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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Gila County, Arizona 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Gila County is broadly elevated across the places we scored. The middle overall score is 62.3, with scores ranging from 37.0 at Canyon Day / Yangongai to 84.9 at Icehouse Canyon.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[Arizona](/wildfire-risk/arizona/)›Gila County\n\nGila County, Arizona\n\n# Wildfire risk in Gila County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Gila County is broadly elevated across the places we scored. The middle overall score is 62.3, with scores ranging from 37.0 at Canyon Day / Yangongai to 84.9 at Icehouse Canyon.\n\n[Score my Gila County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nGila County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail.\n\nAt a glance\n\n## Half of Gila County scores _High_ or worse\n\nWe scored 168 points across Gila County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 12% of them come out Very High, while 10% are Moderate. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n12%\n\n78%\n\n10%\n\n**Very High** 12% · 20 of 168 points **High** 78% · 131 of 168 points **Moderate** 10% · 17 of 168 points\n\nSafest end we measured 37 near Canyon Day / Yangongai · Moderate\n\nMiddle of the county 62.3 High — half of Gila County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 84.9 near Icehouse Canyon · Very High\n\n### And the federal models agree it is a fire county\n\nRelatively High FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 99.1 / 100\n\n$16.5M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High\n\n0.96% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 2.08%\n\n11.61 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 99% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Gila County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Very High · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0111.\n\nSources: FEMA National Risk Index 1.20.0 (Dec 2025), county record · USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0, mean of the grid cells inside the county. Both describe the county as a whole, never an address in it.\n\nWhat does your Gila County address score?\n\nA county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nLocal context\n\n## What the data says about _Gila County_\n\nMost scored locations fall in the High tier (131 points), with another 20 points in Very High.\n\nOnly 17 points fall in Moderate, and none fall in Low.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, 966,964 acres have burned in Gila County, equal to 31.6% of the county. Over that same period, 261 fire perimeters are recorded.\n\nThe largest fire listed for the county is Telegraph (2021), at 180,757 acres.\n\nAnother major fire in the record is Bush (2020), at 193,604 acres, and it is marked as partly in the county.\n\nThe most recent large fire listed is Sycamore (2026).\n\n![Telegraph Fire (2021) in Gila County, Arizona - Fire crews fighting the Telegraph Fire on June 9, 2021](/images/wildfire-risk/arizona/gila-county/photos/telegraph-fire-arizona.webp)\n\n**Telegraph Fire, 2021** — Gila County. Photo: Inciweb · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telegraph_Fire,_Arizona.jpg)\n\n![Bush Fire (2020) in Gila County, Arizona - The Bush Fire burning in central Arizona on June 17, 2020 as seen from space](/images/wildfire-risk/arizona/gila-county/photos/bushfirearizonajune172020.webp)\n\n**Bush Fire, 2020** — Gila County. Photo: NASA · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BushFireArizonaJune172020.jpg)\n\n261 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n966,964 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n31.6% of the county's area, as a share of 12,366.9 km²\n\nSycamore 2026 most recent large fire on record\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020s \n\nFire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.\n\nNamed fires on record\n\n-   **Telegraph Fire**2021180,757 acres\n-   **Bush Fire**2020193,604 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Flying V Fire**2023115,719 acres\n-   **Mescal Fire**202172,251 acres\n-   **Griffin Fire**202061,821 acres\n-   **Willow Fire**2004119,952 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Backbone Fire**202140,858 acres\n-   **Woodbury Fire**2019123,973 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Telegraph 2021. Perimeters are simplified for display; acreage is the figure the source records.\n\nCommunities\n\n## Where in the county you are _matters most_\n\nCommunity-level results are not all the same, even within short distances. Icehouse Canyon is at 67.8, Six Shooter Canyon is at 66.1, and Wheatfields is at 69.3.\n\nOn the lower end, Winkelman is 47.6 and Canyon Day / Yangongai is 52.5, while Globe is 59.9. These are community medians, so individual properties can still differ from the town-level pattern.\n\nPine village · 1,953 people\n\n76.4 _Very High_\n\nBeaver Valley Estates village\n\n76 _Very High_\n\nStrawberry village\n\n69.6 _High_\n\nWheatfields village · 556 people\n\n69.3 _High_\n\nIcehouse Canyon village · 574 people\n\n67.8 _High_\n\nSix Shooter Canyon village · 958 people\n\n66.1 _High_\n\nRoosevelt Estates village · 449 people\n\n65.8 _High_\n\nMesa Del Caballo village\n\n64 _High_\n\nMiami village · 1,541 people\n\n63.7 _High_\n\nSan Carlos / Sengaah town · 3,987 people\n\n61.5 _High_\n\n8 more communities in Gila County\n\nGlobe town · 7,249 people\n\n59.9 _High_\n\nClaypool village · 1,395 people\n\n59.7 _High_\n\nStar Valley village · 2,484 people\n\n59.2 _High_\n\nPeridot / Tséé Dotłʼizh village · 1,308 people\n\n59.1 _High_\n\nCentral Heights-Midland City village · 2,319 people\n\n57.2 _High_\n\nPayson town · 16,361 people\n\n53.4 _High_\n\nCanyon Day / Yangongai village\n\n52.5 _High_\n\nWinkelman village · 353 people\n\n47.6 _Moderate_\n\nThe score is the median of the sampled points nearest that community — a community-scale indicator, not a score for any individual property in it. Population comes from the community's own record where the source carries one.\n\nTerrain & fuels\n\n## Terrain, vegetation and _fuels_\n\nTerrain scores are consistently elevated in the county. They run from 55.0 near Icehouse Canyon to 65.0 at Winkelman.\n\nVegetation and fuels show a much wider spread: from 5.0 near Roosevelt Estates up to 80.0 near Winkelman, with a middle value of 70.0.\n\nFire weather was not measured for this county page. The measured countywide factors here are terrain, vegetation and fuels, hazard zone, and fire history.\n\n65 median terrain score (max 65 near Winkelman)\n\n70 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Winkelman)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Gila County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Gila County. The other four indicators on this page were, and the bars below show what they found.\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nRisk varies a lot by location inside the county. The highest overall score is 84.9 at Icehouse Canyon, while the lowest is 37.0 at Canyon Day / Yangongai.\n\nAmong named communities, Pine is high at 76.4, and Strawberry is also elevated at 69.6.\n\nLower community medians include Winkelman at 47.6 and Payson at 53.4, showing that nearby markets can sit in different risk bands.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Gila County, on the same 0–100 scale. A long bar is a part of the risk that depends on where you are; a short one is the same almost everywhere.\n\nTerrain\n\n55–65 highest near Winkelman\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5–80 highest near Winkelman\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–97.3 highest near Beaver Valley Estates\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Winkelman\n\nOverall score\n\n37–84.9 highest near Icehouse Canyon\n\nThe tick on each bar is the middle value. Tier boundaries — Moderate at 25, High at 50, Very High at 75 — are the faint lines behind them.\n\nShow every number behind these bars\n\nLayer\n\nMin\n\nMedian\n\nMax\n\nLowest place\n\nHighest place\n\nPoints\n\nTerrain\n\n55\n\n65\n\n65\n\nnear Icehouse Canyon\n\nWinkelman\n\n166\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5\n\n70\n\n80\n\nnear Roosevelt Estates\n\nnear Winkelman\n\n168\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n58.4\n\n97.3\n\nMiami\n\nnear Beaver Valley Estates\n\n168\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n55\n\n95\n\nnear Canyon Day / Yangongai\n\nnear Winkelman\n\n168\n\nComposite\n\n37\n\n62.3\n\n84.9\n\nCanyon Day / Yangongai\n\nIcehouse Canyon\n\n168\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.96%** (90th percentile cell: **2.08%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **11.61 ft**. **99%** of the 18,551 grid cells inside the county carry burnable fuel at all.\n\nSource: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).\n\nCAL FIRE has no mapped Fire Hazard Severity Zone at **168** of the 168 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas, and most of this county is state or federal land. At **165** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 3 the hazard weight is renormalised away rather than scored as low.\n\n168 sample points on a ~2.3 km grid, plus one at the centre of each community, weighted with the Satelife county profile v1 · median layer coverage 90%. Scores are 0–100 and comparable within the county, not across states.\n\nFor a property\n\n## What a county range means for _one address_\n\nFor property context, hazard-zone scores span a very wide range: from 10.0 in Miami to 97.3 near Beaver Valley Estates, with a county middle value of 58.4.\n\nFire-history scores also vary sharply, from 5.0 near Canyon Day / Yangongai to 95.0 near Winkelman. The middle fire-history score is 55.0.\n\nIn the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities model, mean annual burn probability is 0.96%, and the 90th-percentile cell is 2.08%. It also indicates 99.3% of the county can burn.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates Gila County’s wildfire risk as Relatively High and its wildfire expected annual loss as Relatively High. FEMA also rates all-hazards risk as Relatively Moderate, social vulnerability as Very High, and community resilience as Very Low.\n\nAcross 168 sampled points in Gila County, the score runs from 37 to 84.9 — two neighbouring parcels can sit in different tiers. A county number is the middle of that spread; it says nothing about which end yours is at.\n\nFind out where your Gila County parcel sits\n\nSlope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nCoverage\n\n## ZIP codes we cover in Gila County\n\nEvery one of the 20 ZIP areas that touch Gila County — we run address-level reports in all of them. They are grouped by the median score of the points we sampled inside each, which is a neighbourhood-scale indicator and **not** a score for any property: two homes in the same ZIP routinely land in different tiers.\n\n**Very High** 1 ZIP\n\n-   [85544 Pine75](/wildfire-risk/zip/85544/)\n\n**High** 10 ZIPs\n\n-   [85501 Wheatfields68](/wildfire-risk/zip/85501/)\n-   [85541 Payson67](/wildfire-risk/zip/85541/)\n-   [85553 Roosevelt Estates67](/wildfire-risk/zip/85553/)\n-   [85554 Star Valley64](/wildfire-risk/zip/85554/)\n-   [85545 Roosevelt Estates64](/wildfire-risk/zip/85545/)\n-   [85550 San Carlos / Sengaah61](/wildfire-risk/zip/85550/)\n-   [85542 Peridot / Tséé Dotłʼizh59](/wildfire-risk/zip/85542/)\n-   [85539 Miami57](/wildfire-risk/zip/85539/)\n-   [85192 Winkelman54](/wildfire-risk/zip/85192/)\n-   [85532 Claypool51](/wildfire-risk/zip/85532/)\n\n**Moderate** 1 ZIP\n\n-   [85941 Canyon Day / Yangongai47](/wildfire-risk/zip/85941/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 8 ZIPs\n\n[85135 Winkelman](/wildfire-risk/zip/85135/) · [85137 Winkelman](/wildfire-risk/zip/85137/) · [85263](/wildfire-risk/zip/85263/) · [85264](/wildfire-risk/zip/85264/) · [85530 Peridot / Tséé Dotłʼizh](/wildfire-risk/zip/85530/) · [85926 Canyon Day / Yangongai](/wildfire-risk/zip/85926/) · [85931](/wildfire-risk/zip/85931/) · [86322 Strawberry](/wildfire-risk/zip/86322/)\n\nGrouped from 12 of 20 ZIP areas — the rest had no sample point fall inside them. The community shown is the nearest mapped place to the ZIP's centre.\n\nZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## Gila County wildfire risk _in context_\n\n[Arizona wildfire risk The statewide picture and every county page we publish](/wildfire-risk/arizona/) [Wildfire risk by state Every state and county we cover](/wildfire-risk/) [How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits](/wildfire-risk/methodology/) [Create a wildfire evacuation plan Zones, egress routes, refuge areas](/wildfire-evacuation-plan/) [Run a report for a Gila County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Gila County wildfire risk_\n\nWhat does the countywide pattern look like at a glance?\n\nMost places scored in Gila County are in the High tier, and a sizable share are in Very High. No scored points fall in the Low tier.\n\nWhich fire is the largest, and which is the most recent large fire?\n\nThe largest fire listed for the county is Telegraph (2021), at 180,757 acres. The most recent large fire listed is Sycamore (2026).\n\nHow much of Gila County has burned since 1984?\n\n31.6% of the county has burned since 1984, totaling 966,964 acres.\n\nDoes this page include fire weather scores?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured for this county page.\n\nAre town scores the same as a property score?\n\nNo. Town values summarize nearby scored locations, but individual parcels can be higher or lower than the community median.\n\nThis page is generated from a Gila County data pack assembled on 2026-09-05 (pack v1.0). Scores are sampled across the county, not measured at any individual address, and are informational decision support — not a substitute for official evacuation orders, a fire-agency hazard determination, or an insurer's underwriting judgement. Data versions: fema\\_nri 1.20.0 (Dec 2025) · landfire per adapter · nifc\\_history All Years View · wfigs current · wrc v2.0 (2024) · zcta Census 2020.\n\n## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer?\n\nA county range shows the spread. An address-level Satelife report shows where in that spread your property actually sits — PDF, per-layer score, and a prioritized mitigation plan.\n\n[Start with your address →](/#cta)\n\n[![PRR](/images/prr.png)](/ficha-de-website-voucher-satelife.pdf)\n\n© 2024–2026 Satelife, Lda. All rights reserved.\n\nSatelife reports are for informational purposes only and do not constitute insurance, financial, or legal advice."
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