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New Mexico

No statewide construction book — sourced · state briefing

New Mexico

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.

1local authority
429plant records
2guides
2026-08-24last verified

New Mexico's statewide books are the 2021 commercial and residential codes under 14.7.2 and 14.7.3 NMAC — state-amended international codes, not a wildfire book — and a county may go further. Of 1 sourced local node, none has. What applies to your house starts at that floor, and the local authorities list is a single entry.

The gap between could-adopt and has-adopted is the working content of what we can't tell you yet.

High desert to high peaks, the growing range runs from USDA half-zone 5a up to 8b. The state's file holds 429 plant records, 94 flagged invasive or noxious, and living here climbs through them.

What applies in New Mexico

New Mexico’s statewide construction books are the 2021 New Mexico Commercial Building Code and Residential Building Code (14.7.2 and 14.7.3 NMAC). Those rules adopt the 2021 IBC and IRC with state amendments. They do not adopt IWUIC. A county may still adopt IWUIC locally. 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 New Mexico →

What we can't tell you yet

1 sourced local authority is open below; 0 have a sourced construction application. Local adoption is never implied from silence.

Sourced local authorities (1)

Each page is labeled by the record actually sourced. A fire-access document is not presented as a code adoption.

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 199 Keep away 37 Documented conflict 7 Awaiting evidence 186

429 plant records documented in the state. 94 carry an invasive or noxious flag applying here. One fire-evidence source names New Mexico in publication scope.

Plant groups in New Mexico → · New Mexico embed

Put this table on your own site

For New Mexico 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/new-mexico/" title="New Mexico 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/new-mexico/">FireApproved.com</a>, cited to its sources. Not a planting approval.</p>

2 guides name New Mexico — the reading list is on Learn.

Reading that names New Mexico

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 New Mexico JSON twin · place node JSON · Methodology