Briarwood Estates, MO
How exposed is Briarwood Estates to wildfire?
Briarwood Estates sits at the 57th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 121 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Briarwood Estates at the 59th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Briarwood Estates's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Briarwood Estates: 89.3% of its 121 buildings, versus 5% Indirect and 5.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Briarwood Estates ranks
Briarwood Estates scores 57th nationally and 48th within Missouri — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Briarwood Estates ranks 13,466 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,114 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 547 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Briarwood Estates's elevated wildfire rating (57th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Briarwood Estates
Briarwood Estates's 89.3% 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
Briarwood Estates's 57th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Briarwood Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.