No statewide construction book — sourced · state briefing
Texas
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.
1local authority
636plant records
2guides
2026-08-24last verified
Texas adopts the IRC for houses and the IBC for commercial work through its Local Government Code — 214.212 and 214.216 — and leaves wildfire construction to the cities. Exactly 1 sourced local node exists and it carries an application: Austin, under local authorities. What applies to your house forks on that city limit.
For the rest of the state's vast interface, what we can't tell you yet is the honest map: nothing else is sourced.
The plant file spans nearly the whole zone ladder — USDA half-zones 6b through 10b — with 636 records documented and 149 flagged invasive or noxious. Living here is where Texas gets specific.
What applies in Texas
Texas does not adopt a statewide WUI construction book. Local Government Code 214.212 adopts the IRC as the municipal residential building code. 214.216 adopts the IBC for commercial buildings. IWUIC is not those statutes. Austin’s opened example is a local 2024 IWUIC overlay. Confirm with the building official.
1 sourced local authority is open below; 1 has 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.
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.
636 plant records documented in the state.
149 carry an invasive or noxious flag applying here. One fire-evidence source names Texas in publication scope.
For Texas 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/texas/" title="Texas 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/texas/">FireApproved.com</a>, cited to its sources. Not a planting approval.</p>
2 guides name Texas — the reading list is on Learn.