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Tick risk in Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Iberville Parish covers 6 towns. CDC reports too few cases here to publish a county Lyme rate, but each town still has a daily score built from local weather, habitat, and season. Pick your town below for today's reading.
Highest and lowest tick risk in Iberville Parish
Peak-season modeled risk. Tick risk is local, even within one county.
At the summer peak, tick risk across Iberville Parish runs from Maringouin (low) at the high end to Rosedale (low) at the low end. The difference is habitat: forest cover across the county ranges from 26% to 43%, and more forest and woodland edge means more places ticks can quest for a host.
- MaringouinLow risk
- Grosse TeteLow risk
- PlaquemineLow risk
- St. GabrielLow risk
- White CastleLow risk
Tick species in Iberville Parish
CDC county surveillance (established or reported)
- Deer tickEstablished
- American dog tickNot established
- Lone star tickNot established
- Gulf Coast tickEstablished
Established in this county for the deer tick, the main Lyme carrier. “Not established” means no CDC surveillance record for Iberville Parish, not that a town is tick free. Source: CDC tick surveillance (ArboNET Tick Module), 2025.
Diseases found in local ticks
No CDC tick-testing records for Iberville Parish. That is a surveillance gap, not a sign these diseases are absent. Lyme and other tickborne illnesses occur across the region.
Tick control in Iberville Parish, LA
Professional tick control across Iberville Parish usually 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, and it matters most in Iberville Parish's more wooded towns.
How much does tick control cost in Iberville Parish?
Most Iberville Parish 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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Common questions about ticks in Iberville Parish
Which towns in Iberville Parish have the highest tick risk?
At the summer peak, Maringouin carries the highest modeled tick risk in Iberville Parish, followed by Grosse Tete, Plaquemine, St. Gabriel, White Castle. Risk tracks how wooded a town is: forest cover across Iberville Parish ranges from 26% to 43%, and the more forest and woodland edge a town has, the more habitat ticks have to quest from. Rosedale sits at the low end. Every town has its own daily score, so check the one nearest you.
What ticks live in Iberville Parish?
CDC surveillance records 2 established tick species in Iberville Parish: Deer tick, Gulf Coast tick. The blacklegged (deer) tick is the main carrier of Lyme disease. "Not established" for a species means there is no CDC surveillance record for the county, not that the tick is absent.
Is Lyme disease common in Iberville Parish?
CDC reports too few cases in Iberville Parish to publish a stable county Lyme rate, which is common in rural or low-population counties, and typical this far south. That does not mean the risk is zero: the lone star tick, not Lyme, is the bigger local concern.
All towns in Iberville Parish
Tick risk is local. Pick the town nearest you.