No statewide construction book — sourced · state briefing
Arizona
Program and modelNo adopted WUI code we can source here. IBHS Wildfire Prepared asks for the inspection measures, and the 2024 IWUIC model says the same floor.
3local authorities
453plant records
4guides
2026-08-24last verified
Arizona hands the wildfire code decision down: A.R.S. 11-861 lets a county board adopt a current interface code, and 9-806 is the city-and-town parallel. Of 3 sourced local nodes, 1 has done it. What applies to your house depends on that local choice, and the local authorities list is short enough to read.
Where no board has acted, the model floor answers — and what we can't tell you yet is mostly the map of who has not acted.
From saguaro country to the plateau, the state stretches over USDA half-zones 5b through 10a; 453 plant records are documented, 83 flagged invasive or noxious, and living here is the desert half of the answer.
What applies in Arizona
Arizona does not adopt a statewide WUI construction book. A.R.S. 11-861 lets a county board adopt a current wildland-urban interface code. A.R.S. 9-806 is the parallel city-or-town option. Flagstaff’s opened example is the 2006 IWUIC with local amendments. Confirm with the building official.
3 sourced local authorities are open below; 1 has a sourced construction application. Local adoption is never implied from silence.
Sourced local authorities (3)
Each page is labeled by the record actually sourced. A fire-access document is not presented as a code adoption.
1 code-application records are normalized below these place nodes.
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.
For Arizona 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/arizona/" title="Arizona 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/arizona/">FireApproved.com</a>, cited to its sources. Not a planting approval.</p>
4 guides name Arizona — the reading list is on Learn.