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Sandankwa viburnum has mixed fire evidence because its low hazard rating sits beside a specific warning about planting near structures.
In Travis County, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension lists Viburnum suspensum under plants to avoid in Zone 1. The county defines that area as the first 30 feet around a structure and directs these plants into Zones 2 or 3. A homeowner following that scheme would therefore place this shrub beyond its closest zone.
Sun City Texas's Firewise Group gives Sandankwa viburnum a low rating for flammability hazard, a measure of the ease of prolonged burning at high heat. This favors the shrub on that group's scale, but it does not answer the county's separate placement instruction.
The shrub belongs to the Viburnaceae family and is recorded as introduced in Florida. Neither detail settles the fire assessment. The available guidance leaves a favorable hazard score alongside a less favorable siting recommendation, so the answer remains mixed.
Form
shrub
Rated in
Austin, Texas; Georgetown, Texas
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Sun City Texas, Georgetown (TX footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2015-01-14
The guide is authored for the Sun City Texas community in Georgetown. FireApproved publishes 142 exact owners only as community-level context. It is an archived HOA exhibit with unknown rating lineage, not a current statewide Texas source or an independent Tier 1 determination.
Travis County, Austin area (TX footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2024-01-16
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension publishes this page through its Travis County horticulture program. FireApproved publishes 56 exact owners and retains the source's zone and warning conditions. This is county/Austin regional context, not a second statewide Texas table or site clearance.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in FL.
Native range
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
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.
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.
Firewise Landscaping: Small trees/Large Shrubs [Travis County Firewise page sections] (with its avoid rating)
Firewise Plant Guide: Shrubs [Sun City plant-table sections] (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.
The table rates Viburnum, Sandankwa — Viburnum suspensum low for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.
“Plants to Avoid for Zone 1 (within 30′ of Structure)”
Listed as Viburnum, Sandankwa — Viburnum suspensum. The page says Zone 1 entries should be restricted to zones 2 or 3; all-zone entries are highly flammable due to volatile oils or growth habit.
