council recorded 3,005 fly-tipping incidents during 2024/25, according to analysis of government figures by HIPPO Waste.
That represents a 7.7 per cent increase on the previous year, when 2,789 incidents were reported, taking the county back above the 3,000 mark.
Despite the recent rise, the longer-term trend shows incidents are still almost 20 per cent lower than in 2020/21, when Wiltshire recorded 3,742 cases.
Wiltshire had the sixth-highest number of fly-tipping incidents in the South West, behind Bristol, Plymouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Cornwall and Swindon.
The county also issued nearly £13,000 in court fines linked to fly-tipping offences during 2024/25 — the second-highest total in the region.
Gareth Lloyd Jones said rural areas such as Wiltshire can be particularly difficult to manage because incidents are often spread across quieter roads, villages and lay-bys.
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