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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 95020 (Gilroy), CA | Satelife",
  "description": "ZIP 95020 in Gilroy, Santa Clara County, CA: the points we sampled inside it score a median 52.5 out of 100 (High), against 13.4–82.5 across Santa Clara County. Wildfire risk is measured per parcel, not per ZIP.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›[Santa Clara County](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-clara-county/)›ZIP 95020\n\nZIP 95020 · Gilroy, Santa Clara County, CA\n\n# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 95020_, Gilroy\n\nThe points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **52.5** out of 100 — **High**, below the Santa Clara County middle of 54.8. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.\n\n[Score my 95020 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Santa Clara County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-clara-county/)\n\nAt a glance\n\n## What we measured in _95020_\n\n52.5 median of the 21 sampled points inside this ZIP · High\n\n13.4–82.5 the range across Santa Clara County, from 167 points\n\n57% of the way up the county's measured range\n\nGilroy nearest mapped community to this ZIP's centre\n\nThe four tiers on this page are the ones a Satelife address report prints — Low below 25, Moderate to 50, High to 75, Very High above it. A ZIP is a postal area, so the number above is the middle of what we measured inside it. Either way, two houses in this ZIP can sit in different tiers, and the only way to know which is to score the parcel.\n\nZIP 95020 also reaches into San Benito County, Santa Cruz County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its San Benito County side measured 22.2 from 1 points. Its Santa Cruz County side measured 51.5 from 1 points.\n\nWhat does your 95020 address score?\n\nThe ZIP number above is a neighbourhood median. Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out and the fire history within a mile are measured at the address itself.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nFire record\n\n## The fires _nearest to here_\n\nDistances are from the centre of ZIP 95020 to the centre of each fire's mapped perimeter, so a large fire's edge may have come far closer than the number suggests. The full record for the county — every named fire, the acreage and the share of the county burned — is on the [Santa Clara County page](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-clara-county/).\n\nCrews Fire 2020 · 5,513 acres · Santa Clara County 9_km away_\n\nRocha Vmp Escape #2 Fire 1984 · 1,240 acres · Santa Cruz County 12_km away_\n\nSummit Fire 2008 · 4,175 acres · Santa Cruz County 23_km away_\n\nBollinger Ridge Fire 1961 · 32,866 acres · Santa Clara County 25_km away_\n\nTrabing Fire 2008 · 594 acres · Santa Cruz County 25_km away_\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## ZIP 95020 _in context_\n\n[Wildfire risk in Santa Clara County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-clara-county/) [Wildfire risk in San Benito County This ZIP also reaches into San Benito County](/wildfire-risk/california/san-benito-county/) [Wildfire risk in Santa Cruz County This ZIP also reaches into Santa Cruz County](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-cruz-county/) [California wildfire risk Every county we publish in the state](/wildfire-risk/california/) [How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits](/wildfire-risk/methodology/) [Run a report for a 95020 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nThis page is built from the Santa Clara County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 21 fell inside ZIP 95020. Scores are informational decision support — not a substitute for official evacuation orders, a fire-agency hazard determination, or an insurer's underwriting judgement, and never a measurement of any individual property.\n\n## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer?\n\nA ZIP median is the middle of a neighbourhood. 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."
}