Wildfire risk in Gila County: where it is highest, and why
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.
Gila County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail.
At a glance
Half of Gila County scores High or worse
We 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.
12%
78%
10%
Very High12% · 20 of 168 pointsHigh78% · 131 of 168 pointsModerate10% · 17 of 168 points
Safest end we measured37near Canyon Day / Yangongai · Moderate
Middle of the county62.3High — half of Gila County is above this
Most exposed end we measured84.9near Icehouse Canyon · Very High
And the federal models agree it is a fire county
Relatively HighFEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 99.1 / 100
$16.5M / yrFEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High
0.96%USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 2.08%
11.61 ftUSFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 99% of the county carries burnable fuel
FEMA NRI also rates Gila County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Very High · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0111.
Sources: 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.
What does your Gila County address score?
A county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it.
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Local context
What the data says about Gila County
Most scored locations fall in the High tier (131 points), with another 20 points in Very High.
Only 17 points fall in Moderate, and none fall in Low.
Fire record
Where the fires actually were
Since 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.
The largest fire listed for the county is Telegraph (2021), at 180,757 acres.
Another major fire in the record is Bush (2020), at 193,604 acres, and it is marked as partly in the county.
The most recent large fire listed is Sycamore (2026).
Telegraph Fire, 2021 — Gila County.
Photo: Inciweb · Public domainBush Fire, 2020 — Gila County.
Photo: NASA · Public domain
261mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984
966,964acres inside those perimeters since 1984
31.6%of the county's area, as a share of 12,366.9 km²
Sycamore 2026most recent large fire on record
Before 20002000s2010s2020s
Fire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.
Named fires on record
Telegraph Fire2021180,757 acres
Bush Fire2020193,604 acres in totalcrossed into the county
Flying V Fire2023115,719 acres
Mescal Fire202172,251 acres
Griffin Fire202061,821 acres
Willow Fire2004119,952 acres in totalcrossed into the county
Backbone Fire202140,858 acres
Woodbury Fire2019123,973 acres in totalcrossed into the county
Perimeter 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.
Communities
Where in the county you are matters most
Community-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.
On 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.
Pinevillage · 1,953 people
76.4 Very High
Beaver Valley Estatesvillage
76 Very High
Strawberryvillage
69.6 High
Wheatfieldsvillage · 556 people
69.3 High
Icehouse Canyonvillage · 574 people
67.8 High
Six Shooter Canyonvillage · 958 people
66.1 High
Roosevelt Estatesvillage · 449 people
65.8 High
Mesa Del Caballovillage
64 High
Miamivillage · 1,541 people
63.7 High
San Carlos / Sengaahtown · 3,987 people
61.5 High
8 more communities in Gila County
Globetown · 7,249 people
59.9 High
Claypoolvillage · 1,395 people
59.7 High
Star Valleyvillage · 2,484 people
59.2 High
Peridot / Tséé Dotłʼizhvillage · 1,308 people
59.1 High
Central Heights-Midland Cityvillage · 2,319 people
57.2 High
Paysontown · 16,361 people
53.4 High
Canyon Day / Yangongaivillage
52.5 High
Winkelmanvillage · 353 people
47.6 Moderate
The 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.
Terrain & fuels
Terrain, vegetation and fuels
Terrain scores are consistently elevated in the county. They run from 55.0 near Icehouse Canyon to 65.0 at Winkelman.
Vegetation 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.
Fire weather was not measured for this county page. The measured countywide factors here are terrain, vegetation and fuels, hazard zone, and fire history.
65median terrain score (max 65 near Winkelman)
70median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Winkelman)
Fire weather
Fire weather across Gila County
Fire 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.
What drives it
Which part of the risk moves, and which doesn't
Risk 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.
Among named communities, Pine is high at 76.4, and Strawberry is also elevated at 69.6.
Lower community medians include Winkelman at 47.6 and Payson at 53.4, showing that nearby markets can sit in different risk bands.
Each 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.
Terrain
55–65highest near Winkelman
Vegetation & fuels
5–80highest near Winkelman
Hazard zone
10–97.3highest near Beaver Valley Estates
Fire history
5–95highest near Winkelman
Overall score
37–84.9highest near Icehouse Canyon
The 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.
Show every number behind these bars
Layer
Min
Median
Max
Lowest place
Highest place
Points
Terrain
55
65
65
near Icehouse Canyon
Winkelman
166
Vegetation & fuels
5
70
80
near Roosevelt Estates
near Winkelman
168
Hazard zone
10
58.4
97.3
Miami
near Beaver Valley Estates
168
Fire history
5
55
95
near Canyon Day / Yangongai
near Winkelman
168
Composite
37
62.3
84.9
Canyon Day / Yangongai
Icehouse Canyon
168
Independently 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.
Source: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).
CAL 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.
168 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.
For a property
What a county range means for one address
For 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.
Fire-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.
In 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.
FEMA’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.
Across 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.
Find out where your Gila County parcel sits
Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.
Free to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan
Coverage
ZIP codes we cover in Gila County
Every 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.
Frequently asked questions about Gila County wildfire risk
What does the countywide pattern look like at a glance?
Most 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.
Which fire is the largest, and which is the most recent large fire?
The largest fire listed for the county is Telegraph (2021), at 180,757 acres. The most recent large fire listed is Sycamore (2026).
How much of Gila County has burned since 1984?
31.6% of the county has burned since 1984, totaling 966,964 acres.
Does this page include fire weather scores?
No. Fire weather was not measured for this county page.
Are town scores the same as a property score?
No. Town values summarize nearby scored locations, but individual parcels can be higher or lower than the community median.
This 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.
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