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Sago palm is rated fire resistant, with three independent public guides recommending it for fire-conscious gardens.
The agreement is unusually clear: all three place Cycas revoluta on the favorable side of their assessments.
The Generalitat Valenciana includes it among recommended low-flammability species for wildland-urban-interface gardens. A Catalan guide from the Diputació de Girona and the regional fire service also rates it “recommended.” That judgment comes from a broad garden-suitability method combining fire research and firefighters’ experience with fuel structure, maintenance needs, origin, and invasiveness. It is a practical assessment of the whole plant in a managed garden, not merely a laboratory measurement.
The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension likewise lists sago palm among its Fire-Resistant Plants. Its guidance adds the condition that such plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained; fire resistant does not mean fireproof. That qualification matters because the favorable rating assumes appropriate care rather than immunity to flames.
Taken together, the Mediterranean garden guides and Arizona extension bulletin support using this tree from the Cycadaceae family as a fire-resistant landscape choice. Its rating is strongest when the plant is kept irrigated and maintained as Arizona’s guidance specifies.
Form
tree
Rated in
Catalonia, Spain; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean; Yavapai County, Arizona
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Yavapai County (AZ footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2025-03-14
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension authors Bulletin 34 for Yavapai County. FireApproved publishes 198 exact source owners from its resistant and prone tables and keeps the county boundary visible. County publication scope is regional Arizona context, never statewide scope.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AZ, FL, GA, PR.
Native range
Introduced / established
2 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.
Where its sources say to plant it
Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating.
They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.
Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone [girona-2020-iuf-25m-suitability] (with its recommendation)
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.
Cycas revoluta is rated “RECOMENDADA” 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.
Listed as Sago palm — Cycas revoluta. The bulletin says fire-resistant plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained, while fire-prone plants may ignite readily and burn intensely.
