Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Selecting Firewise Shrubs to Reduce Wildfire Risk

This document is FOR272, one of a series of the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date July 2011. Revised September 2015. Reviewed March 2019. Revised August 2023. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication. This factsheet is funded by the National Fire Plan through the Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service.

Annie Hermansen-Báez; science delivery coordinator, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station; Raelene M. Crandall, associate professor, fire ecology, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Wayne C. Zipperer, research forester with the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station; Alan J. Long, professor emeritus, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Anna L. Behm, former research associate, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Dawn McKinstry, WUI Fire Project Coordinator, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station; and Anne Andreu, former research associate, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.