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Tick risk in Wabasha County, Minnesota
Wabasha County covers 27 towns. Its CDC Lyme rate of 88 cases per 100,000 people a year ranks in the top 9% of U.S. counties for reported Lyme disease. CDC surveillance lists Deer 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 Wabasha County
Peak-season modeled risk. Tick risk is local, even within one county.
Tick species in Wabasha County
CDC county surveillance (established or reported)
- Deer tickEstablished
- American dog tickReported
- Lone star tickNot established
- Gulf Coast tickNot established
Established in this county for the deer tick, the main Lyme carrier. “Not established” means no CDC surveillance record for Wabasha County, 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 Wabasha County. That is a surveillance gap, not a sign these diseases are absent. Lyme and other tickborne illnesses occur across the region.
Tick control in Wabasha County, MN
Professional tick control across Wabasha 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 Wabasha County's more wooded towns.
How much does tick control cost in Wabasha County?
Most Wabasha 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 Wabasha County
Which towns in Wabasha County have the highest tick risk?
At the summer peak, Millville carries the highest modeled tick risk in Wabasha County, followed by Hammond, Minneiska, Watopa, Glasgow. Risk tracks how wooded a town is: forest cover across Wabasha County ranges from 9% to 72%, and the more forest and woodland edge a town has, the more habitat ticks have to quest from. Elgin sits at the low end. Every town has its own daily score, so check the one nearest you.
What ticks live in Wabasha County?
CDC surveillance records one established tick species in Wabasha County: Deer 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 Wabasha County?
Wabasha County reports about 88 Lyme cases per 100,000 people a year (U.S. CDC), in the top 9% of U.S. counties for reported Lyme disease (the 19th-highest of Minnesota's 87 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 Wabasha County
Tick risk is local. Pick the town nearest you.