Today's score
Ticks in Kuttawa, KY
Lyon County
High risk
Conditions strongly favor tick activity. Cover up, use repellent, and check carefully, including kids and pets.
Updated July 6, 2026
- Life stage
- Nymphs & adults
- Forest
- 65%
- Tick species
- 5 of 5 here
High tick activity
Ticks are highly active in Kuttawa right now.
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Right now
Latest reading- 73°
- Temperature
- 92%
- Humidity
- 2.1"
- Recent rain
7-day outlook
Risk recalculates daily from the local forecast.
What's active right now
Deer-tick nymphs are at their peak alongside dog-tick adults. Midsummer is the busiest stretch: nymphal deer ticks peak in the woods while American dog-tick adults are active in grass and along trails.
Local tick habitat
Kuttawa is 89% natural land cover (65% forest, plus open and brushy areas) across its 2.19 sq mi, home to about 667 people. That makes it the 1st-most wooded of the 2 towns in Lyon County. Deer ticks live in wooded areas, along trail edges, and in tall grass: the more of that a town has, the more places ticks can quest.
Tick control in Kuttawa, KY
Do I need tick control in Kuttawa?
Tick activity in Kuttawa is high today (67/100), and the town is 89% natural land cover, the wooded and brushy habitat ticks quest from. If kids or pets use the yard, this is when a professional barrier treatment does the most good.
Professional tick control in Kuttawa typically means a barrier treatment along the lawn edge, leaf litter, stone walls, and shady borders where ticks wait for a host, applied two to four times a season by a licensed pest control company. It is the single most effective way to cut tick numbers in the part of the yard your family actually uses.
How much does tick control cost in Kuttawa?
Most homeowners pay about $100 to $200 per visit for professional tick spraying, or roughly $350 to $600 for a full season of barrier treatments, depending on lot size and how wooded the property is. Quotes are free, so it costs nothing to get a real number for your yard.
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Is it tick season in Kuttawa right now?
Yes. Deer-tick nymphs are at their peak alongside dog-tick adults. In Kuttawa, today's risk reads high (67/100). Conditions strongly favor tick activity. Cover up, use repellent, and check carefully, including kids and pets.
Nearby towns
Tick risk is local. Check the towns around you.
Stay ahead of ticks in Kuttawa
The TickZone app (coming soon) alerts you when Kuttawa's risk climbs, so protection happens before the bite.