No statewide construction book — sourced · state briefing

District of Columbia

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.

731plant records

2026-08-26last verified

The District adopts twelve construction books — effective 29 May 2020, from the 2015 model family — and a wildfire interface code is not among them. What applies to your house here is the model floor, in the least wildland jurisdiction in the directory.

What we can't tell you yet is accordingly short: no local wildfire construction layer is sourced, and none is implied.

The garden file is unexpectedly deep: 731 plant records documented across USDA half-zones 7b and 8a, with 173 flagged invasive or noxious. Living here is most of this page's working content.

What applies in District of Columbia

The District of Columbia does not adopt a WUI construction book. The 2017 DC Construction Codes, effective 29 May 2020, are twelve books: 2015 IBC, IRC, IFGC, IMC, IPC, IPMC, IFC, IECC residential / ASHRAE 90.1-2013, IEBC, 2012 IgCC, 2015 ISPSC, and 2014 NEC, as amended in DCMR Title 12 A–L. IWUIC is not among them. 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 District of Columbia →

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 396 Keep away 133 Documented conflict 44 Awaiting evidence 158

731 plant records documented in the state. 173 carry an invasive or noxious flag applying here.

Plant groups in District of Columbia → · District of Columbia embed

Put this table on your own site

For District of Columbia 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.

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<p>Plant table from <a href="https://fireapproved.com/places/district-of-columbia/">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 District of Columbia JSON twin · place node JSON · Methodology