Traditional poultry farms are often in close proximity to other poultry farms, resulting in potential risk of exposure to disease via local area spread. To control an outbreak, it is standard for officials to set up a 10 km Control Area around a known infected premises and control movements in that area. However, some types of birds, like upland gamebirds, are often raised on isolated farms which are on average more than 15 km from any premises with susceptible species¹ meaning that few upland gamebird farms would likely be in a regulatory Control Area during an Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak. On the other hand, the risk of infections from wild birds (i.e. not as a result of local area spread) is diffuse and unrelated to distance from an already infected farm. For these reasons, a proactive risk assessment  is needed to help everyone understand and mitigate the risks of upland gamebird movements even if located outside a Control Area when there is perceived or real consequence to the movement like the release of upland gamebirds for hunting.