No statewide construction book — sourced · state briefing
Massachusetts
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.
598plant records
2026-08-26last verified
Massachusetts builds on the tenth edition of 780 CMR, drawn from the 2021 international family — with no wildland-urban interface code. What applies to your house is the model floor and the national programs, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
The municipal wildfire layer is unsourced statewide; what we can't tell you yet is exactly that sentence.
The Commonwealth's plant file is deep: 598 records documented across USDA half-zones 5b through 7b, 170 flagged invasive or noxious. Living here leads with the flags, Berkshires to Cape.
What applies in Massachusetts
Massachusetts does not adopt a statewide WUI construction book. The tenth edition of 780 CMR is based on the 2021 IBC, IRC, IEBC, IMC, IECC, ISPSC, and IFC. IWUIC is not on that list. Confirm with the building official.
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 Massachusetts 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/massachusetts/" title="Massachusetts 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/massachusetts/">FireApproved.com</a>, cited to its sources. Not a planting approval.</p>