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Maine fire-resistant plant list
Maine Forest Service, Forest Protection Division. This registry entry connects 40 plant records to 40 normalized source rows. It is corroboration or adoption evidence; it does not cast an independent fire vote. Evidence kind: compilation; lineage: me-mfs-fire-resistant-plants.
- Publisher
- Maine Forest Service, Forest Protection Division
- Region
- Maine
- Evidence kind
- Compilation
- Linked plants
- 40
- Normalized rows
- 40
- Fire-evidence rows
- 40
Acquisition and license
- Source version
- MFS-list-updated-2013-10-23
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-26
- Upstream license
- No reuse license stated on the official source
- Derived rows
- CC BY 4.0
- SHA-256
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Coverage contract
- fire performance · reviewed: Maine Forest Service presents a partial list for landscaping 30-100 feet from a structure. FireApproved publishes only 39 unique exact current/accepted matches plus Rhus typhina from the source's explicit parenthetical; unresolved, abbreviated, misspelled, absent, and duplicate-owner rows remain held.
The official PDF contains 50 individually named tree, shrub, vine/ground-cover, and perennial rows. Listed plants map to recommend only within the source's stated 30-100-foot landscaping placement.
Linked plant records (40)
| Plant | Source use |
|---|---|
| alternateleaf dogwood | fire evidence · 1 |
| American basswood | fire evidence · 1 |
| American black elderberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| American hazelnut | fire evidence · 1 |
| American hornbeam | fire evidence · 1 |
| American witchhazel | fire evidence · 1 |
| bigtooth aspen | fire evidence · 1 |
| black cherry | fire evidence · 1 |
| black willow | fire evidence · 1 |
| blackgum | fire evidence · 1 |
| Carolina rose | fire evidence · 1 |
| chokecherry | fire evidence · 1 |
| common buttonbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| common winterberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| eastern teaberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| gray birch | fire evidence · 1 |
| green ash | fire evidence · 1 |
| highbush blueberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| hophornbeam | fire evidence · 1 |
| mapleleaf viburnum | fire evidence · 1 |
| mountain maple | fire evidence · 1 |
| nannyberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| northern bush honeysuckle | fire evidence · 1 |
| northern red oak | fire evidence · 1 |
| paper birch | fire evidence · 1 |
| pin cherry | fire evidence · 1 |
| Possumhaw viburnum | fire evidence · 1 |
| pussy willow | fire evidence · 1 |
| quaking aspen | fire evidence · 1 |
| red columbine | fire evidence · 1 |
| red maple | fire evidence · 1 |
| southern arrowwood | fire evidence · 1 |
| staghorn sumac | fire evidence · 1 |
| striped maple | fire evidence · 1 |
| sugar maple | fire evidence · 1 |
| Virginia creeper | fire evidence · 1 |
| Virginia rose | fire evidence · 1 |
| white ash | fire evidence · 1 |
| white oak | fire evidence · 1 |
| yellow birch | fire evidence · 1 |