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Kentucky

No statewide construction book — sourced · state briefing

Kentucky

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.

579plant records
1guide
2026-08-26last verified

Kentucky's mandatory state building code is the 2015 International Building Code under 815 KAR 7:120, carrying the 2018 Kentucky amendments — and no wildfire interface book. The wildfire baseline is therefore national, and what applies to your house reads from it.

No county or city has a sourced wildfire adoption; that single clear fact is what we can't tell you yet.

The bluegrass garden file runs 579 documented records across USDA half-zones 6b through 7b, 144 of them flagged invasive or noxious — living here is the richer half of this page.

What applies in Kentucky

Kentucky does not adopt a statewide WUI construction book. 815 KAR 7:120 adopts the 2015 International Building Code as the mandatory state building code, with the 2018 Kentucky Building Code amendments. IWUIC is not that regulation. 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 Kentucky →

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 346 Keep away 58 Documented conflict 21 Awaiting evidence 154

579 plant records documented in the state. 144 carry an invasive or noxious flag applying here. One fire-evidence source names Kentucky in publication scope.

Plant groups in Kentucky → · Kentucky embed

Put this table on your own site

For Kentucky 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/kentucky/" title="Kentucky 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/kentucky/">FireApproved.com</a>, cited to its sources. Not a planting approval.</p>

Reading that names Kentucky

Child-place and sibling claims stay on those place pages, their object URLs, and the JSON twin.

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