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Pear is generally rated fire resistant, though one laboratory program found moderate to high flammability.
Three of four sources favor pear. FireSmart BC approves it as fire resistant while flagging it for more research. The Generalitat Valenciana recommends pear among low-flammability native or forest trees, and Catalonia’s Girona fire-gardening guide gives Pyrus species its most favorable suitability verdict. That guide weighs fire research alongside fuel structure, maintenance, origin, invasiveness, species-specific care, and fire-service experience.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand supplies the dissenting result. Its seven-level scale, grounded in shoot-flammability testing, places pear in the moderate-high band rather than among the very-low, low, or low-moderate plants it recommends. This is a direct measurement of how shoots burn under the test method, while the Spanish guides make broader landscaping judgments.
The balance supports calling pear fire resistant, but not uniformly low in flammability. It is a defensible choice under three expert or compiled systems, with a laboratory finding that cautions against treating the label as proof that pear tissue burns poorly.
Form
tree
Region
British Columbia, Canada; New Zealand; Valencia, Spain
Rated in
British Columbia; Catalonia, Spain; New Zealand; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
Uses
fruit
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
British Columbia; Catalonia, Spain; New Zealand; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
Maintenance
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)
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.
Pyrus spp. is rated “MUY 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.
Low Flammability Plants directory — Fire and Emergency New Zealand (plant flammability testing at Lincoln University) · 2026 · original sourcePrimary evidenceLab-testedlineage: lincoln-nz-tree
