This review represents an investigation of fire-resistant plants through the areas of materials and characterization, discussing and exploring the implications of their unique properties in several applications, materials solutions, pollution, and perspectives of these plants.The main goals are identifying promising fire-resistant plants from published research with potential applications in engineering and exploring their potential properties in engineering applications including biomimetics.First, Carrot2, a results search clustering engine was used to create inclusion criteria and categories for examining the past five years of fire-resistant plant research, materials sciencerelated and otherwise.From these papers analyzed nearly half of research was agricultural or environmental science in nature, with topics and applications in chemistry, engineering, materials science, representing less than 10% each.The unique properties and mechanisms of fire-resistant plants can be classified in areas such as plant architecture, microstructure, and constituent materials were discussed.Specifically, silica, trichomes (plant hairs), tissue organization, biopolymers, and indigenous knowledge of plants are discussed towards biomimetics and as inspired structures for