Alaska Division of Forestry opens with the wildfire threat to Alaskans and publishes Alaska firewise-landscape examples. FireApproved publishes 58 exact source owners from its 60 taxon entries and holds the taxon-free fern label. State publication scope does not establish suitability for every Alaska climate, site, or home-ignition-zone placement.
The Alabama Forestry Commission's five-page AFC-FP-04 booklet is an Alabama publication and contains 31 printed suggested or fire-prone plant occurrences. FireApproved publishes 27 exact species or genus owners and holds one infraspecific form plus two named cultivars; this historical source scope does not establish current site suitability for a particular Alabama property.
City of Ashland (OR footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2026-08-26
This is a City of Ashland adoption fact, not statewide Oregon guidance or an experimental flammability result. FireApproved publishes 24 taxonomy-safe owners as city-level regulatory context. It applies to new planting and propagation within 30 feet of structures, including structures on adjacent lots; it is not projected as a blanket removal order for every established listed plant.
Marin County (CA footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2019-01-01
The publication is explicitly limited to plants common to Marin County. FireApproved publishes 104 exact owners as Marin regional context while retaining its placement, spacing, irrigation, and maintenance boundary. It is not statewide California guidance or parcel suitability.
Nebraska Forest Service labels this the Eastern Nebraska Edition. FireApproved publishes the two exact taxon-resolvable owners from its direct avoid sentence as eastern Nebraska context. Arborvitae and other ambiguous common names remain held; Western Nebraska is not inferred.
Oklahoma State University Extension frames the article around statewide Oklahoma heat, drought, wildfire, and plant selection and publishes five unambiguous genus owners. Ambiguous common names remain excluded, and the prose examples do not establish suitability for every Oklahoma site.
The October 2023 joint Pacific Northwest Extension publication explicitly names Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and publishes more than 150 plant profiles. FireApproved has normalized 155 exact plant records from the source; publication scope does not assert that every listed plant suits every site within the three states.
South Carolina Forestry Commission publishes this explicitly as its Fire Smart Plant List for South Carolina. FireApproved publishes 63 exact genus owners from 72 unique common-name labels; unsafe common-name mappings and duplicates are not broadened. The brochure calls the list non-inclusive and does not establish species-level or site-specific suitability.
Western South Dakota, Black Hills (SD footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2026-04-08
The current SDSU Extension page explicitly addresses western South Dakota, particularly the Black Hills. FireApproved publishes its four exact genus owners. This is current bounded regional context, not statewide South Dakota coverage or a finding that every member of a genus behaves alike.
Sun City Texas, Georgetown (TX footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2015-01-14
The guide is authored for the Sun City Texas community in Georgetown. FireApproved publishes 142 exact owners only as community-level context. It is an archived HOA exhibit with unknown rating lineage, not a current statewide Texas source or an independent Tier 1 determination.
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 ID, OR, WA.
Native range
Introduced / established
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.
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.
Prohibited Flammable Plants: new planting or propagation restricted within 30 ft of any structure [Ashland Municipal Code setback] (with its avoid rating)
Firewise Plantings Can Help Protect Property: do not plant near a home or other structure [okstate-near-structures] (with its avoid rating)
Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Selecting and Maint…: avoid in defensible space around homes in high wildfire-risk areas [ufifas-fr147-defensible-space] (with its avoid rating)
Landscaping in Florida with Fire in Mind: within 30 feet of the home [ufifas-for71-defensible-space] (with its avoid rating)
Firewise Landscaping for Utah: PLANTS TO AVOID (PDF page 15) [ffsl-2007-section] (with its avoid rating)
Landscaping Can Be Attractive & FIREWISE: SHRUBS; TREES [SCFC Fire Smart plant-form sections] (with its avoid rating)
Protect Your Home from Wildfire: Characteristics of plants that ignite and burn readily [Alaska DNR brochure sections] (with its avoid rating)
Firewise Plant Guide: Avoid if Possible [Sun City plant-table sections] (with its avoid rating)
Living With Fire: Lean, Clean and Green Area Tips (PDF page 11) [Nebraska defensible-space zones] (with its avoid rating)
Protecting Your Home and Landscape Against Wildfires: Intermediate Zone [Home Ignition Zone] (with its avoid rating)
Firewise Landscaping for Woodland Homes: Suggested shrubs [Alabama Forestry Commission booklet section] (with its recommendation)
Κανονισμός Πυροπροστασίας Ακινήτων εντός ή πλησίον δασικώ…: section 5.4.2, Table 2δi [greece-2023-particularly-flammable] (with its avoid rating)
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.
The source says to remove red cedar within 30 feet of the home because the plants contain resins, oils, and waxes that burn readily. This record preserves only the exact genus-level identity supported by that label.
Listed as Juniper — Juniperus sp.. The bulletin says fire-resistant plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained, while fire-prone plants may ignite readily and burn intensely.
“HIGHLY Flammable Plants (Plants that will ignite faster and burn readily)”
Listed as Junipers; Eastern red cedar. The source says highly flammable plants ignite faster and burn readily; less flammable plants have some fire resistance.
The table rates Juniper (Cedar), all columnar evergreens — various species very high for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.
