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Tick risk in Garrett County, Maryland

Garrett County covers 8 towns and carries the 1st-highest tick-borne-disease baseline of Maryland's 22 counties, with a Lyme rate of 301 cases per 100,000 people a year (16th of 1378 counties in the South). CDC surveillance lists Deer tick and American dog tick as established here. Pick your town below for today's score, a 7-day outlook, and what's driving it.

Highest and lowest tick risk in Garrett County

Peak-season modeled risk. Tick risk is local, even within one county.

At the summer peak, tick risk across Garrett County runs from Friendsville (high) at the high end to Grantsville (moderate) at the low end. The difference is habitat: forest cover across the county ranges from 19% to 67%, and more forest and woodland edge means more places ticks can quest for a host.

Tick species in Garrett County

CDC county surveillance (established or reported)

  • Deer tickEstablished
  • American dog tickEstablished
  • Lone star tickNot established
  • Gulf Coast tickReported

Established in this county for the deer tick, the main Lyme carrier. “Not established” means no CDC surveillance record for Garrett County, not that a town is tick free. Source: CDC tick surveillance (ArboNET Tick Module), 2025.

Diseases found in local ticks

Lyme diseaseAnaplasmosisBabesiosisBorrelia miyamotoi (relapsing fever)

Pathogens detected in ticks tested from Garrett County (CDC tick-testing surveillance, 2025). This lists what has been found, not how common it is.

Tick control in Garrett County, MD

Professional tick control across Garrett County 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 Garrett County's more wooded towns.

How much does tick control cost in Garrett County?

Most Garrett County 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 Garrett County

Which towns in Garrett County have the highest tick risk?

At the summer peak, Friendsville carries the highest modeled tick risk in Garrett County, followed by Kitzmiller, Deer Park, Mountain Lake Park, Oakland. Risk tracks how wooded a town is: forest cover across Garrett County ranges from 19% to 67%, and the more forest and woodland edge a town has, the more habitat ticks have to quest from. Grantsville sits at the low end. Every town has its own daily score, so check the one nearest you.

What ticks live in Garrett County?

CDC surveillance records 2 established tick species in Garrett County: Deer tick, American dog tick. The blacklegged (deer) tick is the main carrier of Lyme disease in the Northeast. "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 Garrett County?

Garrett County reports about 301 Lyme cases per 100,000 people a year (U.S. CDC), the 16th-highest of 1378 counties in the South and the 1st-highest of Maryland's 22 counties. Lyme is the dominant blacklegged-tick disease, so TickZone uses this county rate as the disease baseline behind every town's score.

All towns in Garrett County

Tick risk is local. Pick the town nearest you.