Gisela, AZ
Gisela, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Gisela sits at the 97th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 427 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gisela at the 96th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Gisela's building exposure, zone by zone
427 buildings are counted in Gisela, and 57.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Gisela ranks
There's little gap between Gisela's 97th national percentile and its 82nd percentile inside Arizona, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gisela ranks 964 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,705 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 77 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gisela
Gisela's 97th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Gisela's 57.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gisela's 964-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gisela, see the exposure-zones guide.