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Date Palms
Every rated Phoenix record is keep-away — 2 of 2 records; none is rated fire-resistant. These counts describe the cited records — 2 records carrying 4 evidence rows from 3 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Keep away
2 species
About date palms
Corpus context. Phoenix is the directory's #497 largest of 550 genus groups: 2 records carrying 4 evidence rows from 3 cited sources, recorded as tree , hardy across USDA zones 8–8. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Phoenix: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.
The answer for date palms is no. Here is what to plant instead.
Alternatives matched by form and place, each carrying its own evidence.