The British term for arson is fire-raising.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Its first MSP, a young Labour peer, stepped down after being imprisoned for fire-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference

At Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, a not guilty plea to a second fire-raising charge was accepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-08-28] Reference

Unofficially, in the fortnight between the fire-raising at L-beck and Hitler's order for "terror attacks of a retaliatory nature" - meaning the V-weapons-word of the Angel got around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

No one saw the fire lighted, but after the disaster a certain number of little fuse-sticks which the Germans frequently use for the purpose of fire-raising, and which the peasants call "macaronis," were collected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

He was jailed for 16 months after admitting a charge of wilful fire-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference

With regard to the amount of fire-raising there are no trustworthy statistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia] Reference

What was once called fire-raising in Scotland is the best way for us to raise the standard of living for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Thinker] Reference

And she argued he could not be convicted of willful fire-raising for the alleged 2007 incident, as the jury had heard no evidence that the school had been damaged.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

They found the charge of wilful fire-raising not proven against the prisoners, but found three of them guilty of mobbing and rioting, but, in respect of their previous good conduct, recommended them to mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2] Reference

He grew excited, spoke very loud, and his further discourse, delivered with his hand on the hilt of his sword, dealt incoherently with the honourable topics of throat cutting, fire-raising, and with the far-famed valour of his ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast Of The Islands] Reference

He was brave and bloodthirsty without any affection, and he hated the white men who interfered with the manly pursuits of throat-cutting, kidnapping, slave-dealing, and fire-raising, that were the only possible occupation for a true man of the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast Of The Islands] Reference

Godrick and his set themselves to the work, and it was not right perilous, for the thieves were all about scattermeal in twos and threes, and most afoot robbing and murdering and fire-raising, so that they made but such defence, when they made any, as the rat makes to the terrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sundering Flood] Reference

Withal it was a weight off his heart that he had escaped from the turmoil of the wars of the Burg of the Four Friths, and the men of the Dry Tree, and the Wheat-wearers, with the thralldom and stripes and fire-raising, and the hard life of strife and gain of the walled town and strong place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference

When I have accomplished this quest, I would get me home again to the little land of Upmeads, to see my father and my mother, and to guard its meadows from waste and its houses from fire-raising: to hold war aloof and walk in free fields, and see my children growing up about me, and lie at last beside my fathers in the choir of St. Laurence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference

There must be close on a hundred of them; and they’re fire-raising as they come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

16 months in jail after he admitted wilful fire-raising at an Edinburgh hotel, should step aside with honour and no longer attend debates in the upper House.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Book, both by the act one thousand five hundred and sixty-seven, and various others; the whilk statutes, with all that had followed and might follow thereupon, were shamefully broken and vilipended by the said sorners, limmers, and broken men, associated into fellowships, for the aforesaid purposes of theft, stouthreef, fire-raising, murther, raptus mulierum, or forcible abduction of women, and such like as aforesaid. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference

The dreadful struggles of Marius, Cinna, and Sylla, had convinced those of all classes, who possessed any stake in the well being of the country; any estate or property, however humble, down even to the tools of daily labour, and the occupation of permanent stalls for daily traffic, that it was neither change, nor revolution, nor even larger liberty — much less proscription, civil strife, and fire-raising — but rest, but tranquillity, but peace, that they required.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

(pledges) to enter into captivity again; -- all which was directly prohibited in divers parts of the Statute Book, both by the act one thousand five hundred and sixty-seven, and various others; the whilk statutes, with all that had followed and might follow thereupon, were shamefully broken and vilipended by the said sorners, limmers, and broken men, associated into fellowships, for the aforesaid purposes of theft, stouthreef, fire-raising, murther, raptus mulierum, or forcible abduction of women, and such like as aforesaid. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley] Reference