Briarcliff, TX
How exposed is Briarcliff to wildfire?
USFS scores Briarcliff at the 74th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,085 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 72nd percentile, close to its 74th-percentile risk score.
Where Briarcliff's buildings actually sit
1,085 buildings are counted in Briarcliff, and 59.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 37.4% in Direct exposure or the 3% rated Minimal.
Briarcliff against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, Briarcliff sits at just the 42nd percentile even though it scores 74th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Briarcliff ranks 8,330 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,379 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,047 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Briarcliff's 74th-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Briarcliff
Because 59.6% of Briarcliff's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Briarcliff's 74th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Briarcliff, see the exposure-zones guide.