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Delicious raspberry appears on Firewise plant lists, but the available compilations do not settle that it is fire resistant.
The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension included the shrub after at least two of seven named western sources reported it as fire resistant, Firewise, or otherwise favorable. That is useful agreement, but it is a compilation threshold rather than a direct measure of how the plant ignites or burns.
Fremont County Firewise also places delicious raspberry in its Large Shrubs and Trees section. The county describes its listed Firewise plants generally as low-growing, low-debris, and relatively moist. Those are characteristics of the list as a whole, however, not specific findings that the county assigns to delicious raspberry.
Delicious raspberry is a rose-family shrub native across several parts of the central and western United States. Its appearance in regional Firewise guidance gives homeowners a sound reason to consider it, especially in places resembling Nevada’s Great Basin or Fremont County, Wyoming. Still, “listed as Firewise” should not be stretched into proof of fire resistance. The fairest conclusion is that these regional listings favor the shrub but do not establish how readily it ignites or burns.
Form
shrub
Rated in
Fremont County, Wyoming; Nevada / Great Basin
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Fremont County, Wyoming; Nevada / Great Basin
Maintenance
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
Fremont County (WY footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2011-02-25
The source identifies itself as the Fremont County Firewise Plant List. FireApproved publishes its 92 exact source owners as Fremont County regional context. No methodology, current county endorsement, statewide Wyoming scope, or site-specific suitability is inferred.
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension compiled plants suited to Nevada climate zones and reported favorably by at least two upstream firewise lists. FireApproved publishes 126 exact source owners at Nevada publication scope. The source explicitly makes no independent flammability determination, so these rows remain corroborative.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in CO, NM, NV, OK, WY.
Native range
Current cited native range in AZ, CO, NM, OK, UT, WY.
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.
Native and introduced range evidence
These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and
introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval.
Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.
The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.
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.
“Fremont County Firewise Plant List — Rubus delisiosus — Boulder Raspberry, Thimbleberry”
Listed in the source's Large Shrubs and Trees section; the page describes its listed Firewise plants as generally low-growing, low-debris, and relatively moist.
