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Deodara cedar
Cedrus deodara
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Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Catalonia, Spain; Córdoba, southern Spain; Global; Virginia / Mid-Atlantic; eastern US
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in DC, DE, GA, MD, NC, NJ, OH, PA, SC, WV.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- 1 sourced range or established record; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
- USDA hardiness
- Documented minimum 5b; no upper limit is documented.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- tree
- USDA hardiness
- Minimum 5b; upper limit not documented
- Mature height
- ~50 ft
- Light
- Full sun
- Water need
- low
- Grows in
- DC, DE, GA, MD, NC, NJ, OH, PA +2
- Rated in
- Catalonia, Spain; Córdoba, southern Spain; Global; Virginia / Mid-Atlantic +1
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Evidence
- 7 cited sources
Plant hardiness evidence
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
Source prints 6 · single-value meaning unresolved
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USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 5b · no upper limit documented
Conditions in the fire evidence
Where its sources say to plant it
- Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector: Landscape Zone 3 — 10–30 ft from the structure; thin vegetation, remove debris, and minimize plant massing
- Guía de pirojardinería: not suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone
The evidence
Avoids (3)
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
“NOT Firewise (4)”
Typically does not grow straight.
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Virginia Firescapes — Firewise Landscaping for Woodland Homes (430-300)
“H flammability”
Drought tolerant. Limited cold tolerance.
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“MUY DESACONSEJADA”
Cedrus deodara is rated “MUY DESACONSEJADA” by the guide's qualitative IUF garden-suitability method. The method assumes species-specific care and integrates fire evidence with fuel structure, maintenance, origin, invasiveness, and expert fire-service experience.
Mid-scale / conditional (1)
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The ignition index based on flammability of vegetation improves planning in the WUI
“Flammable (Valette 3)”
Table 2 reports 111.11% foliar moisture, 14.28 s mean time to ignition, and 12.93 s mean flame duration across 200 live-leaf samples.
Listed without a rating (3)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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“time to flaming (s): 14.28”
FLAMITS record 9292; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Molina2017-1; sampling summer. Primary study Molina2017: Molina, J. R., Martín, T., Rodríguez Y Silva, F., & Herrera, M. Á. (2017). The ignition index based on flammability of vegetation improves planning in the wildland-urban interface: A case study in Southern Spain. Landscape and Urban Planning, 158, 129-138.
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“flaming duration (s): 12.93”
FLAMITS record 9310; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Molina2017-1; sampling summer. Primary study Molina2017: Molina, J. R., Martín, T., Rodríguez Y Silva, F., & Herrera, M. Á. (2017). The ignition index based on flammability of vegetation improves planning in the wildland-urban interface: A case study in Southern Spain. Landscape and Urban Planning, 158, 129-138.
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“flammability value: 3”
FLAMITS record 9328; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Molina2017-1; sampling summer. Primary study Molina2017: Molina, J. R., Martín, T., Rodríguez Y Silva, F., & Herrera, M. Á. (2017). The ignition index based on flammability of vegetation improves planning in the wildland-urban interface: A case study in Southern Spain. Landscape and Urban Planning, 158, 129-138.
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