{ "title": "Prohibited Flammable Plants (Ashland Municipal Code 9.04)", "url": "https://fireapproved.com/plants/source/ashland-prohibited/", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "upstreamLicense": "No reuse license stated on the official City of Ashland PDF", "count": 24, "rowCount": 24, "regulatoryPublication": null, "source": { "name": "Prohibited Flammable Plants (Ashland Municipal Code 9.04)", "publisher": "City of Ashland, Oregon (Fire & Rescue / Weed Abatement)", "url": "https://ashlandoregon.gov/323/Prohibited-Flammable-Plants", "region": "Ashland, Oregon", "tier": 1, "evidenceKind": "regulatory", "lineage": "pnw590-tree", "editions": [ { "edition": "2025", "date": "2025" } ], "scaleNotes": "A municipal prohibition list: the named trees, shrubs, and grasses may not be newly planted or allowed to propagate within 30 feet of any structure (AMC 9.04), with canopy- and shrub-spacing standards under AMC 18.3.10.100. Verdict map: prohibited = avoid. Starred taxa may receive dwarf or prostrate-variety exceptions only with fire department approval, placement beyond five feet, and ordinance-compliant spacing.", "acquisition": { "upstreamLicense": "No reuse license stated on the official City of Ashland PDF", "derivedOutputLicense": "CC BY 4.0", "sourceVersion": "Ashland-Prohibited-Flammable-Plants-2025", "sourceUrl": "https://ashlandoregon.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3796/PLANT_LIST_PROHIBITED_BW_2025", "retrievedOn": "2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z", "sha256": "5a38ca9ad1ccd08cf48583a28d4253694686855b8dde6feab54b86533973c5d6" }, "coverage": [ { "channel": "fire-performance", "geography": { "grain": "aggregate-region", "stateCodes": [ "OR" ], "regions": [ "City of Ashland" ] }, "completeness": "partial", "reviewStatus": "reviewed", "scope": "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.", "asOf": "2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z", "sourceVersion": "Ashland-Prohibited-Flammable-Plants-2025" } ], "notes": "Regulatory evidence, not a flammability measurement — an adopted ordinance that corroborates avoid verdicts. Assigned to the pnw590 tree conservatively: an Oregon ordinance in the PNW-guidance sphere has not been demonstrated independent of that lineage, and independence must be shown, never assumed and matters directly to the Oregon audience. Mostly genus-level rows (all pines, all junipers, all cedars), which attach to genus records and leave species-level lab evidence undisturbed. The source's historical Rosmarinus spp. row is held rather than projected onto the much broader modern Salvia genus." }, "channelTotals": { "fireEvidence": 24, "range": 0, "status": 0, "hardiness": 0, "maintenance": 0, "fireEcology": 0 }, "items": [ { "id": "thuja", "commonName": "Arborvitae", "scientificName": "Thuja sp.", "url": "https://fireapproved.com/plants/thuja/", "channels": { "fireEvidence": 1, "range": 0, "status": 0, "hardiness": 0, "maintenance": 0, "fireEcology": 0 } }, { "id": "purshia-tridentata", "commonName": "Bitterbrush", "scientificName": "Purshia tridentata", "url": "https://fireapproved.com/plants/purshia-tridentata/", "channels": { "fireEvidence": 1, "range": 0, "status": 0, "hardiness": 0, "maintenance": 0, "fireEcology": 0 } }, { "id": "cytisus", "commonName": "Broom", "scientificName": "Cytisus sp.", "url": "https://fireapproved.com/plants/cytisus/", "channels": { "fireEvidence": 1, "range": 0, "status": 0, "hardiness": 0, "maintenance": 0, "fireEcology": 0 } 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