Briarcliffe Acres, SC
How exposed is Briarcliffe Acres to wildfire?
Briarcliffe Acres's 275 buildings earn a 71st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Briarcliffe Acres at the 69th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Briarcliffe Acres's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Briarcliffe Acres: 92.7% of its 275 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 7.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Briarcliffe Acres against the rest of the country
Briarcliffe Acres scores 71st nationally and 63rd within South Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Briarcliffe Acres ranks 9,022 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,373 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 176 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Briarcliffe Acres
Briarcliffe Acres's 71st-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 Briarcliffe Acres
Briarcliffe Acres's 92.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 275 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Briarcliffe Acres. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Briarcliffe Acres, see the exposure-zones guide.