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Aloe vera has a laboratory flammability measurement and no verdict either way; no source has called it fire resistant or a fire risk.
The measurement comes from FLAMITS, a plant flammability trait database published through Dryad and Global Ecology and Biogeography, drawing on a 2022 study that assessed the flammability of crop plants. Branch material from Barbados aloe, the species known as Aloe vera, was dried before burning and set alight on a grill apparatus, and the flame reached a maximum of 348.64 °C. The samples were collected in October and November of 2022.
A peak flame temperature says how hot the burning material gets once it is alight. It does not say how easily the plant catches, how long it burns, or how it would behave growing in the ground with its tissue undried, because the sample was dried first. No source has reached a verdict, and the reason is plain: one number describes one property of the burn, and the study did not take a side on the plant.
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Global
Maintenance
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in FL, HI, PR, TX, VI.
Native range
Introduced / established
5 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
Broader regional context
Federal context
How to read this page
The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.
Native and introduced range evidence
These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and
introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval.
Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.
The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.
The evidence
Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself
(a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or
republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.
Listed without a rating (3)Corroboration (3 rows from 1 source)
3 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.
Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022.
