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Originally Posted by herbaru
Pine straw is not recommended if you have a vinyl home. I live in Raleigh and we have had a few fires spread very fast because of pine straw. We now have laws on multi family homes. I know other towns nearby have laws as well. If you google pine straw fires you will find lots on news articles. Here is a link to the Town of Cary NC Fire Departments website. It talks about the fire rate spread of different mulches.
http://www.townofcary.org/Departments/Fire/clm.htm
My mulch will be rocks when I move to TV. |
That is a very good point and I had forgotten how volatile pine straw is. We had a fire in our neighborhood due to a spark hitting pinestraw and it melted a lot of siding on a neighbors house.