Briarcliff, AR
Briarcliff, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Briarcliff at the 76th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 141 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Briarcliff at the 78th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Briarcliff's 141 counted buildings, 88.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Briarcliff ranks
Briarcliff scores 76th nationally and 67th within Arkansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Briarcliff ranks 7,679 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,233 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 201 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Briarcliff and the insurance market
Briarcliff's high rating (76th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Briarcliff
With 88.7% of Briarcliff in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Briarcliff's 7,679-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Briarcliff, see the exposure-zones guide.