Lonicera nitida (accepted: Lonicera pileata) · Caprifoliaceae · all Lonicera records · also called Madreselva de hoja, Lligabosc de fulla · syn. Lonicera nitida · Wikipedia
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Yes, box honeysuckle is rated fire resistant, with clear favorable findings from Catalonia and the Australian Capital Territory.
The Diputació de Girona and Bombers de la Generalitat de Catalunya rate Lonicera nitida “recommended.” Their five-part suitability scale runs from “very recommended” through “prohibited.” This qualitative method assumes species-specific care and weighs fire-resistance literature and fire-service experience alongside fuel structure, maintenance, origin, and invasiveness.
The Australian Capital Territory government reaches the same practical conclusion through a simpler classification: its live plant selector marks Lonicera nitida “Fire Retardant: Yes.” Idaho Firewise also reports a workbook value of 30 attributed to the Idaho Database. Its stated fire-resistance scale, however, runs from 0 to 10, so the value of 30 cannot be assigned one of its published recommendation bands.
The two findings with plainly defined meanings both favor box honeysuckle. Although their methods differ, one calls it recommended and the other explicitly identifies it as fire retardant. On that balance, box honeysuckle, a vine in the Caprifoliaceae family, can reasonably be treated as a fire-resistant landscaping choice.
Form
vine
Rated in
Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Catalonia, Spain; southern Idaho / Intermountain
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Southern Idaho (ID footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2013-11-08
The official database labels itself "For Southern Idaho" and describes Idaho residents at the urban-rangeland interface. FireApproved publishes 419 existing plant owners that cite its scored rows. This bounded Southern Idaho scope is regional context, not statewide coverage or a conclusion that the score transfers unchanged to every Idaho site.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
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.
Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone [girona-2020-iuf-25m-suitability] (with its recommendation)
Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database: 30 ft minimum planting distance on flat terrain [Idaho minimum planting distance] (with its recommendation)
Canberra Plant Selector: filtered result page 2 [canberra-selector] (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.
Lonicera nitida 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.