No statewide construction book — sourced · state briefing
West Virginia
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.
793plant records
1guide
2026-08-26last verified
West Virginia adopts its 2018 international family plus named standards under 87CSR4 — and no wildfire interface book. Wildfire lands on the shared floor here, and what applies to your house shows what that means in practice.
The mountain state's plant file is unexpectedly one of the deepest — 793 records spanning USDA half-zones 5b up through 7a, 173 of them flagged invasive or noxious — and living here is the page's center of gravity.
What applies in West Virginia
West Virginia does not adopt a statewide WUI construction book. 87CSR4 adopts the 2018 IBC, IPC, IMC, IFGC, IRC, and IEBC, the 2015 IECC, ASHRAE 90.1-2013, A117.1-2017, the 2020 NEC, and the 2018 ISPSC. IWUIC is not that rule. 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.
793 plant records documented in the state.
173 carry an invasive or noxious flag applying here. One fire-evidence source names West Virginia in publication scope.
For West Virginia 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/west-virginia/" title="West Virginia 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/west-virginia/">FireApproved.com</a>, cited to its sources. Not a planting approval.</p>