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Lantana has favorable fire guidance, with limited evidence and an important Texas placement condition.
Texas A&M Forest Service includes lantana among acceptable fire-resistant plants in its outer example group, labeled 30 feet and beyond. That position is part of the recommendation. Citing lantana as acceptable without its distance band would lose the guide's answer to where it belongs around a home.
The South Carolina Forestry Commission supplies another favorable assessment, placing lantana in its less-flammable group with some fire resistance. FireSmart BC likewise lists it as fire resistant, while marking it for further research. These recommendations agree in direction but retain different qualifications.
For this perennial in the verbena family, the useful conclusion is a qualified yes. The Texas example is specifically for the more distant planting band, and the British Columbia listing keeps its research flag. Together with South Carolina's recommendation, they support the fire-resistant classification on the available limited evidence.
Form
perennial
Rated in
British Columbia; South Carolina; Texas
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
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.
Texas A&M Forest Service says the guide's landscape elements apply across Texas and at all scales. FireApproved publishes ten exact genus owners from its placement-band examples and holds Primrose and Bluebells rather than guessing taxa. The examples are not a complete Texas plant palette.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in WA, OR, ID.
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.
Firewise Landscaping in Texas: The Right Plant for the Ri…: 30 feet and beyond [tamfs-defensible-space] (with its recommendation)
Landscaping Can Be Attractive & FIREWISE: GROUNDCOVERS, BEDDING PLANTS, & VINES [SCFC Fire Smart plant-form sections] (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.
