Snake Bite Statistics by State 2025

Texas

Georgia

Missouri

Alabama

Colorado

Kentucky

West Virginia

California

Florida

Maryland

Nevada

New York

Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Virginia

State	Fatal Snake Bites 2010-2022↓	Fatal Snake Bites 1990-2009	Fatal Snake Bites 1970-1990	Estimated Venomous Snakebites per Year	Estiamted Incidents per 100k Pop
Texas	5	2	1	1,408	14.7
Georgia	4	5	1	530	13.4
Missouri	3			234	5.42
Alabama	2	2	1	208	6.37
Colorado	2			41	2.34
Kentucky	2	3	2	143	4.71
West Virginia	2	1	5	210	11.3
California	1	2		221	1.41
Florida	1	3	2	350	7.07
Maryland	1	1		42	1.35
Nevada	1			7	2.45
New York	1			37	0.22
Oklahoma	1			206	8.85
Pennsylvania	1			64	0.75
South Carolina	1			184	7.72
South Dakota	1			31	4.56
Tennessee	1	2	1	79	2.21
Virginia	1	1		217	5.47
Arizona		3		102	7.83
Arkansas				307	17.2
Connecticut				4	0.16
Delaware				8	1.79
District of Columbia				5	0.65
Idaho				10	1.5
Illinois				35	0.35
Indiana				45	0.97
Iowa				9	0.33
Kansas				115	5.28
Louisiana			1	334	10.3
Maine				0
Massachusetts				2	0.04
Michigan				58	0.74
Minnesota				3	0.09
Mississippi				236	10.8
Montana				38	5.63
Nebraska				46	3.26
New Hampshire				1	0.16
New Jersey				25	0.41
New Mexico			1	71	7.47
North Carolina		1		856	18.8
North Dakota				5	0.79
Ohio		2		46	0.45
Oregon				14	0.79
Rhode Island				0	0.04
Utah				20	2.25
Vermont				0	0.08
Washington				25	0.88
Wisconsin				15	0.38
Wyoming				21	6.36

Data on snake bites are often surprisingly vague. Bites from non-venomous snakes are rarely recorded, and data regarding bites from poisonous snakes are often merged with data on interactions with other toxic/poisonous animals. Additionally, those few studies/sources that do specifically track snake bites often use different methodologies from one another.
As a result of these challenges, data from one source often differ significantly from data from a different source.
State-level breakdowns shown pertain to data year 1959.
Snakebites in the US are highly regional. An analysis of 2016 data found that 82% of snakebites occurred in the South, 11% in the West, 7% in the Midwest, and 1% in the Northeast.
Bites from venomous snakes rarely result in death as long as medical attention is sought. Of 65,695 reported venomous snake exposures from 2006-2015, only 31 proved fatal.
The National Poison Data System recorded the following snakebite totals for the US as a whole during 2021: 2,287 copperheads, 75 coral snakes, 229 cottonmouths, 1184 rattlesnakes, 524 envenomations from unspecified venomous snakes, and 43 from poisonous exotic (pet) snakes.