Snake Bite Statistics by State 2025
Fatal Snake Bites 2010-2022
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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 | |||
 | United States | 31 | 28 | 15 | 6,668 |
- 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.
Sources
- Incidence of Treated Snakebites in the United States - Public Health Reports - National Institute Of Health
- 2021 Annual Report of the National Poison Data System - Clinical Toxicology
- Annual Reports - National Poison Data System
- The "T's" of snakebite injury in the USA: fact or fiction? - BMJ Journals
- Incidence and mortality due to snakebite in the Americas - PubMed 2017
- AAPCC database characterization of native U.S. venomous snake exposures, 2001-2005 - Clinical Toxicology, Vol 47, 2009
- List of fatal snake bites in the United State - Wiki
