Tick risk in Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Queen Anne's County covers 7 towns and carries the 8th-highest tick-borne-disease baseline of Maryland's 22 counties, with a Lyme rate of 59 cases per 100,000 people a year (79th of 1378 counties in the South). CDC surveillance lists Deer tick, American dog tick, and Lone star 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 Queen Anne's County
Peak-season modeled risk. Tick risk is local, even within one county.
At the summer peak, tick risk across Queen Anne's County runs from Queen Anne (moderate) at the high end to Sudlersville (moderate) at the low end. The difference is habitat: forest cover across the county ranges from 23% to 53%, and more forest and woodland edge means more places ticks can quest for a host.
- Queen AnneModerate risk
- TemplevilleModerate risk
- CentrevilleModerate risk
- QueenstownModerate risk
- Church HillModerate risk
Tick species in Queen Anne's County
CDC county surveillance (established or reported)
- Deer tickEstablished
- American dog tickEstablished
- Lone star tickEstablished
- Gulf Coast tickReported
Established in this county for the deer tick, the main Lyme carrier. “Not established” means no CDC surveillance record for Queen Anne's County, not that a town is tick free. Source: CDC tick surveillance (ArboNET Tick Module), 2025.
Diseases found in local ticks
Pathogens detected in ticks tested from Queen Anne's County (CDC tick-testing surveillance, 2025). This lists what has been found, not how common it is.
Tick control in Queen Anne's County, MD
Professional tick control across Queen Anne's 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 Queen Anne's County's more wooded towns.
How much does tick control cost in Queen Anne's County?
Most Queen Anne's 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 Queen Anne's County
Which towns in Queen Anne's County have the highest tick risk?
At the summer peak, Queen Anne carries the highest modeled tick risk in Queen Anne's County, followed by Templeville, Centreville, Queenstown, Church Hill. Risk tracks how wooded a town is: forest cover across Queen Anne's County ranges from 23% to 53%, and the more forest and woodland edge a town has, the more habitat ticks have to quest from. Sudlersville sits at the low end. Every town has its own daily score, so check the one nearest you.
What ticks live in Queen Anne's County?
CDC surveillance records 3 established tick species in Queen Anne's County: Deer tick, American dog tick, Lone star 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 Queen Anne's County?
Queen Anne's County reports about 59 Lyme cases per 100,000 people a year (U.S. CDC), the 79th-highest of 1378 counties in the South and the 8th-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 Queen Anne's County
Tick risk is local. Pick the town nearest you.