No statewide construction book — sourced · state briefing

Alabama

Program and model No adopted WUI code we can source here. IBHS Wildfire Prepared asks for the inspection measures, and the 2024 IWUIC model says the same floor.

574plant records

2026-08-26last verified

Alabama's State Building Code is a long list — the 2021 IBC among them — and the wildland-urban interface code is not on it. The wildfire default here is national, not a state book, and what applies to your house begins from that.

With 0 sourced local nodes, the local layer is an open question too; what we can't tell you yet is where both facts sit.

The garden ledger is the busier one: 574 plant records documented across USDA half-zones 7b through 9b, 128 of them flagged invasive or noxious in the state. Living here reads the humid-South palette.

What applies in Alabama

Alabama does not adopt a statewide WUI construction book. 355-12-1-.01 adopts the 2021 IBC, IEBC, IPC, IFGC, IMC, 2021 IFC, 2020 NEC, ASHRAE 90.1-2013, and 2010 ADA Standards as the State Building Code. IWUIC is not on that list. 355-12-1-.04 limits that code to state buildings, schoolhouses, hotels, and moving-picture theaters. Confirm with the building official.

No exact code-application record is normalized for this state. A source node alone does not activate requirements.

Open the Build rules for Alabama →

What we can't tell you yet

No city or county briefing is open here yet.

Living here

State distribution, native range, invasive status, hardiness, and fire evidence answer different questions. None is a planting approval. The list itself is on Grow — this page carries the aggregates.

Fire-resistant 305 Keep away 69 Documented conflict 18 Awaiting evidence 182

574 plant records documented in the state. 128 carry an invasive or noxious flag applying here. One fire-evidence source names Alabama in publication scope.

Plant groups in Alabama → · Alabama embed

Put this table on your own site

For Alabama Firewise committees, fire districts, and HOA architectural committees. The frame stays current as the evidence does, so it does not go stale the way a copied PDF does. Free to use with the attribution line below, which the snippet already includes.

<iframe src="https://fireapproved.com/embed/plants/alabama/" title="Alabama wildfire plant table" width="100%" height="900" loading="lazy" style="border:1px solid #ddd"></iframe>
<p>Plant table from <a href="https://fireapproved.com/places/alabama/">FireApproved.com</a>, cited to its sources. Not a planting approval.</p>

This briefing is the place answer; the claim graph lives on object pages and the Alabama JSON twin · place node JSON · Methodology