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Plants You DON T Want On Your Property Avoid planting fire prone plants because they can accelerate the spread of wildfire Plants are considered fire prone because of dead materials which accumulate in and around them their high oil or resin content and the low moisture content of their leaves and branches Fire Prone Trees Arborvitae Austrian Pine Cedar Douglas Fir Gambel Oak Pinyon Pine Scotch Pine Scrub Oak Fire Prone Grasses Shrubs and Ground Covers Cheatgrass Buckbrush Fitzer French Broom Juniper Pampas Grass Scotch Broom Spanish Broom Use Fire Resistant Landscaping and Help Reduce Your Risk of Wildfire Fire resistant landscaping can yield a manyfold return of beauty and enjoyment while helping protect your home from wildfire Check your local nursery landscape contractor or county s extension office for advice on fire resistant plants that are suited for your area For a comprehensive list of fire resistant plants go to Colorado State University Extension and download their Fact Sheet on FireWise Plant Materials All plants are flammable under extreme wildfire conditions Appropriate plant spacing pruning and watering can increase a plant s resistance to wildfire Learn more about Fire Resistant Landscaping www rotarywildfireready com fire resistant landscaping Vol 1 2022 Graphics Design by Romberg Designs Plus Take Control of Your Wildfire Risk FIRE RESISTANT LANDSCAPING

Fire Resistant Plant Recommendation Guide During a wildfire everything on your property has the potential to become fuel Fire resistant landscaping is one important step you can take to decrease your risk 0 5 Feet Non Combustible Area From Your Home Create a non combustible 5 feet border around your home Replace flammable mulch with gravel or rock No trees or shrubs in this area Remove all pine needles dead leaves and plants Plantings allowed succulents and perennial groundcover 5 10 Feet From Your Home MULCH Non combustible mulch GRASS GROUND COVER Well maintained and irrigated grass cut to 4 Succulents Annuals Perennial ground covers Perennial flower beds SHRUBS use sparingly Ninebark varieties Bog Birch Rabbit Brush Dogwood varieties Cotoneaster Wax Flower Cinquefoil TREES None recommended Sand Cherry Antelope Bitterbrush Currant varieties Rose Species Spirea varieties Snowberry Lilacs 10 30 Feet From Your Home MULCH Non combustible mulch Screened wood chips or other large organic mulch GRASS GROUND COVER Native grass cut to 4 6 after grass has seeded Succulents and Iceplant species Annuals Perennial flowers Purple or Prairie Coneflower Nodding Onion Snow in Summer Creeping Thyme Yarrow Aster varieties Columbine varieties Geranium varieties Basket of Gold Sage varieties Mariposa Lily Delphinium Blanket Flower Sunflowers Coral Bells Iris varieties Lavender varieties Lupine varieties Poppy Beebalm Primrose SHRUBS all shrubs listed prior as well as the following Kinnikinnick Cotoneaster Adams Needle Highbush Cranberry Russet Golden Currant LittleLeaf Mock Orange Creeping Grape Holly Apache Plum Heath Burkwood Daphne Mahogany varieties Manzanita varieties Boulder Raspberry CONIFERS Ponderosa Pine Colorado Blue Spruce Lodgepole Pine Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir White Fir Bristlecone Pine Engelmann Spruce Limber Pine Note No Conifer limbs within 10 of your home Guidelines on Conifer Trees Remove ladder fuel under Conifer trees ladder fuels are small trees and brush which allow a fire to burn from ground level up into the branches of a larger tree Limb up Conifers prune all tree branches from ground level up to a height of 10 above ground or up to 1 3 the height of the tree whichever is less Crowns should be spaced at least 10 apart Small groups of two or three conifers may be left but leave a minimum of 30 between the crowns of these clumps and surrounding trees 30 Feet or More From Your Home You can use all the plants identified with greater density although you need to maintain a minimum of 10 crown spacing on conifer trees DECIDUOUS TREES use sparingly between 10 and 30 from your home Maple varieties Thinleaf Alder River Birch Hawthorn varieties Flowering Crabapple Flowering Plum Lanceleaf Cottonwood Narrowleaf Cottonwood Quaking Aspen Mountain Ash Serviceberry varieties Mountain Mahogany Filbert Green Ash Honeylocust Western Chokecherry Peachleaf Willow Silver Buffaloberry Crown spacing 10 ft Remove ladder fuels 10 ft Limb up